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Abir Al Sahlani adressing the European Parliament: Abir Al-Sahlani is an Iraqi-born Swedish Member of the

European Parliament and since July 2019 a member of the European Parliament, representing the Centre Party.

I am tired of watching powerful men destroy the rules-based international order

and then ask the rest of the world to accept the consequences.

Wars are started. Occupations are upheld. Humanitarian aid is weaponised. International law is ignored.

And the price is paid by women, children, persons with disabilities and civilians who never chose these conflicts.

Peace is not built by statements.

Peace is built when powerful people finally face consequences.

Al Sahlani was born in Basra, Iraq in 1976[4] to a middle class Iraqi family. Her father, Faisal Sahlani, was a leading

opposition politician. He was a member of the Communist Party, which at that time, was banned by Saddam Hussein's

Ba'athist regime. She left Iraq with her mother, fleeing the brutality of the former regime, leaving behind her father,

a political prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison.[5] Al Sahlani arrived in Sweden alone at the age of 15 and began her political

career soon afterwards.[6] - Wikipedia