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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the view expressed by the then Prime Minister in 2016, speaking about events in Syria and northern Iraq, that \u201cthere is a very strong case here for saying that it is genocide, and I hope that it will be portrayed and spoken of as such\u201d, what assessment they have made of the extent to which actions taken in those areas constitute genocide.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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