Victims' Licence

George Monbiot has published a fascinating article on how being the victim of an atrocity (or the descendent of such a victim) appears to give people licence to commit fresh atrocities. The Germans, the Israelis and the Americans have done it; this article, however, concentrates on the crimes of the present government of Rwanda.

http://www.monbiot.org/dsparticle.cfm?articleid=647