Apartheid used tribalism as the basis of its "divide-and-rule" homeland policies.

南非种族隔离制将部落制作为它对国土“分而治之”的政策基础。

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That would be playing Gaddafi's own divide-and-rule game after he is gone.

那将是在卡扎菲离去后继续玩他的划界而治的游戏。

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Is it a trick, an astute divide-and-rule tactic used repeatedly by the regime?

它是一个把戏？一个精明的分而治之的策略？

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In any event, the regime has long relied on divide-and-rule tactics.

ECONOMIST: Revolt and repression in Syria

In the 20th, the divide-and-rule tactics of the Stalin era involved weakening resistance by splitting related groups and joining unrelated ones in shared administrative units.

BBC: Karachay-Cherkessia profile

Decades of divide-and-rule tactics by the central government, which long denied basic citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Kurds, have exacerbated tribal, linguistic and religious divisions.

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