[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     STOP THE KILLING IN KOSOVA NOW

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I apologize in advance to my colleagues and 
to the American people who may be offended by what I am about to show 
but I think it is very, very important in view of the events of today 
that we show this.
  This is a poster. It shows a dead child who was killed with ethnic 
cleansing in Kosova, and it says his mother will never have to see him 
this way. They killed her, too.
  My colleagues, this is what is going on today in Kosova, and I say 
Kosova because 92 percent of the population, the ethnic Albanians who 
live there, call it Kosova and they were being ethnically cleansed.
  We need to stop it. We need to support the bombing. We need to 
support NATO troops on the ground. NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization. It is concerned about genocide in Europe as it rightly 
should be.
  Milosevic, the Serbian leader, has broken every agreement to which he 
has agreed. The U.S. vital interests are there. We have a vital 
interest to stop genocide. We have a vital interest to stop a wider war 
which will surely happen in the Balkans if we sit back and do nothing. 
It could suck in our allies, Greece and Turkey and Hungary and other 
countries.
  We need to support U.S. troops. We need to support the bombing. Stop 
the killing in Kosova now. Stop the genocide and the ethnic cleansing.

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