When We Let People Die

After some 800,000 Rwandans were murdered during the 1994 genocide, "Never Again" became a rallying cry for those focused on the topic of massive human rights violations. The failure in Rwanda was a catalyst for a newly focused movement toward creating new structures for atrocity prevention, leading to the creation of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). In 2001, this international coalition released a report called "The Responsibility to Protect." R2P...