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Article: Rwandan genocide: Never again?
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- Jerusalem Post
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- April 7, 2009
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SAVO HELETA
Jerusalem Post
04-07-2009
Headline: Rwandan genocide: Never again?
Byline: SAVO HELETA
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 15
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 -- Fifteen years ago, in only three months almost a million Tutsis and many moderate Hutus were brutally slaughtered by the Hutu army and extremists in Rwanda.
During this time, the world watched and did nothing.
Philip Gourevitch wrote in his book on the Rwandan genocide that "the dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killing since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And while everyone knew what was going on in Rwanda, to many it didn't ...