[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 18, 1994]
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   CALLING FOR THE RECOGNITION OF TRUE FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN 
                            RIGHTS IN INDIA

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister of India spoke 
very eloquently from this lectern just a few minutes ago, but some of 
the things he did not talk about need to be illuminated.
  He talked about Martin Luther King, but he did not mention that in 
India, if you are black, you will never be able to rise above cleaning 
streets or cleaning toilets, and if you talk to anybody in a higher 
caste or even touch them, they can kill you.
  He talked about freedom and democracy and human rights. He even 
quoted Thomas Jefferson, but he did not comment about the T.A.D.A. law, 
which allows the government to take people our of their homes in the 
middle of the night and throw them into jail without any due process of 
law for up to 2 years.
  He did not talk about the 1.2 million Indian troops in Kashmir and 
Punjab and Jagaland and elsewhere persecuting Moslems, Sikhs, and 
Christians.
  He did not talk about the torture and the gang rapes that are taking 
place at the hands of the Indian troops in those areas. He did not talk 
about the disemboweling that is taking place, this kind of torture that 
is taking place, under the guise of freedom, democracy, and human 
rights.
  Mr. Speaker, we must tell the world the truth about what the Indian 
Government is sanctioning, and we must make sure that the world makes 
them change their policies, because freedom, democracy, and human 
rights truly should be recognized in India.

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