Others call it the product of age old ethnic hatreds.

Nationalist hatreds pitting Serbs against Croats, religious hatreds pitting Orthodox Christians against Catholics, and both of them against Muslims, is something we felt Europe had outgrown.

Men do not easily forget years of slaughter and burning and pillage, and deep and bitter hatreds.

This act of attacking and annihilating an Arab village was deliberately undertaken by SPLA to fan ethnic hatreds and atrocities.

We are still confronted by hatreds of all kinds, by a polluted world, by natural disasters, by illiteracy and by peoples suffering from hunger and disease.

Our sacred mission is to build a new world for our children more democratic, more prosperous, more free of ancient hatreds and modern means of destruction.

The consequences of their leadership became manifest only later, as an aggrieved nation s people turned against each other in their deep political and moral divisions and hatreds.

He rose above religious hatreds... and called upon all Spaniards, whether Christian or Moor... to face a common enemy who threatened to destroy their land of Spain.

He was astounded at the phenomenon we've been considering that people can achieve extraordinary heights in science, the arts and human enterprise, yet they also are full of anger, hypocrisy and have and self hatreds.

In particular, during the past 12 months we have witnessed with horror the re emergence of hatreds, barbarism and episodes of ethnic cleansing that we thought had been consigned for ever to the saddest and blackest pages of history.

Every man and woman should not only eschew tribal, religious, political and ideological hatreds, but should also contribute individually and collectively to the campaign against hunger, disease, ignorance and in favour of the implementation of the ideal of shared welfare.

It would be hard for Americans, who are neither very good at soccer, nor cursed by great historical hatreds, to share the joy of the Dutch, say, when the Germans were defeated in 1988, or that of the Koreans when they defeat Japan.

One lesson of Sadat s initiative is that in protracted conflicts where deep emotions and historical hatreds are involved, when almost every conceivable diplomatic formula has been tried and failed, the shock of a visionary, generous, and imaginative step can open new paths.

Venezuela welcomes the Washington agreement between Israel and the PLO, and will work within the framework of the United Nations to achieve a body of measures and resolutions that will help to erase the hatreds of a past that is still too close.

Even as we meet here, thousands are dying, victims of racism, xenophobia, fratricidal wars, hatreds which have fed on themselves for centuries, territorial disputes, or the simple and terrible inability of mankind to provide everyone with that which all are promised freedom and equal opportunity.

So, in the opening days of 2009, a visionary president stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and said, We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve, that, as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

So, in the opening days of 2009, a visionary president stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and said, We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve, that, as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

The ideology of human rights and its corollary, democracy in the management of public affairs, have taken the place of violent, repressive and exclusionary measures to such a degree that the people of Burundi have gradually come to realize that in order to solve their problems they must turn to a democracy that transcends differences, divisions and hatreds.