[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 21, 1994]
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         GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA--A DARK CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY

  (Mr. TORRICELLI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, one day, when generations of American 
school children learn about the brutality of man against man, they will 
recite the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, they will learn about 
the killing fields of Cambodia, and they will come to memorize the 
towns and the cities of Bosnia.
  To them, they will want to know where a generation of American 
leadership was when Serbian soldiers entered the towns of Bosnia and 
killed family after family; when the streets ran with blood; when 
hospitals and schools became killing grounds. They will want to know 
why the U.S. Navy was blockading the shores of Bosnia so that arms 
could not enter, so innocent people could defend themselves.
  To them, the excuses that there were legal difficulties and difficult 
precedents in violating the embargo to get help to these desperate 
people will ring hollow. All of us will want to be able to explain 
where we were.
  It is that which should be on the minds of President Clinton and the 
leadership of this Congress as the suffering endures.

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