[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 165 (Monday, October 29, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H12134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONDEMNING THE ATTACKS ON AFRICAN UNION PEACEKEEPERS IN HASKANITA, 
                             DARFUR, SUDAN

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, today on the floor of the 
House, I was very pleased to have debated H. Res. 740 that I authored 
with Congressman Chabot from Ohio and joined by 55 of my colleagues.
  This resolution denounced the attack on African Union peacekeepers. 
And it was a result of the codel led by myself, joined by Congressman 
Chabot and Congressman Smith from Nebraska, the first codel to go into 
Darfur since the signing of the agreement dealing with the 
peacekeepers.
  It is time now for our eyes to focus on a safe return of those who 
have suffered to their homeland, 2.4 million displaced Sudanese, 
Darfurians, who live in a state of flux and fear.
  It is an outrage that these peacekeepers would be attacked. It is an 
outrage that, as the African Union has stood up to be counted and 
provided soldiers on the field to protect those refugees, it is an 
outrage that they are being attacked.
  We ask the U.N. to intervene to provide more peacekeepers. We ask 
that the genocide stop. And we ask that Khartoum recognize that they 
have an obligation to the people of Sudan. Stop the genocide.

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