[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 12, 1994]
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                  THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ON BURMA

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, as seldom as this happens, I would like 
to rise today to compliment the Clinton administration from this side 
of the aisle. The compliment I would like to give the Clinton 
administration is recently acknowledged that the Clinton administration 
will be having a tough policy towards the Government of Burma, the 
dictatorship of Burma, rather than a conciliatory approach to this 
dictatorship.
  The word is out that instead of trying to cooperate with this group 
of gangsters that are strangling the life out of their own people that 
this administration has instead chosen to be tough with these people 
who are in control and say, instead, the United States is for freedom. 
We are on the side of the people instead of the side of the 
dictatorship.
  There have been many in this town who have been asking for 
cooperation with the dictatorship in Burma especially over drug 
eradication. There are many drug lords in the northern part of Burma.
  What the people of Burma know and what many people who are opposed to 
the dictatorship know is that the government is working hand-in-hand 
with the drug lords. We need to be struggling against those drug lords, 
and that means taking a firm stand for democracy, because when the 
people are in charge of the government, they will get rid of the drug 
lords in Burma.
  I commend the Clinton administration for this stand for democracy and 
freedom in Southeast Asia.

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