Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question and I congratulate him on his staying power at this late hour.
It is indeed a good question. It brings up some rather technical distinctions between what constitutes genocide and what constitutes ethnic cleansing. In simple terms, as I understand genocide, it is simply that you lock the people in and you kill them all. Ethnic cleansing is a more selective process. I must admit that if I were a victim, I would not appreciate the distinction. The distinction would probably be lost on me, as I would be dead either way.
As to the use of international institutions to bring some justice to this situation, it seems to me that we have caught ourselves in a bit of a contradictory position. For certain purposes we want to use international institutions, but we readily abandon international institutions for other purposes.
As I said in my speech, I think we are in something of a moral quagmire here. We are not being consistent with our overall commitment to international law.
We seem to want to have it both ways. We want to use international institutions for certain purposes, but for other purposes, for instance if we cannot get a resolution from the United Nations, we just walk away from it, abandon it. I think we will pay for that decision.