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Wed 2nd Dec 2015
ISIL in Syria
Commons Chamber

ISIL in Syria

Debate between Andrew Gwynne and Rehman Chishti
Wednesday 2nd December 2015

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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If I can just make this point, I will give way to the hon. Gentlemen.

These many organisations from across the United Kingdom said that Daesh must be defeated for the sake of people in Syria as well as for the safety of people in Europe and of people in Britain, but they stressed that the greatest threat to Syrians comes from Assad, rather than Daesh; the number of civilians killed by Assad’s forces is more than two and a half times the number of UK civilians killed in the second world war.

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