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Proceeding contribution from Angus Brendan MacNeil (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 January 2009. It occurred during Topical debate on Holocaust Memorial Day.


Holocaust Memorial Day

I am listening carefully to the hon. Lady. I am sure that she agrees that genocide and mass murder do not stem from only one part of the political spectrum—we think of the works of Stalin, and of Mao in the cultural revolution. Like the Under-Secretary, last summer I spent some time with VSO, and I was sent to Cambodia, where an auto-genocide happened. At that time, I was a young boy and blissfully unaware of what was happening there. That happened in an extreme left country, but was stopped by another country from the same part of the political spectrum. Vietnam's interference and invasion thankfully stopped the mass murder of a third of the Cambodian population. Is not the overriding point the one that the Under-Secretary made about others standing by—


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
487 c485-6 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Crimes of violence Community relations Education Harassment Discrimination Holocaust Memorial Day Racial discrimination Religious hatred Antisemitism Holocaust Educational Trust Holocaust
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk