[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 41 (Thursday, March 13, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H1875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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       MOURNING ASSASSINATION OF SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER DJINDJIC

  (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, I want to join the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Dreier) in his comments about Mr. Djindjic, the Prime Minister of 
Serbia. Serbia in the 1990s, like Iraq has gone through, was under the 
heel of a despot who was vicious and who in my opinion was a war 
criminal. When the United States acted to displace the Milosevic regime 
and ultimately Milosevic was voted out of office because we went into 
Kosovo, it was Mr. Djindjic who showed the courage and the moral 
commitment to ensure that Mr. Milosevic would be transferred to The 
Hague to answer for his crimes. That trial currently is going on. It is 
going on because Mr. Djindjic had the courage to facilitate the 
transfer out of Serbia to The Hague of the alleged war criminal 
Slobodan Milosevic.
  He has now been assassinated. We do not know yet who the perpetrator 
of that assassination is. Suffice it to say, we have lost someone whose 
courage and commitment to freedom and human rights was an important 
aspect for his country and for the international community. We are a 
lesser international community for his loss.

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