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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
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London
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Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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