"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...."
"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..."
"Soon the State Department is likely to recognize the Yazidi genocide, based not only on an excellent U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum report..."
"Why is it important to use the word 'genocide'? Some people say, well, we can just call them crimes against humanity..."
"When genocide became the word that described the crime then action would be taken."
"I think the letter that you provided as an addendum as part of your testimony, Mr. Anderson, laid it out very clearly, and others have done so as well as to how that would be a mistake of monumental p..."
"Two years ago I introduced a resolution and tried to get the administration, I wrote on behalf of it in the Washington Post, to create a Syrian war crimes tribunal to hold all sides to account for atr..."
"I am asking again that the administration work within the United Nations Security Council to convene such a war crimes tribunal."
"About 1.5 million in Iraq alone, Christians, were there before the second Iraq war."
"When lesser terms, weaker terms, are used it is a sure indicator of an unwillingness to act."
"Certain groups are being targeted, and let's call what that means. Let's call out the right name and that is called genocide."
"The strategies that we're using to end chronic homelessness among veterans are the exact same strategies that we're going to use to end chronic homelessness among the broader population."