Can you name the territories with active or recently active secessionist movements? by Sesel

Can you name the territories with active or recently active secessionist movements?

created by Sesel

Enter a territory in the box below
Correctly named territories will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Not including dependencies or regions with de facto independence such as Taiwan or Abkhazia
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Now part of	Would-be country	Organizations
Senegal		MFDC
Yemen
Iraq/Turkey/Iran/Syria		KDP, PUK
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angola		FLEC
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Pakistan/Iran
Russia		CRI
Spain/France		ETA
Equatorial Guinea		MAIB
Comoros
Indonesia		OPM
France		FLNC
Cameroon		SCNC
Antigua and Barbuda

Now part of	Would-be country	Organizations
Belgium		VB
Sri Lanka		LTTE
Ethiopia		OLF
Namibia
France
Japan
Afghanistan/Pakistan		Afghan Mellat
Canada		BQ, PQ
Spain/France/Andorra		ERC
West Bank/Gaza Strip		PLO
United Kingdom		SNP, SSP
Papua New Guinea		BRA
China
India/Pakistan/China		JKLF
Pakistan

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Created Dec 7, 2009 in Geography
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	RS89:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	1 point
	Please provide a source.

	RS89:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	-1 points
	And I believe Puerto Rico has a secessionist movement.

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	1 point
	Read the note: "Not including dependencies." The source is information accreted over many years.

	HolgerDanske:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:29 GMT	2 points
	I think Ogaden should be accepted for Ethiopia

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:39 GMT	1 point
	@HolgerDanske: Yes, I considered putting it in as a separate entry, but I tried my best to have just one movement per country. Otherwise India alone would probably have a couple of dozen entries. The organization listed for Ethiopia is OLF, which clearly makes the correct answer Oromia.

	markswallis:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:49 GMT	1 point
	How about Xinjiang province in China? Plenty of riots and revolting going on there now.

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 06:07 GMT	2 points
	See comment above. I tried to list only one movement for each country concerned, with a few transnational exceptions.

	amp2006:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 08:31 GMT	2 points
	I'm interested in reading more, could you put a source?

	Auguste:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 10:23 GMT	3 points
	Corsican independentists are for more important than brittany's.

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 12:49 GMT	0 points
	It is not my source, but the Wikipedia article "List of active autonomist and secessionist movements" probably lists all of the ones I used.

	elnok:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	1 point
	Seriously, how about Texas? (At least according to its governor...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Secession_Movement#The_Modern_Movement

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:03 GMT	2 points
	Hehe, don't get me wrong, there certainly is an independence movement in Texas, but it's very marginalized (sarcastic opposition parties notwithstanding). Alaska's secessionist movement would be a much better choice imho. You come up with very interesting quizzes, but they'd be much stronger if you actually used a source.

	Spl89:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:44 GMT	1 point
	Somaliland in Somalia is a good candidate for this quiz, it declared independance from Somalia in 1991 and has been autonomous since then.

	Treemeister:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	1 point
	Padania, Vermont, Alaska, Corsica

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:12 GMT	1 point
	@Spl89: As the note says, I did not include areas that are de facto independent.

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:14 GMT	1 point
	@TreehuggnCowgirl: I listed a place earlier in the comments where the information can probably be confirmed. I have informally studied topics like this for years, so I can't provide a single source.

	RS89:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:47 GMT	0 points
	@Sesel: In order for a Sporcle quiz to be valid, a source is needed. "information accreted over many years" is not a valid source.

	Handrejka:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:57 GMT	1 point
	Cornwall should possibly be included even if only as a bonus. Even though it's viewed as something of a joke by the rest of the UK Cornish sepratists still exist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2010217.ece

	zzyzx501:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	1 point
	I randomly threw out "Catalania"...I had no idea I was that close to getting one more.

	Sesel:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	1 point
	@RS89: Too bad, so sad.

	anarresti:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 09:54 GMT	1 point
	Good, informative quiz with plenty of allowance for alternative answers

	orinj:	Dec 23rd, 2010 at 21:20 GMT	1 point
	No Transinistria? Nagorno Karabakh? Northern Cyprus? Western Sahara?