A review by ferrerister
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

5.0

The book goes through genocide in the 20th century. It starts out with the Armenian genocide and works its way through the holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, the Iraqi Anfal campaign against the Kurds, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo. It chronicles Raphael Lemkin's coinage of the term genocide and his efforts to make it into a crime against international law. It goes through each of the genocides and describes America's response to the unfolding events and how "never again" really isn't US policy.