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Greg Stanton: “Weak words are not enough. Failure to call ISIS a mass murderer of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2016
Weak words are not enough. Failure to call ISIS a mass murderer of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to Yezidis by its proper name, genocide, would be an active 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 emphasizes the importance of recognizing ISIS's actions as genocide.

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