The latest violence occurred outside the national capital, Dhaka, and seemed certain to deepen the already bitter tensions between the country's leading political parties.
There are plenty of comic partnerships that start out with a shared dream and end, like Peter Cook's and Dudley Moore's, in bitter tensions and seething envy.
During the late 1960's, when the United States was conducting the Vietnam War and bitter tensions divided the country, pop songs called for peace, unity and love.
The surge in fatal combat is a troubling development in Kashmir, a disputed mountainous area that has been a focus of bitter tensions between the neighbors over six decades.
And it divides two native groups who have lived here for centuries, generating perhaps the most bitter tensions of all, since the stakes involve their very way of life.
The chaotic clearance of the Calais migrant camp caused bitter tensions between the French and British governments, with France's president telling the UK it had to do its "moral duty" and take 1,000 children from the camp.
Bitter tensions may be roiling in Xinjiang, but in the cool shade of craggy pine trees and the sweeping eaves of the central courtyard of the Qing-dynasty mosque, diversity and tolerance were on display.Though concentrated in western China, Islam is practised across the country, with more than 23m adherents.
But bitter tensions, wild economic changes, shifting factional loyalties, manipulative imperial ambitions and an array of fierce, conspiratorial characters make Mr. Meredith's latest book about South Africa (he has already written three others, including a biography of Nelson Mandela) sound more complicated than his survey of the whole continent.
But since the soldiers arrived last week, nervous civilians living among bitter ethnic tensions are asking them to do just that.
Bitter ethnic tensions that had largely been shelved for the sake of achieving independence have ruptured into a cycle of massacre and revenge.
