Help me Rwanda! By Joseph Farah

"Rwanda abolishes death penalty."

The headline caught my eye.

Some 13 years after the government of Rwanda sparked the genocide of some 800,000 mostly Christian ethnic Tutsis, a new government had, in a remarkable act of "compassion," prohibited the execution of any of those found legally responsible for those deaths.

It is as if the madness in Rwanda has never stopped – not completely.

But this particular strain of madness is not native to Rwanda. Those promoting the abolition of the death penalty in Rwanda belong to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the U.N. that sat on its hands while 800,000 people were butchered over a period of weeks, most with machetes?

Am I the only one who finds irony in the U.N.'s latest "resolution" of Rwanda's problems – the blocking of justice for the killers?

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