Posted on 09/15/2016 6:49:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
Washington, DC: September 12, 2016. (PCP) Last Friday, September 9, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry introduced a bipartisan resolution confronting the ISIS genocide by calling for the creation of a Nineveh Plain Province in Iraq. He announced that he would be introducing the resolution yesterday at IDC's third annual National Advocacy Day in the Capitol, featuring over 35 Members of Congress.
"The re-securitization and revitalization of the Nineveh Plain, allowing the repatriation of those who had to flee" is one next step that must be taken in follow up to the genocide determination made by the United States and the international community, Fortenberry stated this afternoon.
"The Nineveh Plain was once a thriving, pluralistic area of Iraq with a rich tapestry of religious and ethnic diversity. This resolution, which follows on the Government of Iraq’s own initiative to create a province in the Nineveh Plain region, seeks to restore the ancestral homeland of so many suffering communities.”
The resolution was introduced along with Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Rob Wittman (R-VA), Dan Donovan (R-NY), Andy Harris (R-MD), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Joe Pitts (R-PA).
IDC President Toufic Baaklini applauded Congressman Fortenberry for his continued leadership in the U.S. Congress to make the religious minorities of the Middle East a foreign policy priority for the United States. Earlier this year, Fortenberry’s bipartisan genocide resolution passed the United States House of Representatives by a vote of 393-0.
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About 12 years too late....
Iraq should have been split up into three or four countries after we took out Saddam.
Joe Bidens idea. We could populate the place with military age males and give them weapons. What happens when they demand independence? Hope it’s next to Kurdistan which can be cut out of 3 countries.
Nineveh includes Mosul.
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