[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12130]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN SUDAN MAKE KOSOVO LOOK LIKE A SUNDAY SCHOOL 
                                 PICNIC

  (Mr. TANCREDO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. TANCREDO. Madam Speaker, the day before yesterday I returned from 
the Sudan where I had gone with a group of other congressmen to bring 
attention to the plight of the south Sudanese, to bring attention of 
the country of the United States to the horrible abuses that are going 
on in Sudan. In a nutshell, Madam Speaker, Sudan makes Kosovo look like 
a Sunday school picnic in terms of the human rights abuses being 
perpetrated in that country.
  We have heard from the President for the last several months about 
all of the reasons why we had to go into Kosovo, but I assure my 
colleagues that for every reason he gave us regarding Kosovo I could 
give 10 that pertain to the Sudan. The human rights abuses there are 
far greater; 2 million dead so far in their Civil War, true genocide 
going on, true slavery being undertaken by the north, raids into the 
south.
  It is amazing, Madam Speaker, that the attention of the United States 
is so easily drawn to Europe and so difficult to draw to the African 
continent.

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