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Rwanda 1994 vs Gaza 2014: Samantha Power And The Age Of Genocide;

Rwanda 1994 vs Gaza 2014: Samantha Power And The Age Of Genocide; By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich “ Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity .”   Horace Mann July 28, 2014 " ICH " -   In her acclaimed book “A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide” (2003), Samantha Power, current American Ambassador to the United Nations, sharply criticized the United States deliberate inaction and its failure to prevent a genocide in Rwanda where up to one million lives were lost. As she explains it, Washington simply was not interested in stopping the death toll.   The thinking in Washington was: “Look, if something happens in Rwanda-Burundi, we don’t care . Take it off the list. It’s not- U.S. national interest is not involved and,” you know, “we can’t put all these silly humanitarian