A Problem from Hell, a book by journalist Samantha Power, delves into the relationship between the United States and genocide. She uses her experience as a frontline reporter, combined with research into the history of the United States's reaction to extreme violence and genocide outside its borders to inform the public of its own country's inaction toward not only the happenings of the Holocaust, but also the Rwandan, Armenian, Iraqi, and Cambodian genocides. In 1995, Samantha Power worked as a journalist under the Washington Post. She had been sent to the Middle East to cover the clash of the Bosnian War, as Bosnia and Herzegovina conflicted. After returning from the Middle East, Power was at a loss, caused by what she had witnessed overseas. As she looked into how it could be possible for so many innocent men, women, and children could be killed at the hands of a government force, and Power found herself at a loss at the American response, or lack of response, to genocides of the past and present. …show more content…
She had bore witness to a number of atrocities committed by oppressors, including murder, assault, and starvation. Nearly everything she reported back to the Washington Post consisted of sorrow and bad news, including the happenings of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre, where over 8,000 Bosniak people of mostly men and boys, were killed under the command of Ratko Mladic. However, this was only an unfortunately small number when combined with the number of all Bosnian people killed during the