Both in the Great Lakes region and in the Balkans, it was the political leaders, in the governments and in the opposition, who fuelled and made negative use of ethnic differences in order to consolidate their respective power bases.
在大湖区及在巴尔干地区，是政府内部及反对派内部的政治领导人助长并消极地利用了族种分歧以巩固其各自的权力基础。