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23rd Anniversary Of The Anfal Campaign In Iraqi Kurdistan

EDM number 1599 in 2010-12, proposed by Robert Halfon on 15/03/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Iraq.

That this House notes that March 2011 marks the 23rd anniversary of the Anfal Genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, including the massacre by chemical weapons of 5,000 people in Halabja on 16 March 1988; recognises and condemns the systematic slaughter of the Kurds by the Ba'athist regime under Saddam Hussein; regrets that almost 200,000 people were murdered and 4,500 villages destroyed; applauds the Iraqi Parliament and the Canadian Parliament for recognising these acts as genocide; and supports greater international recognition of the Anfal campaign as genocide.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Robert Halfon15/03/2011HarlowConservativeProposed
Peter Bottomley15/03/2011Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Mark Durkan15/03/2011FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Martin Caton16/03/2011GowerLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins16/03/2011Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn16/03/2011Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Mike Gapes17/03/2011Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Stephen Williams17/03/2011Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Lloyd21/03/2011Manchester CentralLabourSigned
John Hemming22/03/2011Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech22/03/2011Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Shannon22/03/2011StrangfordDUPSigned
John McDonnell23/03/2011Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/03/2011Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Hywel Williams23/03/2011ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Julian Lewis24/03/2011New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Alasdair McDonnell24/03/2011Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Margaret Ritchie28/03/2011South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mike Hancock28/03/2011Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Osborne29/03/2011Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Naomi Long30/03/2011Belfast EastAllianceSigned

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