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Liberal Cabinet Abstains As MPs Pass Motion Declaring Uighur Genocide In China

The non-binding Conservative motion passed by a vote of 266-0.
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Tories Ramp Up Pressure On Liberals To Declare Genocide In China

“China is acting with the intent to destroy” Uighurs, Erin O’Toole says.
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Trudeau Explains Reluctance To Call China’s Treatment Of Uighurs A Genocide

Tory Leader Erin O’Toole wants the 2022 Winter Olympics relocated out of Beijing.
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There Is No Such Thing As A 'Canadian' Genocide

An international crime demands nothing short of an international intervention.
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Why Canada Should Recognize The Kurdish Genocide

As an observer of the Kurdish genocide and subsequent referendum, Canada can influence international opinion by leveraging its competencies
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Hazara Genocide Continues As Trudeau Focuses On Easy Wins

Canada has decided to select manageable peacekeeping missions rather than hear the cries of the Hazaras.
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Globe And Mail Columnist Demonizes Israel

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My Father Was My Son's Age When The Nazis Came

When I was a young child I remember watching my dad as his headaches would start. His eyes would begin to glaze over. In those moments, my dad would regress to a terrified six-year-old boy, speaking in whispered tones in his native Yiddish, begging his sister to be quiet as they hid from the Nazis in a Belgian church.
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We Have A Responsibility To Prevent And Protect Against Genocide

The horror of the killing fields in Rwanda gave rise to the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine. In a word, if such mass atrocity crimes are being committed, and the state where these crimes are occurring is unwilling or unable to act -- or worse, is the author of such international crimes -- the Responsibility to Protect arises.
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A Hero That Embodies The Universal Lessons Of The Holocaust

In July 1944, some 430,000 Hungarian Jews had been deported to Auschwitz in the space of 10 weeks -- the fastest, cruelest and most efficient mass murder of the Nazi genocide. Yet Wallenberg rescued some 100,000 Jews in six months in Hungary in 1944, demonstrating that one person with the courage to care, and the commitment to act, can confront evil and transform history.
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