The associated campaigns of genocide, levelled largely against the Highlanders and Islanders, caused many to leave Scotland.
Average incomes are now roughly back to their pre-genocide level, having fallen by half in 1994.Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi refugees have returned.
Hudson and other Africa watchers said the political controversy over Benghazi has affected the State Department's response to spiraling crises in South Sudan and in the Central African Republic -- another nation currently undergoing near-genocide levels of violence -- resulting in a heightened impulse for caution that seems to have restricted American action.
What should be the guidelines for when foreign troops should intervene to prevent genocide or a level of mass atrocity that approaches it?
Ultimately, no level of genocide is acceptable.
So many people participated in the nation's genocide that the "low level" criminals being judged by gacaca courts include thousands of murderers.
Such pogroms against the Jews had taken place since time out of mind, but the inception of modern technologies – the train, the telephone, the gas oven – meant the Nazis could escalate the phenomenon to the level of genocide.
In 2012, she launched a White House task force called the Atrocities Prevention Board, which was intended to insure that U.S. government agencies focus on emerging human-rights crises before they reach the level of genocide.
A second step could be to destroy one of Mr. Bashir's military planes with a warning that if he takes his genocide to a new level by depriving Darfuris of food and medical care, he will lose the rest of his air force.
My great interest in the trials was as a window, on the one hand, into our human condition in extreme circumstances, and the choices individuals make (or lack) in such situations; and, on the other hand, into the historical complexity of the dynamic of genocide at the central level.
For weeks, the United States and other nations appeared paralyzed, unclear whether Colonel Qaddafi's brutality would reach the level of genocide, while Robert M. Gates, then the defense secretary, fretted about the open-ended costs in the "ouster of a Middle Eastern leader" and the fallout from attacking "yet another Muslim country".
