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This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide: three months of slaughter in which nearly a million people were killed.
As a scholar, Samantha Power wrote extensively about the U.S. failure to intervene in Rwanda and bring the genocide to an end. Now, as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Power led the American delegation to memorial services in Rwanda this past Monday.
On her way home, she visited the Central African Republic, a country where conditions are being compared to the genocide two decades ago. Sectarian violence has forced 80 percent of the Muslim population to flee and the U.N. says 1.5 million people face starvation.
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