[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 51 (Wednesday, April 14, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING WILL NOT PREVAIL IN KOSOVO

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, today, along with the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Sanford), I am introducing a bill which will provide $25 
million to arm and train the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army. It is 
similar to a bill put forward by Senators McConnell and Lieberman in 
the Senate.
  If we do not want to have the NATO troops on the ground, and let me 
say I think troops should be an option here, because we must win the 
war and show Milosevic that genocide and ethnic cleansing will not 
prevail.
  But the only alternative to NATO troops or perhaps to supplement NATO 
troops on the ground right now is the KLA. In my opinion, we ought to 
be air dropping anti-tank weaponry to them. In the long run, we need to 
build them up as a viable force to fight the Serbs and to drive the 
Serbs out of Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing cannot prevail.
  Milosevic is the problem. He is not the solution. We should not be 
negotiating with him. He is going to try to widen this war. We have to 
win this war. We must do it now.
  In the long range, independence for Kosovo is the only solution. No 
partition of Kosovo. I was one of the Democrats that supported 
President Bush in the Persian Gulf War. We need to have great support 
right now for the President. I regret the remarks of the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts). We need to rally around the President, not 
divide ourselves.

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