Maundy Thursday’s House of Lords debate was on Syria, in which David Alton spoke spoke: “there have been widespread reports of arbitrary arrests, threats of violence and looting of civilian property by the Free Syrian Army—a group the United Kingdom Government have previously told us that they support.”
“The consequences for Syria have been lethal for millions of people, not least in the slaughter of the region’s minorities…Nearly 10,000 Yazidis are believed to have been killed or captured by ISIS, with more than 3,000 Yazidi girls and women believed to be currently enslaved in Syria. Christians have also experienced a genocide that began with the Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century and continues to this day.”
Speaking specifically of the plight of Christians, he said:”The Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo says that two-thirds of Syrian Christians have either been killed or driven away from his country.”
Lord Alton explained what one Christian family had gone through: “I serve as a pro bono member of the board of the charity Aid to the Church in Need, and have been deeply moved by the accounts of many who have given evidence to the charity. The suffering that they have experienced was described last night at a Passiontide Wednesday service at St Patrick’s, Soho. One of those who has given evidence told me the story of a Christian family: a mother and 12…
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