| Sumario: | The writer presents an account of a visit to Rwanda that coincided with the tenth-anniversary commemorations of the 1994 genocide in the country. He explains that his trip preceded a journey with Britain's secretary of state for international development, Hilary Benn, and his advisory team, in search of political solutions to entrenched problems in Rwanda and the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. He includes excerpts from conversations with Benn regarding issues of reconstruction, development, and stability and the distribution of aid in these and other collapsed African states; and he also considers the role of Western emotionalism and guilt in British government policy.
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