[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 14, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2491]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 BURMA

  (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, the U.S. has been calling for prompt action 
at the U.N. Security Council to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis 
in Burma. Unfortunately, other member nations have been slow to take up 
the call. One European nation even suggested recently that the world 
should wait for the situation in Burma to become urgent and acute 
before we take action.
  Mr. Speaker, Burma reportedly has close to a million IDPs, internally 
displaced people. Isn't that urgent? Over 3,000 villages have been 
brutally destroyed by the military dictatorship. Isn't that an acute 
situation? The latest story out of Burma tells of four teenage girls 
brutally raped and then thrown into prison by the military rulers, more 
evidence of their systematic sexual violence there. Isn't that an 
urgent problem?
  Mr. Speaker, there has been enough talk and enough delay. It is time 
for the world to take action and end the humanitarian crisis in Burma.

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