The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) was the largest pro-independence militant group but it gave up the armed struggle in 1994 and has since been active on the political front.
The party was founded in 1958 as a nationalist, pro-independence group in the Belgian Congo.
He became an associate of King Norodom Sihanouk, and by the late 1940s, when he set up a right-wing, monarchist, pro-independence political group, was becoming increasingly involved in the developing Cambodian political scene.
In the 1980s, the Moviment de Defensa de la Terra (MDT) became the major pro-independence political group but this too became divided by the end of the decade.
Broadly speaking, pro-independence groups have traditionally expressed a greater support for the reintegrationist norm, while others have adopted the isolationist.
Political terrorism by anti-American, pro-independence groups has generally been directed against government and military installations or personnel in Puerto Rico, not average citizens or tourists.
The new party succeeded in winning 22 parliamentary seats, 13 of those with the support of Sajudis, which is not a formal political party but an umbrella organization of pro-independence grass-roots groups.
However, many Palestinians were jailed for being members of what the Jordanian government regarded as illegal political parties, including the Palestine Communist Party and other socialist and pro-independence groups.
A Timor Primer Immediately after East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia on Aug. 30, militia groups supported by Indonesian armed forces began attacking pro-independence groups.
Many pro-independence groups based themselves in the mountains.