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BRITAIN MUST NOT STAND BY AND LET GENOCIDE OCCUR IN NORTHERN IRAQ
Britain has a duty to protect the Yazidi community from being wiped out
Displaced Yazidi people rush towards an aid helicopter Photo: RUDAW
7:00AM BST 11 Aug 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/11024767/Britain-must-not-stand-by-and-let-genocide-occur-in-northern-Iraq.html
SIR - Having visited the Holocaust Memorial in Yerevan, I cannot
fail to notice the striking parallel of what is happening today in
northern Iraq to what happened in Armenia nearly 100 years ago.
In 1915, under the Ottoman Empire, Armenian Christians and Assyrians
were targeted by the Islamic extremists of the day. Men were
slaughtered and women and children forced to go on "death marches"
into the Syrian desert without food or water, where they died of
starvation. Children who remained were forcibly converted to Islam
and given to Muslim families.
Under President Roosevelt, America was one of the few countries to
offer humanitarian help, raising some $100 million. In 1918, Roosevelt
described the mass murder that took place as "the greatest crime of
the war".
Britain cannot now stand by in the aisles and allow another genocide
to take place.
Dr Robert Balfour Ogmore-by-Sea, Glamorgan
Britain has a duty to protect the Yazidi community from being wiped out
Displaced Yazidi people rush towards an aid helicopter Photo: RUDAW
7:00AM BST 11 Aug 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/11024767/Britain-must-not-stand-by-and-let-genocide-occur-in-northern-Iraq.html
SIR - Having visited the Holocaust Memorial in Yerevan, I cannot
fail to notice the striking parallel of what is happening today in
northern Iraq to what happened in Armenia nearly 100 years ago.
In 1915, under the Ottoman Empire, Armenian Christians and Assyrians
were targeted by the Islamic extremists of the day. Men were
slaughtered and women and children forced to go on "death marches"
into the Syrian desert without food or water, where they died of
starvation. Children who remained were forcibly converted to Islam
and given to Muslim families.
Under President Roosevelt, America was one of the few countries to
offer humanitarian help, raising some $100 million. In 1918, Roosevelt
described the mass murder that took place as "the greatest crime of
the war".
Britain cannot now stand by in the aisles and allow another genocide
to take place.
Dr Robert Balfour Ogmore-by-Sea, Glamorgan