secessionist

In the tweet, Buhari seemed to threaten violent retaliation against a southeastern secessionist group’s alleged recent attacks on government facilities and personnel.

Buhari, who was the country’s Head of State in the 1980s and served in the army against secessionists, said young Nigerians in the country’s southeastern part were too young to remember the horrible events that occurred during the war.

Russia has been supporting the secessionists movements in Donetsk and Luhansk, where 14,000-plus people have died in the fighting to date.

Better for Russia to annex Venice, Catalonia or Alaska (all of which have well-publicized if improbable secessionist movements).

If the flames of separatism in Punjab seemed to be simmering, the secessionist strife in Kashmir was just peaking.

That said, the secessionist impulse was and remains a political loser.

Earlier, Hunter had been a leader in the League of the South, a secessionist organization.

In fact, there are serious reasons why the North itself should take the lead in a secessionist movement.

I am, I hope, too good a patriot to be a secessionist, much less a rebel.

The federal system established in 1789 had to fight the secessionist efforts of the confederated slave-holding states.

But every member of this church, he added, must be loyal, and therefore no secessionist could join.

A Douglas Democrat, a Douglas elector, and a strong secessionist, who had deserted to the enemy.

Houston and Pryor (see Brewer, pp. 324, 326) were neither Union nor secessionist, but constitutional.