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"en.20160204.29.4-441-875"2
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"I strongly support this resolution on the systematic mass murder of religious minorities by so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’. Under international law each individual has the right to live according to his or her conscience and to freely hold and change religious and non-religious beliefs. Religious and ethnic minorities, such as the Christian and Yazidi communities, among others, have been deliberately targeted by Daesh and are being slaughtered, beaten, abducted and tortured. Also hugely worrying is the targeted enslavement of the women and girls of these communities, who are subjected to horrific sexual violence and forcibly trafficked, married and converted. The international legal definition of genocide, in accordance with the 1948 UN Convention, has undoubtedly been fulfilled and I support the call for action to be taken for it to be recognised as genocide by the UN Security Council and for the Council to support a referral to the ICC in order to investigate violations committed in Iraq and Syria by Daesh against religious and ethnic minorities. It is also worth noting that this ongoing persecution of religious and ethnic groups in the Middle East is a contributing factor to the current refugee crisis."@en1
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