[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 106 (Friday, July 15, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H5110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SUDANESE WAR CRIMES AGAINST NUBA CIVILIANS
(Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute.)
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, thanks to the courageous
reporting of two journalists for Al Jazeera's English network, Callum
Macrae and John D. McHugh, who risked their lives to find the truth, we
have shocking evidence of war crimes committed by the Sudanese Armed
Forces against Nuba civilians in Sudan's South Kordofan province.
Here in this photo is a 2-year-old victim of an air strike, and here
is a bomb crater in the middle of this Nuba village--50-feet wide and
15-feet deep. Here, Mr. Speaker, is satellite imagery analyzed by
Harvard University's Humanitarian Initiative that reveals evidence of
mass graves outside South Kordofan's capital of Kadugli.
At this moment, Mr. Speaker, as the U.S. personnel hide behind their
barracks walls, the SAF are hunting men, women and children on foot, in
fighter jets, and with bombs rolled out of back doors of cargo aircraft
onto Nuba villages. Where does the United Nations stand as the Nuba are
wiped out? Where do we stand?
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