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Rwandan Genocide

Backbench debate on Thursday, 8 May 2014, in the House of Commons, led by Brooks Newmark. The answering member was Hugh Robertson.
Unallotted backbench debate (half day). Motion that this House commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, when over the course of a 100-day period in 1994 at least 800,000 Rwandans were murdered; and calls on the Government to reinforce its commitment to the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine and to working within the UN to promote international justice and to avoid mass atrocities which are still committed across the globe today. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
580 cc358-387 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Primarolo | 580 c358 (Link to this contribution)

I believe that it is Mr Newmark’s birthday, so may I wish him many happy returns of the day? I ca...

Brooks Newmark | 580 cc358-9 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, w...


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Bob Stewart | 580 c359 (Link to this contribution)

One real problem at the time was the fact that the UN international assistance mission for Rwanda...

Brooks Newmark | 580 cc359-361 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. and gallant Friend is absolutely right. Anybody who has seen the film “Shooting Dogs” wil...

Graham P Jones | 580 cc361-2 (Link to this contribution)

Last summer I visited Rwanda, and I was fortunate enough to go back in March and April this year....

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 580 c362 (Link to this contribution)

This is obviously a very serious subject and the matters to which the hon. Gentleman is alluding ...

Graham P Jones | 580 cc362-6 (Link to this contribution)

I do visit Scotland, but I am not an expert on the highlands. There was some trouble with mobile ...

Bob Stewart | 580 c365 (Link to this contribution)

During his visit, did the hon. Gentleman see any evidence of tension, or, indeed, encounter any

Lindsay Hoyle | 580 c367 (Link to this contribution)

Before the hon. Gentleman responds, it might be helpful if I point out that there are five furthe...

Graham P Jones | 580 c367 (Link to this contribution)

Travelling around the country, we see the reconciliation villages, the process of peace and recon...

Lindsay Hoyle | 580 c367 (Link to this contribution)

Marvellous; that is very generous.

3.37 pm

Damian Hinds | 580 cc367-371 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Newmark) on securing this important an...

Stephen Twigg | 580 cc371-2 (Link to this contribution)

I draw the House’s attention to my relevant entries in the Register of Members’ Financial Interes...

Bob Stewart | 580 c372 (Link to this contribution)

When I was the British United Nations commander in Bosnia, one of the biggest obstacles to gettin...

Stephen Twigg | 580 cc372-3 (Link to this contribution)

I hope so. That is my honest answer. I will come to the specifics of how we might move forward on...

Brooks Newmark | 580 c373 (Link to this contribution)

On that important point, the French proposal is excellent but the weakness in it is what we see i...

Stephen Twigg | 580 cc373-4 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, which anticipates something that I am about to say....

Pauline Latham | 580 c374 (Link to this contribution)

I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Newmark) on securing this very i...

Brooks Newmark | 580 c374 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend join me in thanking our right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr...

Pauline Latham | 580 cc374-5 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I also note that the Prime Minister endorsed it when in oppos...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 580 c375 (Link to this contribution)

To support what the hon. Lady is saying, when I was in Rwanda and taken to a reconciliation villa...

Pauline Latham | 580 c375 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The hon. Member for Hyndburn (Graham Jones) will remember...

Graham P Jones | 580 c375 (Link to this contribution)

To add to that, there was not just a marriage; one of the partners had murdered the other partner...

Pauline Latham | 580 cc375-7 (Link to this contribution)

Again, that shows the tremendous journey that people have taken. We can all look back to the past...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 580 c376 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes another good point about the advancement of Rwanda. I was struck not just by ...

Pauline Latham | 580 c376 (Link to this contribution)

I agree. It is important that people who have learnt skills in other countries can go back and he...

Jeremy Lefroy | 580 cc376-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Pauline Latham) an...

Brooks Newmark | 580 c379 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his amazing work in leading Project Umubano, and I commend his excelle...

Jeremy Lefroy | 580 cc379-380 (Link to this contribution)

I did not realise that that had happened until my second or third visit to Rwanda, and I was huge...

Pamela Nash | 580 c380 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman share my chronic fear that we have not learned the lessons from 1994? He ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 580 c380 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that I do share that concern. I regret to say that, but I do not think that we have l...

Andrew Jones | 580 cc380-2 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to follow so many powerful speeches from across the House. I congratulate my ho...

Pamela Nash | 580 cc382-3 (Link to this contribution)

I did not think that there would be time for me to speak today, so I did not prepare anything, bu...

Ian Lucas | 580 cc383-6 (Link to this contribution)

It has been a real pleasure to sit through the debate and listen to Members’ contributions. They ...

Hugh Robertson | 580 cc386-8 (Link to this contribution)

This has been a moving, powerful and constructive couple of hours. At the outset, it is appropria...

Brooks Newmark | 580 c387 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Backbench Business Committee, and indeed the Leader of the House, for their support i...

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