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Greg Stanton: “State's failure to call ISIS' mass murder of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to Yazidis, by its proper…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2015
State's failure to call ISIS' mass murder of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to Yazidis, by its proper name 'genocide' would be an act of denial as grave as U.S. refusal to recognize the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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Greg Stanton
Democratic · Arizona

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Stanton criticizes the U.S. for not labeling ISIS actions as genocide.

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