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“A Problem from Hell” America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power Harper Perennial An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF This edition published by Harper Perennial 2007 FIRST EDITION First published in Great Britain by Flamingo in 2003 First published in the US by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group Copyright © Samantha Power 2003 PS Section copyright © HarperCollinsPublishers 2007, except ‘The Void:Why the Movement Needs Help’and ‘“Why Can’t We” – A Commencement Address’ by Samantha Power © Samantha Power 2007 Samantha Power asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780007172993 Ebook Edition © MAY 2010 ISBN: 9780007346981 Version: 2019-01-15 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction 2003 Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2003 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction Winner of the National Magazine Award for her Atlantic Monthly article “Bystanders to Genocide” Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award (Institute for the Study of Genocide) Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the Best Book on American Political or Social Concern That Exemplifies Literary Grace and Commitment to Serious Research Short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Book in Current Interest Short-listed for the Arthur Ross Book Award for the Best Book in International Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) Short-listed for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the Best Book in International Relations (Munk Center for International Studies, Canada) Winner of the National Magazine Award for her New Yorker article “Dying in Darfur” Table of Contents
Chapter 2 “A Crime Without a Name”
Chapter 3 The Crime With a Name
Chapter 5 “A Most Lethal Pair of Foes”
Chapter 6 Cambodia: “Helpless Giant”
Chapter 7 Speaking Loudly and Looking for a Stick
Chapter 8 Iraq: “Human Rights and Chemical Weapons Use Aside”
Chapter 9 Bosnia: “No More than Witnesses at a Funeral”
Chapter 10 Rwanda: “Mostly in a Listening Mode”
Chapter 11 Srebrenica:“Getting Creamed”
Chapter 12 Kosovo: A Dog and a Fight
Chapter 13 Lemkin’s Courtroom Legacy
