List of active separatist movements in Asia
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This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Asia. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism. What is and is not considered an autonomist or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria:
- They are active movements with current, active members.
- They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
- They are the citizen/peoples of the conflict area and not comes from other country.
Under each region listed is one or more of the following:
- De facto state: for regions with a de facto polity
- Proposed state: proposed name for a seceding or anticipated sovereign state
- Proposed autonomous area: for movements toward greater autonomy for an area but not outright secession
- De facto autonomous government: for governments with de facto autonomous control over a region
- Government-in-exile: for a government based outside of the region in question, with or without control
- Political party (or parties): for political parties involved in a political system to push for autonomy or secession
- Militant organisation(s): for armed organisations or insurgencies
- Advocacy group(s): for nonviolent, non-electoral, participatory entities
Afghanistan
Badakhshan Province near the Wakhan Corridor
- Proposed autonomous area: United Badakhshan Peoples Republic[1]
Burma/Myanmar
- Proposed state: Arakan Federation
- Advocacy group: Arakan Independence Alliance
- Proposed state: Republic of Zo Asia
- Militant organisation: Chin National Front (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state: Kachinland
- Political party: Kachin National Organization
- Proposed state: Republic of Kawthoolei
- Militant organisation: Karen National Liberation Army
- Advocacy group: Karen National Union
- Proposed state: United Karenni Independent States
- Militant organisation: Karenni Army
- Advocacy group: Karenni National Progressive Party (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Government-in-exile: Karenni Provisional Government
- Proposed state: Kukiland
- Militant organisation: Kuki National Army
- Advocacy group: Kuki National Organisation
- Proposed state: Mon State
- Political party: New Mon State Party
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- Proposed state: Nagalim or Peoples' Republic of Nagaland
- Militant organisation: National Socialist Council of Nagaland (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Government-in-exile: Government of the People's Republic of Nagaland
- Proposed state: Northern Arakan State of Arakan Federation File:Rohingya nationality flag.png
- Advocacy group: Arakan Rohingya National Organization
Shan (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state: Federated Shan States
- Political party: Shan Democratic Union
- Militant organisation: Shan State Army
- Advocacy group: Restoration Council of Shan State
- Government in exile: Interim Government of Federated Shan States[2]
- Proposed state: Wa State
- Political party: United Wa State Party
- Militant organisation: United Wa State Army
- Proposed state: Republic of Zogam or Federated State of Zomi
- Political parties: Zomi National Congress, Zomi Reunification Organization
- Militant organisations: Zomi National Front/Army, Zomi Revolutionary Army,
- Advocacy group: Global Zomi Alliance
- Government in exile: Republic of Zogam
China
The 
People's Republic of China and the 
Republic of China insist sole legitimacy of China against each other. Practically, the former is administering Mainland China and the two special administrative regions of 
Hong Kong and 
Macau and the latter is administering the Taiwan area.
Mainland China
- Inner Mongolia
- Proposed state: Republic of South Mongol
- Political parties: Inner Mongolian People's Party (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization), Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance,[3] Mongolian Liberal Union Party[4]
- Proposed state: Republic of South Mongol
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Proposed state:
Tibet
- Government-in-exile: Lobsang Sangay, head of the Tibetan Government in Exile[5] (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Political parties: International Tibet Independence Movement, National Democratic Party of Tibet[6]
- Advocacy group: Students for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Youth Congress, International Campaign for Tibet
- Proposed state:
- Xinjiang
- Proposed state:
East Turkestan
- Political parties: Uyghurstan Independence Movement
- Militant organisations: East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Uyghurstan National Front
- Advocacy groups: World Uyghur Congress (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state:
Special administrative regions
- Hong Kong
- Proposed state: Republic of Hong Kong
- Advocacy group: Hong Konger Front
- Proposed state: Republic of Hong Kong
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Taiwan area
- Proposed state:
Republic of Taiwan
- Political parties: Pan-Green Coalition (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taiwan Independence Party)
In perspective of the laws of the Republic of China, the Taiwan independence movement is considered as secessionism, but practically, the movement seeks to replace the ROC with the Republic of Taiwan because Taiwan area is the only practical region administered by the ROC.
In perspective of the laws of the People's Republic of China, the Taiwan indepndence movement is considered as secessionism, too because the PRC considers the Taiwan area as its integral part.
India
- Proposed autonomous area: Teola Country[7]
- Militant organisation: Arunachal Dragon Force
- Proposed autonomous area: Hajong Chakma Homeland
- Political organisation: All Hajong Chakma Homeland Movement
- Proposed state: Bodoland
- Militant organisation: United Liberation Front of Assam, Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam,[8] National Democratic Front
Jammu and Kashmir (occupied/disputed area of the Kashmir valley only)
- Proposed state: Independent United State of Kashmir, or United Jammu and Kashmir
- Political organisations: All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
- Militant organisations: Lashkar-e-Toiba, Harkat-ul-mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad
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- Proposed state: Republic of Manipur
- Proposed state: Meghalaya
- Proposed state: Zozam
- Militant organisations: Zomi Revolutionary Organization, Mizoram Farmers Liberation Force
- Proposed state: Nagalim or People's Republic of Nagaland
- Government-in-exile: Government of the People's Republic of Nagaland
- Militant organisation: National Socialist Council of Nagaland
- Proposed state: Khalistan
- Political organisations: Dal Khalsa, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)
- Militant organisations: Babbar Khalsa, Khalistan Commando Force
- Proposed state: Tripura
- Proposed autonomous area: Republic of Tamil Nation
- Political organisation: Tamil Thesa Pothuvudaimai Katchi[10]
Indonesia
Indonesia is a transcontinental country. See also List of active separatist movements in Oceania#Indonesia
- Proposed state: Republic of Aceh
- Proposed state: Kalimantan Borneo
- Pressure groups: Kalimantan Borneo Liberation Front
- Proposed state: Gerakan Kemerdekaan Minahasa
- Proposed state: Riau
- Proposed state: South Moluccas
- Government-in-exile: Republik Maluku Selatan (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Advocacy group: Maluku Sovereignty Front
- Proposed state: West Papua
- Militant organisation: Free Papua Movement
- Government-in-exile: West Papuan Government in exile[14][15]
Iran
- Proposed state: South Azerbaijan
or 
Azerbaijan
- Political party: CAMAH (South Azerbaijan National Liberation Movement), a Baku-based separatist organisation that advocates for the separation of Iranian Azerbaijan from Iran and unification with the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to them, the predominantly ethnic Persian provinces of Hamadan, Qazvin and Karaj and the whole of the ethnically mixed province of West Azerbaijan are parts of Azerbaijan.[16]
- Proposed state: South Turkmenistan
or 
Turkmenistan
- Political party: Turkmen-Sahra Liberation Organization
- Pan-Turkism party
- Militant organisations: Al-Ahwaz Arab People's Democratic Popular Front, Ahwaz Arab Renaissance Party, Ahwaz Liberation Organisation
- Advocacy group: Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state: Kurdistan[18]
- Political parties: Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Militant organisations: Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, Komalah
Sistan and Baluchestan Province
- Proposed state: Balochistan File:Flag of the Balochistan Liberation Army.svg
- Political party: Balochistan People's Party
- Militant organisations: Jundallah (Iran)
Iraq
- Proposed state: Assyria
- Political parties: Assyrian Democratic Movement, Assyria Liberation Party
- Militant organisations: Zowaa, Qaraqosh Protection Committee
- Advocacy group: Assyrian General Conference, Assyria Council of Europe
- Proposed state: Kurdistan
- Political parties: Kurdistan Independence Movement (K.I.M.), Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
Turkmeneli (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state: Turkmeneli
- Political party: Iraqi Turkmen Front
Israel
- Proposed state: State of Judea
- De facto autonomous government: Palestinian National Authority
- De facto/De jure state:
State of Palestine - Political parties: Hamas, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, Palestine Liberation Front, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestine Liberation Organisation[19][20]
- Militant organisations: al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Tanzim, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
Japan
- Ainu people in Hokkaido[21][22]
- Proposed state: File:Ainu Flag.jpg Republic of Ainu
- Political group : Ainu independence movement
- Ryukyuan people in Okinawa
- Proposed state:
Republic of Ryūkyū
- Political parties: Kariyushi Club (Formerly, Ryukyu Independence Party)
- Political groups: Ryukyu independence movement
- Note: The supporters of the movement want the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, former part of the defunct Ryukyu Kingdom until 1609, to be part of independent Ryukyu. See also Invasion of Ryukyu.
Laos
- Proposed state: Hmong ChaoFa Federated State
- Member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Nepal
Madheshi people in the southern strip have occasionally voiced for independence from Nepal. The claims are a result of a long standing history of discrimination against them.
- Proposed state: Republic of Madheshstan
- Political group: AIM Madeshstan, Alliance of Madheshi people[23]
Pakistan
- Proposed state: Balochistan File:Flag of the Balochistan Liberation Army.svg
- Political party: Baloch National Movement, Baloch Republican Party (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Militant organisations: Baloch Liberation Army, Baloch Liberation Front, Baloch Republican Army
- Proposed state: Republic of Gilgit Baltistan
- Political party: Gilgit Baltistan United Movement
- Proposed state: Pashtunistan
- Political Party: Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz
- Advocacy group: World Sindhi Institute (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Militant Organisations: Sindhudesh Liberation Army
- Proposed state: Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
- Military movement: Taliban
- Proposed state: Sindhudesh File:JSMM Flag.jpg
- East Pakistan by Sindhi PeopleSice 1972.
- Leader Jeay Sindh Mahaz, G. M. Syed)
- Political Party: Sindh United Party
- Militant Organisations: Sindhudesh Liberation Army
- Proposed state: Jammu & Kashmir
- Military movement: JKLF
Philippines
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
- Proposed autonomous area: Bangsamoro[25] File:Flag of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.png
- Including the cities of Cotabato City, Isabela, Basilan and the municipalities of Baloi, Munai, Nunungan, Pantar, Tagoloan and Tangcal in Lanao del Norte and certain barangays from Kabacan, Carmen, Aleosan, Pigkawayan, Pikit and Midsayap municipalities in Cotabato).[26]
- Militant organisation: Moro Islamic Liberation Front[27](member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Proposed state: Bangsamoro Republik
/ Federal Republic of Mindanao 
- Political party: Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement[27]
- Militant organisation: Moro National Liberation Front, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters[27]
- Advocacy group: Mindanao Independence Movement
Cordillera Administrative Region
- Proposed autonomous area: Cordillera Autonomous Region[28]
Russia
- Proposed state:
Sakha Republic
- Political party: Sakha-Amuk
Siberia (North Asia)
- Proposed state: Siberian Republic
- Political party: Party of Siberian Liberation
- Proposed state:
Tuva
- Political parties: People's Party of Sovereign Tuva, People's Front "Free Tuva"
Sri Lanka
- Proposed state:
Tamil Eelam
- Political party: Tamil National Alliance (autonomy within Sri Lanka)
- Militant organisation: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (No longer active in Sri Lanka)
- Advocacy groups: Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, Global Tamil Forum
- Government in exile: Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam[29]
Syria
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
- Proposed state:
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Political parties: Majlish Shura al Mujahedeen
- Proposed state:
Kurdistan - Political party: Democratic Union Party
- Militant organisation: People's Defence Units
- Political Movement: Democratic Confederlism, Democratic Socialism, Socialist Feminism, Ecosocialism
- De facto state: Rojava, West Kurdistan
- Proposed state:
Alawite State
Druze people in Syria.
- Proposed state:
Druze state
Tajikistan
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
- Proposed state: United Badakhshan Peoples Republic[1]
- Political party: Lali Badakhshon[1]
Thailand
- Proposed state: Greater Patani State (Negara Patani Raya)[30] or
Malaysia
- Militant organisation: Patani United Liberation Organization
Turkey
- Kurdistan[31]
- Ethnic group: Kurdish people
- Political parties: Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
- Militant organisations: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), Democrat Party of Kurdistan/North (PDK/Bakur), Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan (PŞK), Communist Party of Kurdistan (KKP)
Turkmenistan
- The province of Xorazm located in Uzbekistan, also including the province of Dashoguz in Turkmenistan.
Uzbekistan
- Proposed state:
Karakalpakstan
- Advocacy group: Free Karakalpakstan National Revival Party[32]
- The province of Xorazm located in Uzbekistan, also including the province of Dashoguz in Turkmenistan.
Vietnam
- Proposed autonomous area: Champa
- Advocacy group: International Office of Champa (IOC)[33]
- Militant organisation: Front de Libération du Champa (FLC), part of United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), now defunct
- Proposed autonomous area: Tây Nguyên
- Advocacy group: Montagnard Foundation, Inc.[34] (member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
- Militant organisation: Front de Libération des Hauts Plateaux (FLHP), part of United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), now defunct
- Proposed autonomous area: Cochinchina
- Advocacy group: Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF)[35]
- Militant organisation: Front de Libération du Kampuchea Krom (FLKK), part of United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FURLO), now defunct
Yemen
- Proposed state:
South Yemen[36]
- Political party: South Yemen Movement
See also
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