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"en.20161215.7.4-104-000"2
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"Mr President, these mass graves tell a powerful tale of unspeakable cruelty, a barbarism of the type which we thought and had hoped had been wiped from the face of the earth last century with the total and utter collapse of the ideologies of those such as Stalin and Hitler. Every single person who is tortured to death in custody, every rape, every murder, every unspeakable act of brutality, puts our world to shame. Every genocidal act seems to drive the innocent Yazidis from the face of this earth and seeks to murder those of so many religions.
Even as ISIS is being driven from Mosul in Iraq, even as that scourge is being removed, supposedly never to return, we see a chilling reminder that many of those same people who terrorised Mosul have gone to Palmyra in Syria, which was supposedly liberated just months ago, to force the same unspeakable horrors upon that ancient city once again.
In Iraq, there may be glimmers of hope; we may speak of war crimes and justice, of a response to the utter inhumanity of what happened and to what is happening there still. Those who are dead may never be brought back to life, but what we can do is seek justice and seek a world in which these things never happen again. Yet we see that however bad the situation in Mosul, the situation in Syria is even worse.
The international community simply must work together. We must drive this scourge and the barbarous ideology from our planet. It is so sad that every day that this continues, yet more lives are being lost, more people are being tortured, and more people are being murdered. We must do whatever we can to stop these barbaric acts."@en1
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