ABSTRACT
Genocide dominated the 1990s. In Rwanda and the Balkans, opportunistic leaders led deliberate, organized, and systematic campaigns of rape, murder (genocidal massacres and outright genocide), and mass deportation against millions of defenseless civilians solely because of their ethnic, religious, or national identity. The international community, while possessing adequate knowledge of the crimes and sufficient power to stop them, refused to intervene in a timely and effective manner. Consequently, more than a million innocent Central African and Balkan men, women, and children were slaughtered and still millions more were scarred for life, physically and psychologically.
