The Russians divided the Ossetian people between Russia and Georgia in 1922 as part of Moscow's divide-and-rule policy.

And cynical employers who pursued a divide-and-rule policy of "balancing the nationalities" exploited these divisions.

The French colonial administration also adopted divide-and-rule policies, applying ideas of assimilation only to the educated elite.

Yivu Maracha is one the new districts created out of the divide-and-rule policy of President Museveni.

To this effect they instituted separate laws for Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis and others as part of their divide-and-rule policy.

The legacy of British divide-and-rule policies inherited by the Congress Party is the root cause of the current state of affairs.

Tajikistan is also a good example of the divide-and-rule policies of the former Soviet Union, which drew republic borders to cut large nationalities apart.

No doubt the local Party authorities were helped in their divide-and-rule policy by Orthodox allegations that the Living Church had arisen due to'Jewish agitators'.

After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British followed a divide-and-rule policy, exploiting differences between communities, in order to prevent similar revolts from taking place.

Republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia, with boundaries defined by Stalinist divide-and-rule policies, are now independent, but old, suppressed nationalisms are re-emerging.