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On the recordOctober 22, 2019
We handed them over to be slaughtered and ethnically cleansed from a region where they have lived for generations.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel accuses the U.S. of betraying Kurdish partners in Syria.

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