Obama orders measures to help US stop atrocities
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President Barack Obama ordered new measures on Thursday to boost the US ability to stop mass atrocities such as genocide and bar perpetrators of war crimes from entering the United States.
The order sets up an Atrocity Prevention Board of government agencies to coordinate responses to such events within the administration.
Obama noted in a statement that 66 years after the Holocaust and 17 years after the genocide in Rwanda the United States still lacked a "comprehensive policy framework" for stopping large-scale atrocities. (Reuters)
