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The film ‘Ghosts of Rwanda’ revisits the 1994 genocide committed by Hutu militias against rival Tutsi tribes people where 500,000−800,000 were murdered as otherwise empowered states, officials, and individuals did nothing. In a world where most have heard the post-Holocaust mantra “Never Again,” echoed repeatedly, pay special attention to this sad chapter in the history of human rights abuse, and tragically, to the ‘success story’ of an alliance of states and international organizations who conveniently found common interest in a policy of non-intervention. More recently in places like the Sudan (Darfur) and Syria, most Americans, Christians included, have generally remained indifferent to calls for humanitarian intervention in order to save lives subject to genocidal murder if not simple political chaos.