[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 11 (Tuesday, February 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 8, 1994]
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                          STOP HAITI SANCTIONS

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, nationalist zealots 
murdered 68 innocent civilians in Bosnia. The world and many in this 
Congress expressed outrage.
  Tragically, the sanctions imposed on Haiti by this administration are 
killing innocent Haitian babies. In the 2 days during that same weekend 
in Bosnia, more than 70 infants died in Haiti, and no one spoke out.
  In fact, more than 1,000 Haitian infants now die each month because 
of the United States' economic sanctions imposed on Haiti. And no one 
seems to care.
  What seems even worse, this week the United States will ask the 
United Nations to impose even tougher economic sanctions on Haiti.
  Despite evidence that the ruling military thugs and criminals are 
unaffected by these sanctions, we plan to step up our baby-killing 
policy.
  How much more suffering can we impose on the oppressed Haitian 
people? Haiti is becoming an even greater hell on earth than Bosnia, 
under our charge and in our backyard.
  This week we may not be able to stop the killing in Bosnia, but we 
can end the infant deaths in Haiti.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in sending a letter to President 
Clinton urging him to end United States sanctions, restore democracy in 
Haiti, and demand United Nations action now to end this disgrace in the 
Western Hemisphere.

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