In the course of a hundred days in 1994 the Hutu government of Rwanda and its extremist allies very nearly succeeded in exterminating the country’s Tutsi minority. Using firearms, machetes, and a variety of garden implements, Hutu militiamen, soldiers, and ordinary citizens murdered some 800,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu. It was the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century. So wrote Samantha Power, in the September, 2001, issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Her long article details the decision of the Clinton Administration to keep out of that war, even to the extent of pressuring the United Nations … Continue reading The Tutsis Had No Oil