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Separatist rebellion-based civil wars

  • War in DonbasOn the 12th of April 2014, a heavily armed unit led by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized the town of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine.
  • Second Chechen WarIn February 1944, the Soviet Union ordered the entire Chechen people to leave their homes. They were forced onto trains and sent to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan…
  • American Civil WarOn the 12th of April 1861, Confederate forces fired the first of 4,000 shells at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Congo CrisisKing Leopold II of Belgium created the Congo Free State in 1885, establishing a personal colony that later became the Belgian Congo.
  • The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
  • First Chechen WarIn 1785, Sheikh Mansur united North Caucasian nations to repel Russian invasion. This early resistance set a precedent for future conflicts over the next two…