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Kouchner’s stance also set the stage for the United Nations’ adoption of the still more interventionist doctrine of the “responsibility to protect” – a call for outside military force to prevent genocide or widespread human rights abuses – during the secretary-generalship of Kofi Annan.

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This decline would be even more obvious if we factored in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

But for many parts of Africa, a colleague of mine once put it this way, "The cease-fire on Tuesday night was reached just in time for the genocide to start on Wednesday morning."

We are missing the stories of Violet, who, despite surviving genocide in the church massacre, she kept on going on, burying bodies, cleaning homes, cleaning the streets.

The problem then becomes how do you take seventh- and eighth-graders to a talk about genocide and deal with the subject in a way that is responsible and respectful, and they know what to do with it.

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