This fall, she is planning a presentation on the war in Rwanda with BU's African Studies Center. She says that more than 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu militias in 1994. There were camps of Rwandan Hutu refugees that were run by the same militias that organized the massacres. And the majority of the people in the camps weren't the Tutsi refugees, they were the Hutu murderers. Worldwide aid flooded into the camps where these murderers were reorganizing so they could finish the job.
Humanitarian intervention has to be well-organized.
In this case it was botched. At present, Moore is lobbying the 107th Congress to pass the Holocaust Education Assistance Act, a bill she says could, with modifications, provide funding and formal methodology in teaching this important subject. There had been a lot of commemorations, and the establishment of the Holocaust Memorial Council led to the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., but these are acts of memorial and commemoration, and not acts of education. I wonder if maybe Congress just isn't sure how to move from memorializing the Holocaust to educating about the Holocaust.