Extract from committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Telecommunications (Security) Bill - July 13
Wednesday, 14 July 2021 07:56
Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB):...However, there are certain markers
that we can look to. One of them is our legal duty under the 1948
convention on the crime of genocide. This is not a word to be used
lightly. The word “genocide” came into our vocabulary thanks to a
Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, who had seen over 40 of his
own family murdered in the holocaust During the proceedings on the
telecoms infrastructure Bill last year, I gave examples from that
period of how companies such...Request free trial
(CB):...However, there are certain
markers that we can look to. One of them is our legal duty under
the 1948 convention on the crime of genocide. This is not a word to
be used lightly. The word “genocide” came into our vocabulary
thanks to a Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, who had seen over
40 of his own family murdered in the holocaust During the proceedings on the
telecoms infrastructure Bill last year, I gave examples from that
period of how companies such as Philips had their own forced labour
in the camps where people were dying. I gave the example of Corrie
ten Boom, a Dutch woman who had given refuge to escaping Jewish
people trying to flee the holocaust She and her sister were
arrested and sent to work in that factory; her sister died there.
Corrie ten Boom wrote a deeply moving book called The Hiding Place.
That is the comparison I seek to draw...
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