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• n  a doctrine that maintains the right of secession

• New Delhi's hope that elections would quell secessionism backfire when soldiers bully scared citizens into voting.
• Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians might be going their own way, but I'd long assumed that once the epidemic of secessionism had run its course, the Ukrainians would remain .
• A wave of secessionism might then follow, with the probability of murderous ethnic strife in its wake.

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• Ashok Kumar in AFP
  We object to this open, blatant, glorification of violence and secessionism,Ashok Kumar, consul general of India to this western Canadian metropolis, told AFP Thursday.
• P Chidambaram in Thaindian.com (blog)
  Attempts to support separatist moves in Sri Lanka, backing (Tamil Tiger Chief Vellupillai) Prabhakaran and the use of that cause to foment secessionism in India will not help the Tamil minority or solve their problems,Chidambaram added.