[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 194 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2593]
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                     LETTER TO GEN PERVEZ MUSHARRAF

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                             HON. DAVID WU

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, December 17, 2007

  Mr. WU. Madam Speaker, I rise to enter into the Record the text of a 
letter authored by Dean Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School and signed 
by numerous prominent law school deans, professors, and students to GEN 
Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan denouncing his recent assault on the rule 
of law in his country. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

       We the undersigned lawyers, deans, professors, law 
     students, and law school administration and staff denounce in 
     the strongest terms General Pervez Musharraf's recent assault 
     on the rule of lay in Pakistan. By suspending the 
     Constitution; dissolving the Supreme Court and the provincial 
     High Courts and replacing them with judges of his own 
     choosing; engaging in arbitrary and unprovoked arrests of 
     thousands of opposition leaders, journalists, and other law-
     abiding citizens; and violently suppressing protests by 
     hundreds of lawyers who were acting in the highest tradition 
     of our profession, General Musharraf is trampling upon the 
     very system of law that alone can justify a ruler's power 
     over his people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow 
     lawyers and the democratic values that they represent, and we 
     urge an early restoration of legality and legitimate 
     authority in Pakistan.
           Sincerely,
     Harold Hongju Koh,
       Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of 
     International Law, Yale Law School.

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