[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 13, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE WORLD TO STAND BY WHILE BOKO HARAM KILLS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today again to join my 
colleagues whom you will hear from to challenge this dastardly act of 
our 300 girls that remain captured, abused, violated, impregnated, and 
maybe even married into the horrors of Boko Haram. These women and 
these voices that you see are the very women that we met when we went 
to Borno State just last year as they pleaded to be able to bring the 
girls back, but now their voices were turned toward the 2,000 who have 
been killed by the horrors of Boko Haram.
  So, Mr. Speaker, as I join my colleagues today, I ask for a global 
response in the war on Boko Haram, a global response from the African 
Union, a global response from the United Nations, and a global response 
from the world to fight against Boko Haram and, at the same time, to 
save the boys that are being recruited by this violent and horrible 
leader. This leader is turning these young boys into violent killers. 
2,000 dead bodies are all over the ground, and our girls now are still 
suffering.
  So to these beautiful women who are now still in the midst saying 
bring the girls back, I want to tell them that we are coming to the 
rescue. We will not allow the world to stand by while Boko Haram kills.

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