EDEN MP Rory Stewart has laid out a vision of how the international community can intervene to prevent future genocides.
Mr Stewart, chair of the Defence Select Committee, argued the community still has the skills, and the resources, to protect civilians around the world, and it needs to find the willpower and the understanding to do so.
Speaking at the signing of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, he paid tribute to those who were murdered during the Holocaust as well as praising the extraordinary Holocaust survivors who work tirelessly to educate young people.
He has published his conclusions in a book, with Amnesty International, entitled "Can Intervention Work?"
He said: “Having personally witnessed the pain and suffering caused by atrocities across the world - I served as a diplomat in Bosnia in the late 1990s, and in Iraq and Afghanistan subsequently - the act of signing this book carries deep significance.
"We must pledge to use every political and indeed military tool to ensure that these horrors can never happen again."
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