Is There A Way To Avert Future Genocides?

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Wikipedia

Foreign Policy Experts Discuss Ways To Avert Future Genocide -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of memorials to historic atrocities, a group of foreign policy experts, among them Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, gathered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum on Tuesday to consider modern threats of genocide and how to prevent them.

With the specter of mounting violence in some countries, the threat of future mass killings was a prime concern.

“The United States and our partners must act before the wood is stacked or the match is struck,” Mrs. Clinton said, “because when the fire is at full blaze, our options for responding are considerably costlier and more difficult.”

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My Comment: It's hard to avoid future genocides when past genocides .... especially the first one in the 20th century ..... are denied by some democratic governments.