[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 30 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SUDAN PEACE ACT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, even now, in the 21st century, atrocities are 
being committed in other countries that boggle the mind, and not always 
by individual terrorist groups. They are also being committed by 
governments.
  Yesterday, I joined my colleagues, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. 
Tancredo) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), in announcing 
the reintroduction of the Sudan Peace Act. What is going on in the 
Sudan is as bad as anything ever committed by any government anywhere: 
slavery, actual slavery, rape campaigns, starvation campaigns, 
intentional bombings of churches, schools, hospitals, markets, and 
villages are happening. This is how the radical Sudanese Khartoum 
regime intends to put down the Christians, the Animists in the south.
  The world community has completely failed to stand up to the Sudanese 
government. Our former Secretary of State, Madelyn Albright, said the 
crisis in the Sudan ``wasn't marketable.'' But yesterday, Secretary 
Powell indicated renewed, and I think heartfelt, interest in standing 
up to the Sudanese.
  Let us pass the Sudan Peace Act quickly and work with this 
administration to bring peace in that war-torn land.

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