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3. Milos Obilic was a fourteenth century Serbian hero who
temporarily fell into disrepute with the Serbian leader Prince
Lazar. He redeemed himself by assassinating the Ottoman Sultan
Murad I at the battle of Kosovo, 15 June 1389. Milos sacrificed
himself in this action.
4. Baron, 186.
5. Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in
Twentieth Century Europe (Boston: Harvard University Press,
2002), 199.

HELPING HUMANITY:
American Policy and Genocide Rescue
Keith Pomakoy, Lexington Books, Lanham,
Maryland, 2011, 248 pages, $85.00

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he United States is often criticized for not
intervening as soon as a humanitarian crisis
arises. In Helping Humanity: American Policy
and Genocide Rescue, Keith Pomakoy rebuts this criticism by analyzing U.S. aid efforts during five genocides
from humanitarian, political, and military perspectives,
as well as reviewing the impact of international tribunals following mass atrocities. Pomakoy asserts that
American foreign policy has always been humanitarian-based and interve