Sentences with phrase «along tribal lines»

Last spring, after Kufra was divided along tribal lines, nearly 150 died in violent clashes, carried out with the discarded weapons from the Qaddafi regime.

Not exact matches

The second is more along the lines of author Frank Herbert, who explored in his Byzantine * Dune * saga just about every major system of power dynamics from religious / mystical to technological to political to tribal to financial to ecological to physical.

Local militias — often organized along tribal or ethnic lines — helped topple Qaddafi forces last year; but they are still active, continuing to act as local law enforcement in lieu of an assertive central government.

In such an upheaval the Baloch territories are likely to go their own way, and other tribal regions along Pakistan's western borders may also complete the irrelevance of colonial lines drawn through clans and kin.

by Walter Chaw Slot Michael Mann's Miami Vice in there alongside other millennial films about the disintegration of society and its subsequent renewal along tribal, exclusively masculine lines.

The relationship between population and natural systems is a national security issue, one that can spawn conflicts along geographic, tribal, ethnic, or religious lines.