[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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  URGING AMERICAN ACTION AGAINST THE MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN SERBIA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
February 11, 1994, the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] is 
recognized during morning business for 2 minutes.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Speaker, today the free world is witnessing 
tanks roll into Gorazde. This would not really be such a shame if you 
don't know what is going on. What is really happening here is, we have 
not seen like aggression taking place, and under U.S. leadership. The 
West has an arms embargo against the people of Gorazde, and this arms 
embargo prevents them from defending themselves against tanks and heavy 
artillery. We are treating the victims the same as the murderers. The 
arms embargo affects not only the Serbians but the people who are being 
attacked.
  President Clinton has known of this embargo since the day he became 
President of the United States. The free world's response to 100,000 
Bosnian Moslems being slaughtered by heavily armed Serbians has been 
economic sanctions and an embargo against both sides.
  Then, of course, a few days ago we dropped a few dud bombs on a 
Serbian tent. Of course, the Serbians continued their murderous assault 
on their neighbors. That is something that should turn the stomachs of 
every red-blooded American. The world should know now, because the word 
is out, that America may be suggesting to the Serbs that if they just 
withdraw from Gorazde after they have stamped the United Nations line 
into the dirt, if they just withdraw, perhaps some of the economic 
sanctions will be eased.
  Teddy Roosevelt said that the worst sin is to try to hit someone 
softly. Serbian aggression, the slaughter of their neighbors, the 
genocide on the Serbians' part in an attempt to grab the territory of 
their neighbors, should solicit from the West a strong response, or we 
should just ignore it and say we have no moral obligation to interfere.
  Either we should inform the world that we have no interest or we 
should act like leaders of the free world. If we are going to affect 
the decision of these gangsters in Belgrade who are slaughtering their 
neighbors, committing acts of genocide, we must have military actions 
against Serbia itself. We can destroy the military infrastructure. We 
can destroy it without hurting any Serbian civilians.
  We must act boldly as leaders of the West, or we will see this kind 
of genocide continue.

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