[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S15770-S15771]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ATROCITIES IN BOSNIA

  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Thank you, Mr. President, and I thank the Senator 
from New Mexico.
  I want to talk for 2 minutes about the atrocities that we believe may 
be going on right now in Bosnia. I have submitted a sense-of-the-Senate 
resolution so that the Senate can speak out against these atrocities 
and ask the Bosnian Serb leadership to stop forthwith anything that 
might be going on that is a crime in the area of Banja Luka.
  We saw in the Washington Post this morning and in the New York Times 
last week what now appears to be mass murders in Srebrenica by the 
Serbs in July. The problem, Mr. President, is this may be going on 
right now around Banja Luka. I want the U.S. Senate to speak 
forcefully, asking the Serb leadership, if they are going to try to sit 
down at a peace table, that the least they can do is allow our 
Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck, people from the United 
Nations, people from the Red Cross into the Banja Luka area to certify 
that there are not mass murders going on right now to account for 

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the men who have been rounded up in factories, in stadiums and, if they 
are still alive, to let them go back to their families and, if there 
are crimes being committed, to stop them forthwith.
  I think it is time that we as a Senate, on a bipartisan basis, speak 
loudly and clearly.
  My sense-of-the-Senate resolution has been filed as an amendment. It 
is Hutchison, McCain, Lieberman, Stevens, Levin and Thomas, and many 
cosponsors are coming from both sides of the aisle.
  Mr. President, we must speak and the Serb leadership must stand up 
and say these atrocities have stopped.
  Thank you, Mr. President, and I thank the manager of the bill for 
letting me speak on this very important subject. If we can stop one 
murder right now, it will be worth it.
  I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.