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"Mr President, I welcome this debate in the House tonight. It is absolutely right that we in this Parliament, who enjoy the benefits of peaceful representative democracy in our Member States, should stand united in condemning the mass murder of religious minorities by Daesh. Weekly, we here often see images of mass killings, beheadings, gang rapes, hangings, and endless other barbaric acts perpetrated by fanatical jihadists. However, this Parliament should go further and recognise this barbarity for what it is: genocide and war crimes directed against Christians and other religious minorities. This afternoon I was pleased to attend the presentation by Open Doors of their watch list of those countries where Christians are most persecuted. I was struck by the simple fact that persecution against Christians is rising year—on—year. They estimated that, before the war in Syria, 400 000 Christians were in Aleppo. Today there are 6 000 …"@en1
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