The GCs and TCs can then enjoy their own mini-states, as functional as now, each behind an agreed new border.

He claims she expressed a desire for South Africa to return to a "pre-1910" position, with a white "mini-state" partitioned from neighbouring majority black states.

And from his testimony, the proposed mini-state appears to be a project with many ambitious goals, which involves the efforts of diplomats, intelligence officers and military commanders.

According to the reports, Praljak was originally sentenced in 2013 for his involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat mini-state in Bosnia in the early 1990s

"Hizbullah has used this government to consolidate its project of a mini-state. It wanted to use it as a tool to extend its control over the state and its decisions", he added.

British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond said Tuesday that Russia may try to carve out an Alawite mini-state in Syria for its ally Bashar Al-Assad by bombing the opposition instead of fighting the "Islamic State" (IS) militants.

It was confirmed in the first week of July that MB's Gaza unit Hamas and Israel were secretly and indirectly negotiating establishment of a Palestinian mini-state in the Gaza Strip - taking advantage of the Sissi-MB war's escalation - and thus exposing the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah (the chief rival of Hamas) and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leadership in the occupied West Bank to a potential war with the Jewish state.