[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3978]
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                                 SUDAN

  (Mr. HALL of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I have just returned from a visit to 
Sudan's killing fields. As we all know, a civil war in that country has 
raged for 15 years and slavery is alive and well in this last dark 
corner of our world. But the situation is more desperate today than it 
has ever been.
  During my 4-day visit to the famine-stricken areas, I saw vultures 
pick clean the bones of people and their cows. They are slaughtering 
people and livestock alike, seizing human beings as slaves.
  One picture all the way over there, these are terrible, awful 
pictures, but we have a lot of pictures like that, that were just 
slaughtered and vultures just picking their bones.
  I also saw hundreds of survivors at aid stations. Many had lost their 
families along the way, and many will not survive. This little boy is 
one of them.
  I have not seen anything like what I saw in Sudan last week since I 
first saw Ethiopia's great famine in 1984, not in Rwanda, not in 
Somalia, not in North Korea, not anywhere. Today, 700,000 people like 
this are facing starvation in Sudan. If help does not arrive in the 
coming weeks, the planting will not be done and the crisis will 
continue into next year.
  This House, this country, indeed this world must do more to help 
these people. They are innocent. They are absolutely destitute, and 
they are being starved and slaughtered.

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