However, it had clearly been a fratricidal conflict, resulting in some 50,000 deaths.

Later in 1919 a three-day-long battle was fought over the city by Poles and Ukrainians locked in a fratricidal conflict, each trying to secure their statehood.

The division inevitably produced fratricidal conflicts.

In 1985, when he was still in power, General Jaruzelski defended martial law as something that saved the country from "a fratricidal conflict" and showed no regrets.

And if those rival Shiite forces were to begin a fratricidal conflict, there is little the Britons would be able to do to intervene.

Kosovo itself has the potential to trigger fratricidal conflict in Albania proper and an enormous war in Macedonia.

In 1981, he said, "we were threatened with fratricidal conflict, and we could have inflicted on ourselves incalculable tragedy."

Any tinkering with it has brought about, in most cases, the specter of even more brutal war than the fratricidal conflicts of today.

Marxist and non-Marxist resistance groups fought each other in a fratricidal conflict to establish the leadership of the Greek resistance movement.

Mr. Dudayev said he had ordered units to stop fighting Russian troops "to avoid escalation of the fratricidal conflict and new victims among civilians."