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Katrina Lantos Swett: “We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2014
We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.
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Katrina Lantos Swett

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Communities affected by persecution feel they cannot return to their homes.

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