What were the short and long-term causes of this genocide?
What role did ideology or prejudice play in this genocide? What role did more immediate political or military factors play?
How did the rest of the world respond to this genocide? Do you think their response was adequate? Why or why not?
What could the United States or other countries have done to prevent genocide in the 1970s and 1980s? What options were available?
Why do you think the United States and other countries failed to do more to intervene?
Was this response (or lack of response) justified? Why or why not?