His best bet is to dump the left-wing Catalan separatists in favour of their moderate rivals, Convergence and Union (CiU).
Southern separatists, meanwhile, tend to see the strife in distant Sana 'a as a power struggle between northern warlords.
Whether this was an order to shoot all the separatists or all the distinguished prisoners, or both, was not clear to Berger, but apparently to this simple man it meant the whole lot.
Papua, a treasure-house of mineral and timber resources, is more of a threat to Indonesia's international reputation. Forlorn separatists there are still locked up for unfurling flags.
It was risky to devolve more powers to the Catalans, and even more so to talk to the Basque separatists, ETA.
The campaign against the separatists has been growing more intense, with the government forces claiming that the Tigers will be defeated next year.
On June 17th Mr Singh suggested he was willing to reopen talks with the separatists.
The army has been attacked by separatists.
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