In response Response to the incident , former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi provided Supply military aid Assistance to the secessionist group Moro National Liberation Front .

War Military_operation broke out Process_start in April 1861 when secessionist forces Causation attacked Attack Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated Change_of_leadership as the President of the United States .

As the war progressed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale , Armenia and Azerbaijan , both former Soviet Republics , entangled Participation themselves in protracted Change_event_time , undeclared mountain warfare Hostile_encounter in the mountainous heights of Karabakh as Azerbaijan attempted to curb Hindering the secessionist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh .

Initially the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) sought to preserve Preserving the unity of the whole of Yugoslavia by crushing Destroying the secessionist governments , but it increasingly came under the influence of the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević , which evoked Causation Serbian nationalist rhetoric and was willing to use Using the Yugoslav cause to preserve Preserving the unity of Serbs in one state .

The Ten Days ' Campaign ( , ) was a failed military expedition Self_motion by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands against the secessionist Kingdom of Belgium between 2 and 12 August 1831 .

The Shifta War ( 1963–1967 ) was a secessionist conflict Hostile_encounter in which ethnic Somalis in the Northern Frontier District ( NFD ) of Kenya ( a region that is and has historically been almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis ) attempted to secede from Kenya join with their fellow Somalis in a Greater Somalia .

However , the violence Violence in Kenya deteriorated Change into disorganised banditry , with occasional episodes of secessionist agitation , for the next several decades .