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He is wrestling with a growing secessionist movement in the oil-rich province of Alberta.

L.A.’s nonchalant highhandedness can gall today as it did 101 years ago when it precipitated what secessionists hailed as the “day of deliverance” from the “imperial county.”

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Such efforts eventually pushed the high representative to take action and annul the secessionist legislation.

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Cameroon is also in the grips of a secessionist war that has killed more than 6,000 people in the west of the country.

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Those familiar with Mr Dodik’s regular secessionist outbursts rolled their eyes.

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