Why did Haiti get more attention than Rwanda?

Editor, On the 12th of January, a huge earthquake hit Haiti. The casualties have already reached the hundreds of thousands and are still rising. Before any one could say ‘’help’’ money and media attention, and what it entails, was flowing from all over the world. In 1994, a well planned genocide against the Tutsi began in Rwanda, killing 1 million and leaving survivors terrorized for their entire lives.