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On the recordFebruary 24, 2016
Failure to call ISIS' mass murder of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to the 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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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith warns against the denial of genocide against various groups by ISIS.

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