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In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in 2014, the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the National Security Archive launched the first phase of a multiyear initiative titled Failure to Prevent: International Decision Making in the Age of Genocide. The first phase included this series of “electronic briefing books” that provide in-depth background to pivotal events before and during the Rwandan genocide, when international action could have made a difference.
A cemetery in Rwanda where victims of the genocide are buried. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum