House of Representatives, at a
hearing titled The ISIS Genocide Declaration: What Next?, May
26, 2019)
Thank you for the opportunity to appear before this
subcommittee and to discuss the next steps that need to be
taken needed to protect the survivors of ongoing genocide in
Iraq and Syria. Let me begin by saying that the House of
Representatives, the State Department and the United States
Commission on International Religious Freedom are all to be
commended for the important step of declaring the situation
confronting Christians and other religious minorities in the
Middle East genocide. The world's greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II
is unfolding now in the Middle East. In addition to millions
of refugees, many of the region's indigenous communities now
face extinction. These communities may disappear in less than
a decade. But their fate is not inevitable.
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