[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 74 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  THE BOMBING IN YUGOSLAVIA MUST STOP AND DIPLOMATIC MEASURES TOWARDS 
                       PEACE MUST BE ACCELERATED

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, last night three innocent people died and 
scores were injured in the bombing of a Belgrade hospital by NATO air 
forces.
  This tragedy, taken with the NATO bombing of the Swedish Ambassador's 
residence, the recent NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, 
the NATO bombing of refugee convoys, the NATO bombing of passenger 
buses and trains and other civilian infrastructure, raises grave 
questions about the strategy and the morality of NATO's actions.
  It is no longer acceptable for NATO to blithely declare that the mass 
of civilian casualties resulting from the bombings are unintentional 
and therefore simply accidental. When such accidents keep repeating 
themselves and result in the countless deaths of innocent people, it is 
time to say this must stop.
  The continued bombing and the consequent catastrophic parade of 
innocent human carnage, and NATO's arrogant willingness to endanger 
innocent civilians, even to mothers giving birth in hospitals, forfeits 
NATO's claim to the moral high ground. The bombing must stop, and 
diplomatic measures towards peace must be accelerated.

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