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In @SunTimesIreland Mick Wallace said:
'“Assad is leader of a huge country; I don’t know any leader of a huge country that behaves well'
In Dail he said Assad is 'not an exemplary democratic leader'
Such statements re genocide need exposure
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letter from @valeriemhughes
'“Assad is leader of a huge country; I don’t know any leader of a huge country that behaves well'
In Dail he said Assad is 'not an exemplary democratic leader'
Such statements re genocide need exposure
Thread
letter from @valeriemhughes
@valeriemhughes in @SunTimesIreland challenges Mick Wallace extraordinary statements re Assad
'Assad apologist
Assessment of Assad by Mick Wallace contrasts sharply with leading war crimesprosecutor Stephen Rapp, who says Assads eventual prosecution for war crimes is inevitable'
'Assad apologist
Assessment of Assad by Mick Wallace contrasts sharply with leading war crimesprosecutor Stephen Rapp, who says Assads eventual prosecution for war crimes is inevitable'
'Mick Wallace said he didn’t know “any leader of a huge country that behaves well”. Stephen Rapp leading war crimes prosecutor says evidence of war crimes in Syria “is the strongest sinceNazi war crimes in the Second World War”'
@valeriemhughes
'Human rights lawyers have recently submitted the first war crimes cases against Assad at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, based on testimony from Syrian refugees in Jordan, who describe being shot at,bombed and tortured by the Assad regime'
'Human rights lawyers have recently submitted the first war crimes cases against Assad at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, based on testimony from Syrian refugees in Jordan, who describe being shot at,bombed and tortured by the Assad regime'
@valeriemhughes
'Wallace & Clare Daly spoke abt being free to walk abt & talk to anyone on visits to Syria. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic established by UN Human Rights Council & @amnesty are both barred from entering the country'
'Wallace & Clare Daly spoke abt being free to walk abt & talk to anyone on visits to Syria. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic established by UN Human Rights Council & @amnesty are both barred from entering the country'
@valeriemhughes
'@amnesty reports mass hangings & extermination of thousands of Syrian detainees by the Assad regime in Saydnaya prison near Damascus, with reports of an acceleration in executions as negotiations to end the war continue'
'@amnesty reports mass hangings & extermination of thousands of Syrian detainees by the Assad regime in Saydnaya prison near Damascus, with reports of an acceleration in executions as negotiations to end the war continue'
'It is unlikely Syrian businessman Fares Shehabi a close associate of Assad who facilitated the visits by Wallace & Daly included Saydnaya or other detention centres during his organised tour for Irish group of deputies which included Maureen O’Sullivan & Catherine Connolly'
@valeriemhughes
'Assad dismissed killing of heroic Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, claiming she was responsiblefor her own death because she had entered Syria illegally & was working with “terrorists”. I wonder what Colvin would have made of Wallace’s pronouncements'
'Assad dismissed killing of heroic Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, claiming she was responsiblefor her own death because she had entered Syria illegally & was working with “terrorists”. I wonder what Colvin would have made of Wallace’s pronouncements'
Details in the letter & great challenge above from @valeriemhughes to Mick Wallace's minimisation of war crimes, crimes against humanity, & policy of 'extermination' (UN word) & genocide by Assad are only the tip of the iceberg
Wallace & Daly stance on Syria is appalling
Wallace & Daly stance on Syria is appalling
