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An article from The New York Review of Books by debsian 16 April 2002 18:51 UTC |
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You have been sent this message by debsian@pacbell.net. -- The New York Review of Books March 14, 2002 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15183 Genocide and America By Samantha Power Over the course of the last century, the United States has made modest progress in its responses to genocide, the deliberate destruction of ethnic, national, or religious groups. The persistence and proliferation of dissenters within the US government and human rights advocates outside it have made a policy of silence in the face of genocide more difficult to sustain. As Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic learned, state sovereignty no longer necessarily shields a perpetrator of genocide from either military intervention or courtroom punishment.
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