Summary
A primary reason the United Nations was established after World War II was to ensure there'd never be another Holocaust - one group trying to eliminate another, as Nazi Germany did to the Jews. Preventing such state-sponsored genocide is a fundamental responsibility of an organization that independent nations created specifically to promote global peace and security.
Sadly, it has failed - first in Rwanda, back in 1994, when the Hutu government encouraged the annihilation of 800,000 Tutsis. The United Nations and the United States lamented the tragedy, but did very little to prevent it, seemingly subscribing to then-French President Francois Mitterand's cynical observation that, "In such countries as (Rwanda), genocide is not too important."See the full content of this document
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No Stopping Genocide
Later U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President Clinton apologized for underestimating the awfulness of the terror. "We didn't...
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