Volume 49, Number 7 · April 25, 2002
Shameful Neglect
By Brian Urquhart
'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
Basic Books, 610 pp., $30.00
During the twentieth century there were not only two world wars but at least six major cases of genocide—the mass killing of Armenians by Turks in 1915, of Jews (and other groups such as the Gypsies) by Hitler, of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge, of the Kurds of northern Iraq by Saddam Hussein, of the Tutsi of Rwanda by the Hutu, and of Croats, Muslims, and the Albanians of Kosovo by the Serbs. In all cases except the Kosovo Albanians, the international community and its Western leaders failed to act in time.
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