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"en.20150611.3.4-008-000"2
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"Mr President, the fall of Palmyra and Ramadi is a blow to the belief that the fight against ISIS is progressing and that the liberation of Mosul could indeed begin soon. The international coalition that is fighting ISIS from the air is clearly making some progress and has been successful in destroying certain strategic and economic targets, to the detriment and degradation of ISIS/Daesh. The ground offensive, however, clearly has a lot further to go. Relying on an ill-prepared, unwilling Iraqi force and Iranian-backed Shia militias can only achieve so much and, in some cases, is proving to be counterproductive in the campaign for Sunni hearts and minds in Iraq.
The fall of Palmyra is of huge concern as we witness one of the world’s greatest ancient ruins – a testament to the great civilisations that have flourished in the Middle East throughout the millennia – being subject to the whims of a band of barbarian philistines. Tragic as this is, however, it is nothing compared to the loss of life, the sexual violence, enslavement and monstrous brutality that ISIS/Daesh is perpetrating across the region, and we will do all that we can today to remember that as part of the debate.
As we think of the human cost of the crisis in the Middle East, it is apt also today in this Chamber to discuss the case of Mazen Darwish, who is a victim of the totalitarian-run state that Assad has left to administer. It serves in some sense to remind us where much of the story began. This Parliament stands up for the belief in freedom of speech, and I am proud today again to call for the release of Mr Darwish on those grounds."@en1
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