This must be the reason why he didn't pay any attention to the other splinter groups during the last year.

In this and many related splinter groups there are over 200,000 members.

Now they are working with a splinter group within the Iranian military.

There are also some minor splinter groups using the name.

"We're not going to run around dealing with all the splinter groups of doctors."

There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.

The splinter group received no materials for military operations, the statement said.

But since peace talks began 19 months ago, most of the killing has been done by splinter groups.

However, a splinter group soon formed with quite different intentions.

But isn't it just as likely some kind of splinter group?

This decision caused some criticism from party ranks and led to the formation of some minor breakaway factions.

Talk of reform can even be heard from radical breakaway Palestinian factions, still based here despite government denials.

He previously served as head of the breakaway faction, Justice for the Elderly.

He had been endorsed by a smaller breakaway faction.

Groups like these always suffer rifts and breakaway factions.

In recent months, though, the camps here have come under attack by a breakaway faction of the ethnic Karen insurgency that governs them.

General Lister formed a breakaway faction, which reconciled with the mainstream party only in 1986.

Those in the breakaway faction, they said, are mostly ethnic Pashtuns.

The breakaway factions were much more bizarre than ever before, but people had grown used to this, and their horror had lessened.

Two breakaway factions were formed which condemned the purge.