It can challenge the media monopoly by the warlords who foment tribal hatreds.

His death set off a centuries-old tribal hatred between the minority Tutsi ethnic group and the majority Hutus.

In the past recent years the Ivory Coast has seen a resurgence in ethnic tribal hatred and religious intolerance.

There is no such thing as "ancient tribal hatred."

Mr. Moi has blamed the violence on the opposition, saying leaders had stirred up tribal hatreds.

Yet there is something deeper even than historic horrors and tribal hatreds in all this.

We still have ethnic problems that can explode at any moment, for example, and when a journalist incites tribal hatred, it is better to put him in jail.

It's unleashed a Pandora's box of tribal hatreds that may take generations to heal.

But freed Georgia was a poor land riven by tribal hatreds and dependent on Russia for energy and jobs.

To see the opera or the film otherwise, it seems to me, is to be swept up in the very tribal hatreds the opera so eloquently deplores.