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Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...never will be—about the morality of ridding Iraq and the world of Saddam's regime. Since 2003, I agree that Iraq has gone through some terrible times. Insurgent groups have used violence and terrorism to try to stop democratic progress and to drag Iraq into the abyss of sectarian hatred and bloodshed. I have always believed, however, that the wisdom and ingenuity of the Iraqi people...

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...who follow Turkish human rights matters closely—was sentenced again to 10 years in prison by a Turkish court in Diyarbakir. The court ruled that she had violated the penal code and the anti-terror law in nine speeches, one of which was given here in the House of Commons. Leyla Zana is accused of having supported, and spread propaganda in favour of, the PKK—the Kurdistan Workers...

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Ann Clwyd: ...country for the last 26 years. Unlike you, however, I and my family, have not only watched but also sensed and experienced bitterly and in person, the physical and the psychological torture and the terror that we were subjected to, at the hands of Saddam's thugs and secret service criminals. I am not here trying to compare your family's situation with mine, but if your family was perhaps...

Iraq (17 May 2004)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...to Mr. Salim last Thursday. He was a gentle scholar who had contributed a lot to the governing council and to the future of a democratic Iraq. It was said earlier that his death was a triumph for terrorism, but it is the complete opposite. It will be a triumph for terrorism unless we stay the course, and Mr. Salim and all the members of the governing council, and all those who are fighting...

Occupied Palestinian Territories (29 Apr 2004)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...that make it possible to keep a prisoner incommunicado for excessively long periods. Nobody would dispute that the Israeli authorities are right to point out that their country is up against blind terrorism, which poses serious security problems that they have to address. However, our report, which the IPU governing council has distributed to 150 countries that are members of the IPU,...

Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan) (30 Jan 2003)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...to investigate and prosecute the Iraqi leadership. Its indictees would be subject to arrest and its creation could pave the way for UN-authorised military action later to neutralise any weapons and terrorism threats and to bring about regime change with international support.

Foreign Policy (Terrorism) (31 Oct 2002)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...that the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs has recommended that the Government work with the United States to ensure that any action taken against Iraq, or any other state, in the war against terrorism conforms to internationl law. The Government say that they are happy to confirm their commitment to ensure that any action they take is in accordance with international law. The United...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...were to visit a country that had signed the Geneva convention, that country would have an obligation to arrest or extradite him if a UK arrest warrant were sent to it. Given that there is a war on terror, why would not the UK wish to arrest a war criminal, or at least send a message to the world that war criminals and those who perpetrate acts of terror should no longer be allowed free...

Coalition Against International Terrorism (1 Nov 2001)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...them. They are concerned about the displaced people inside Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people were already displaced before the war started but have become even more so. Many have fled in terror to the borders or to friends and relatives out in the country. There are estimated to be about 2 million displaced people inside Afghanistan. The difficulty will be to reach those people...

UN Human Rights Commission (7 Mar 2001)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...they want because they are certain that they will not be held to account for their actions. Senior Russian Government sources refer to the elimination of terrorists rather than the elimination of terrorism and that is worrying. Unfortunately, most other Governments have shown themselves unwilling to take effective action to ensure that the Russian Government brings those violations to an...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 1999)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...siege by the powerful, struggling to survive against the odds. In reality, as the American ambassador for war crimes, Ambassador Scheffer, said in New York a few weeks ago, these are thugs who terrorize what was once, and could again become, a great nation. I chair an organisation, Indict, which is focused on bringing Saddam Hussein and some of his close associates before an international...

Iraq (17 Dec 1998)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...against and oppression of the Assyro-Chaldean and Turkoman minorities, state-directed rape, thalium poisoning, scientific experimentation on prisoners, execution campaigns, state-supported terrorism and the destruction of religious and cultural property. Dr. Al Hakim of the Organisation of Human Rights in Iraq described numerous atrocities, including those of dissolving bodies in nitric...

Prayers: Nato (26 Feb 1997)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...disempowerment and poverty force the south to take ever more desperate measures to compel the west and the north of the world to notice. Economic inequalities will probably lead to increases in terrorism and sub-state terror, with which NATO is not equipped to deal. Expansion of NATO will exacerbate the differences between the north and the south of the world. It will turn Europe into a...

Opposition Day: Overseas Aid (30 Jan 1996)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...have proved worthless. Only a few months ago, the British journalist Hugh O'Shaughnessy saw two Hawks make a low pass over Dili, the capital of East Timor, as part of the security forces' campaign of intimidation and terror to warn the people against staging any public protest to mark the fourth anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre that had resulted in the deaths of 150 unarmed...

Prayers: Falkland Islands (22 Mar 1995)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...last week. Carlos Menem, who was 26, was killed in an air crash after his helicopter hit overhead power lines. Areas of co-operation between the UK and Argentina include peacekeeping and counter-terrorism. British and Argentine troops are working side by side in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and in Cyprus. In the trade area, British exports to Argentina...

Orders of the Day — South Africa Bill [Lords] (9 Mar 1995)

Ms Ann Clwyd: .... The Commonwealth played a proud part. The apartheid regime engaged in the systematic use of armed forces and economic destabilisation against majority-ruled states in southern Africa. It backed terrorism elsewhere, yet the Commonwealth Heads of Government remained steadfast in their support for the liberation forces in South Africa. In 1986, the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...south or in the rich north, we all share the same planet. Whether it is global warming or the destruction of the rain forests, whether it is disasters such as AIDS which know no boundaries, or whether it is terrorism or religious fanaticism, the truth is that we are all linked together and there is no way we can or should escape those challenges.

Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development: Kurdish People (18 Nov 1991)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...them? Can the Minister urge the Prime Minister to honour his promises and ensure that the Kurds are given air cover backed by a visible will to use it until they are no longer threatened by the terror and butchery of Saddam Hussein?

Kampuchea (21 Jan 1988)

Ms Ann Clwyd: .... Only five were known to have escaped alive as the Vietnamese liberated the city from Pol Pot. I asked our guide, in a shocking reminder of the three years, eight months and 20 days of Pol Pot terror, what he had done before the Pol Pot regime. "A student of literature," he said, "hoping to become a teacher." "And now?" "All our dreams have been changed," he said quietly. We were taken...