[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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   AMERICA SHOULD DISCONTINUE ITS SUPPORT OF THE ARMS EMBARGO IN THE 
                           FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

  (Mr. TORRICELLI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, for more than a generation we told 
ourselves it was never going to happen again. After the destruction of 
the Armenian people by the Ottomans, the Jews by the Nazis, and the 
Cambodians by Pol Pot, we were going to live in a more civilized time 
when the international community would not sit idly by during genocide. 
Tell that today to the people of Bosnia. Tell it to the 60,000 poor 
souls encircled and being overrun today in Gorazde. For them it means 
nothing.
  What is it that the international community does to these safe areas? 
Two airplanes, dropping four bombs, while tanks roll through city 
streets, taking potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.
  President Clinton says, accurately, there is an international 
embargo. We cannot unilaterally lift it. We cannot unilaterally defy 
it. Perhaps, Mr. President, but we do not have to be enforcing it, 
either. Withdraw the U.S. Navy from the Adriatic, pull America out of 
this enforcement, allow these poor, desperate people to get the arms 
they want to buy with their own money to defend their own families with 
their own lives, lest we be in complicity in yet another international 
genocide.

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