The desire to secede isn't as crazy (or as odd) as it might first appear.
Four of the country's six provinces, which support Mr Ratsiraka, are threatening to secede.
Now the MILF wants to secede and make resource-rich Mindanao a separate Islamic republic.
Nor could it claim a right to secede anyway if the talks bogged down.
If ethnic groups wish to secede, as much as possible we should let them.
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The southerners were eventually promised the right to secede, which Darfur's rebels want too.
Many Kurds, though sure to vote yes, are cross that the document includes no right to secede.
Nobody says that the English must threaten to secede, as the Scots did before they got their Parliament.
If no substantial progress towards a peace deal is achieved by April, the party should secede, he says.
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Jimbo wants his state to secede from the United States because a black man has been reelected president.
The most popular petition is for Texas to secede from the Union (109, 400 signatures at press time).
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Number 29 (21, 562 signatures) calls for deporting anyone who signed a petition for their state to secede.
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But Jones will almost certainly run smack into a lawsuit if he attempts to secede on the merchandise issue.
Mr Karadzic declared that Serb parts of Bosnia would secede and that eventually they would join a Greater Serbia.
Jimbo petitions for his apartment to secede from his building and serves the appropriate papers to the new super.
The accord provided for a high degree of autonomy for the south, and an option for it to secede.
All this has left most Papuans at best distrustful of Jakarta and more often wanting to secede from Indonesia.
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And Milorad Dodik, the RS leader, threatens to secede unless it is left free to be run as a quasi-state.
It was western nations which had really started the war, by encouraging Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia to secede from Yugoslavia.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tbilisi accused them of wanting to secede and Georgian troops sacked Sukhumi in 1992.
By all accounts, they will soon secede from the Arab, Islamic country and form an independent African, Christian and animist state.
And they are willing to secede the entire political sphere of life to the Kremlin so long as they leave them alone.
In so doing, they are echoing the behaviour of the Canadian government in the face of repeated attempts by Quebec to secede.
Neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia, the report says, had the right to secede from Georgia and Russia's recognition of their independence was illegal.
But the Sudanese now -- the southern Sudanese now have an option where they may be seeking to secede from all of Sudan.
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation.
There was no question about who would take the oath of office (except in those states that were ready to secede from the Union).
Given an opportunity to determine their future as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, falsely promised that they would be they would probably vote to secede.
Lord Irvine says that the Scottish Parliament has no legal right to hold such a referendum, let alone to secede on the strength of one.
There was no question as to who should take the oath of office (except in those states that were ready to secede from the Union).
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