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But the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was not inevitable

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The Survivors Fund published an extract from an address by Senior Fellow Noam Schimmel on the Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

“History can have about it a feeling of inevitability. It happens and quickly becomes normalized and it is hard to imagine it unfolding differently from how we know it to have taken place, however horrifically, immorally, tragically, and cruelly. But the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was not inevitable,” Noam said. Read the full extract here.