Iraq: Camp Ashraf Debate

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Iraq: Camp Ashraf

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass Excerpts
Wednesday 27th April 2011

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Maginnis of Drumglass Portrait Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
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My Lords, will the Minister accept that the term “unfortunate circumstance” misleadingly and euphemistically represents what has happened in Camp Ashraf? Does he accept that what happened there was a massacre—wholesale and indiscriminate slaughter? Will the Government consider the need to send a delegation from this House, or from Parliament in general, to Camp Ashraf? Furthermore, will they consider sending Nouri al-Maliki and his Camp Ashraf dispersal committee to court at The Hague?

Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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My Lords, there is a good deal of violence all the way across the Middle East at present, with which the United Nations is actively engaged. I have to reiterate that Iraq is now a sovereign state; that the United Kingdom Government are doing their best to investigate what has happened; that this is a long-standing confrontation going back to the change of government in 2003 in Iraq; and that it is not as simple to resolve as the noble Lord suggests.