Rwanda Tribunal Taught Loretta Lynch Real Power of Prosecutors

Loretta Lynch drove deep into the hills of Rwanda and waited for the witnesses to arrive, one after the other, many still bearing the scars of genocide.

As a veteran federal prosecutor, Lynch had seen her share of human depravity -– murderers, child pornographers, gang leaders, abusive cops. But nothing had prepared her for that summer of 2005 when she volunteered as a war crimes prosecutor and spent her days in a stuffy van interviewing nervous and skeptical survivors of one of the world’s worst atrocities.