Rwandan Genocide: The World Watched and Did Nothing

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.

The Western media portrayed the killings as just another outburst of "tribal" violence on African soil, suggesting that nothing could be done to stop "savages" from killing each other in their "barbaric" outbursts of violence.

Under intense pressure from the United States and Britain, the