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"Mr President, I am very disappointed that this Parliament has opted to use the title ‘systematic mass murder’ in what is clearly genocide. Last year I visited the Kurdistan region of Iraq and met with Iraqi Christian refugees. Their plight as well as that of the Yazidis and other minorities is clearly due to a concerted campaign by ISIS to systematically rid Iraq and the wider Middle East of all non-Sunni Muslims. Religious minorities have seen their communities in the areas controlled by ISIS or Daesh destroyed, as men have been systematically executed and women have been captured as sex slaves. Yesterday’s report by the UNHRC highlighted these details in no uncertain terms and noted that such crimes, and I quote: ʻmay in some instances amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocideʼ. It is time for us now to take action that will remove such equivocation of labelling these crimes as such and put pressure on the UNSC and the P-5 to refer ISIS and its leadership under the terms of command responsibility to the ICC. I understand from my meetings with a KRG that the Iraqi Government is..."@en1
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