Considering that war, violence, suspicion and the demonization of others impede any progress towards reconciliation and the solution of the problems facing the people of Burundi,

4. Be constantly on their guard to ensure that their statements are impartial and objective, in order to avoid stereotyping and demonization, and that any criticisms they put forward are constructive

9. Against a backdrop of increasingly accessible and destructive conventional weapons, many of these conflicts pit compatriot against compatriot, neighbour against neighbour. They are often characterized by the demonization of the enemy community and the orchestration of vicious hate campaigns.

Extreme anti Americanism and anti Zionism are actually merging. The so called peace poster Hitler Had Two Sons Bush and Sharon, displayed in European anti war rallies, combines trivialization of Nazism with demonization of both the victims of Nazism and those who defeated Nazism.

Last October, amid an unnecessary escalation of sectarian violence, state owned television featured a hospitalized Egyptian soldier screaming, The Copts killed my colleague! The systematic demonization of the Tahririst groups, and the violent escalation that followed in November and December, served the same purpose.

In that regard, he drew the attention of CERD members to the fact that the groundwork for the commission of genocidal violence is always laid by identity, intellectual and cultural constructs which over time legitimize genocidal acts through cultural stereotyping and demonization of victim groups and communities.

Of course, this demonization is nothing like what we saw during the days of the USSR. Nevertheless, Putin still considers it necessary to pose in front of television cameras every few months to report that Russian scientists have developed some new missile that can penetrate any anti ballistic missile system that the US may erect.