[noun] [C]Twenty Punjab villagers kidnapped by Sikh separatists on Friday have been released unharmed.There is resentful talk about how "women's centres have been taken over by radical separatists".It is difficult to establish how much of the Kurdish population sympathises with the separatist movements.
SEPARATIST
Meaning of SEPARATIST in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012