Georgian troops regularly clash with separatist fighters in the break-away regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
But Georgia accuses Russia of using its soldiers to promote instability by backing two separatist regions.
The Bugtis, another influential tribe, also have leaders on both sides of the separatist debate.
The attack was claimed by an armed separatist group, the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF).
Georgia lost control of two separatist regions after fighting two disastrous wars in the 1990s.
If Russia had really wanted to resolve the separatist conflicts in Georgia, it had opportunities.
Separatist conflicts, mutinies, and warlords have bedeviled Georgia since the breakup of the USSR.
Much of Angola's oil wealth lies in Cabinda province, where a decades-long separatist conflict simmers.
Three top leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference, the main separatist grouping, are in jail.
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Georgia last week launched a military incursion into South Ossetia to rout separatist rebels.
It has channels open to the separatist Hurriyat Council but none appear to lead anywhere.
Baluchistan, blighted by a low-level separatist insurgency, has been able to increase spending by only 20-30%.
The separatist Tamil Tigers, or LTTE, are a proscribed terrorist organisation in many capitals.
The separatist Northern League has made electoral inroads in Italy's north, but may now have peaked.
Balochistan is plagued by both a separatist rebellion and sectarian infighting between Sunnis and Shias.
Even Quebec's separatist government accepts that the time is not right for another referendum.
The separatist Northern League, which has now split, would also be a big loser.
Yet a no to his tax demands now would boost separatist sentiment further, Mr Mas warns.
This helped to revive support for the separatist Bloc, which had seemed to be floundering.
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Although France's various separatist groups will doubt Parisian sincerity, the government says it does.
The separatist Northern League's Umberto Bossi gave a most bizarrely joyful explanation for the reformers' setback.
It would force separatist tribalism upon the most racially integrated state in the world.
Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels had audaciously attacked the airport and the neighbouring air-force base.
Even before the first round, the talks had caused a split in separatist ranks.
The separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference said in a statement that India had inflated the figures.
He has also travelled repeatedly to Chechnya, where a bitter war continues unabated between separatist rebels and Russian troops.
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The Kurdish separatist group, the PKK, has also targetted the oil pipeline from Iraq.
Under President Suharto, those armed forces brutally suppressed a separatist campaign by local rebels.
Than Shwe had said Yangon was working to end hostilities with minority separatist groups.
The Yemeni government said its forces had also inflicted losses on separatist and al-Qaeda-linked rebels elsewhere.
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