Daesh: Genocide of Minorities Debate
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Jeremy Lefroy
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(8 years, 7 months ago)
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Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)
In 1994, I was living a few hundred miles away from where nearly a million people were killed over the course of three months in a genocide in Rwanda. Both before the genocide and during it, the international community was too slow to act and too slow to recognise that crime against humanity. As a result, more people died than was necessary. This is another such occasion on which we have heard the evidence and need to say quite categorically that it is genocide. We should recognise that now. If not now, when?