[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 75 (Monday, May 19, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H4461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  BOKO HARAM MUST STOP, AND END IT NOW

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, it was quiet around the dormitory deep 
in the heart of Borno, in northern Nigeria, where the landscape is 
barren and life is hard.
  In the middle of that April night, gunshots fired and then almost 300 
girls were kidnapped, and they remain missing. A night that no one can 
forget. This picture shows it all: a mother with a candle mourning that 
loss.
  Mr. Speaker, we can no longer remain silent in any way. I thank 
President Obama for the assets of the FBI and intelligence, and 
certainly some military assets. But to the Nigerian government, those 
of us who have been friends and have worked with this government, 
enough is enough.
  We need to find every resource: U.N. peacekeepers, the African Union, 
and any other resource that will help strategize to find those girls. 
There needs to be a targeted military unit from the Nigerian military 
that is utilizing the resources of others to help them safely rescue 
those girls.
  Enough is enough. The slaughter by this terrorist group must stop. 
Boko Haram must stop, and end it now.

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