[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 21, 1994]
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                    WITHDRAWAL OF U.N. TROOPS URGED

  (Ms. SLAUGHTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, this morning an inaptly named ``safe 
haven'' of Gorazde teeters on annihilation. Throughout this whole 
disaster we have watched as U. N. troops have been totally unable to 
keep the peace. A very drastic example of this was one incident where 
the United Nations was taking the Vice President of Bosnia to the 
airport. Serbian troops came up; opened the back door of the car, being 
driven by the United Nations, and shot him dead.
  U.N. troops have been unable to stop the rapes of thousands of 
Bosnian women. They have been unable to enforce any cease-fire. They 
have been unable to deliver on protecting any badly needed convoy that 
is carrying medicine and food to people in drastic need.
  Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, it is time that the United Nations at least 
consider the possibility of withdrawing the U.N. troops. They have been 
a considerable bone of contention between our European allies and 
ourselves because we do not have troops on the ground. Possible 
retaliation against those troops has kept us from really doing anything 
effective.
  Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that we do remove those troops, so that 
the United States and NATO-Forces are able to exercise the pinpoint 
bombing ability for which we have praised ourselves and paid a fortune. 
Once and for all, stop those guns lest we are watching the beginning of 
world war III.

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