Early day motion · EDM 883 · 22 Feb 2010
SAFE HAVEN FOR ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS OF IRAQ
Tabled by Mr Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat)
32 signatures
The motion
That this House recognises the 250,000 victims of the Assyrian Genocide of 1915; further recognises that promises of Assyrian statehood autonomy made during the First World War were not honoured; further recognises that the Assyrian people also suffered persecution in 1933 in Iraq; and calls on the Government to make representations to the Iraqi and Turkish governments with the aim of ensuring a safe haven for Assyrian Christians, or otherwise to consider the other option of resettlement whereby the UK and other EU member states would become part of the safe haven.
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