The most frustrating aspect of the 1994 anti-Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda was how preventable it was. Kofi Annan, then-Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, ordered his men to stand down ...

A French military team pushes bodies towards a mass grave at the Kimbumba refugee camp near Goma, Zaire, Aug. 1, 1994. Cholera and other diseases were killing thousands of Rwandan refugees who fled to ...