Rwanda and "Acts of Genocide"

I recently completed an excellent book, We Wish to Inform You Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch). If you want to try to get an understanding of what transpired in Rwanda 20 years ago, this is the book to read. This is a very difficult book, the intricate details of the massacre are really hard to process. Of particular interest to me was the role of the U.S. during and after the genocide.

I was not aware that UN had declared genocide a crime u...