[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 175 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H11789-H11790]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DAVID ROHDE HELD HOSTAGE

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, as the peace negotiations between the warring 
parties in the Bosnian conflict continue in Dayton, an American 
journalist continues to be incarcerated and held hostage by the Bosnian 
Serbs.
  David Rohde, a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, was 
responsible for exposing the killing fields near Srebrenica in eastern 
Bosnia. He is now being held in captivity, detained by those 
responsible, the Bosnian Serbs. They have charged him with, and I 
quote, ``Illegal border crossings and falsifying documents.'' He has 
been tried and convicted by what our own State Department has called, 
rightfully, a kangaroo court. He has, Mr. 

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Speaker, become a pawn of the Serbs in their peace negotiations.
  I suspect that Milosevic and his gang think they can use David Rohde 
as a bargaining chip in order to have us reduce our demands that the 
Serbs remove war criminals Karakzic and Mladic from their commands as 
part of any peace agreement. They are wrong.
  Mr. Speaker, I am today urging the Clinton administration to demand 
that David Rohde and other noncombatant personnel, including all U.N. 
military and civilian personnel, be immediately released.

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