This is the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis and the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and perhaps since World War II.
Dick Durbin: “This is the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis and the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994…”
On the recordJanuary 6, 2014
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Durbin emphasizes the severity of the Syrian refugee crisis.
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