[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19934]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    BRUTALITY IN BURMA BEING IGNORED

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the government of Burma has engaged in 
repressive, brutally violent tactics against its people.
  Earlier this week we heard testimony of women, children and men being 
raped, forced into slave labor, and watching their villages and food 
sources destroyed. Squadrons of Burmese military have tortured and 
murdered villagers throughout the country.
  One eyewitness recounts this horror: ``Before the military killed 
them they captured them, they did not feed them rice or give them water 
for 7 days. They beat them and punched each of their faces more than 
500 times. They sliced their legs and arms and dried them in the hot 
sun. They stabbed them at least 200 times each. They abused them until 
they cut out their intestines and then pushed them back in their gut, 
but didn't kill them right away. They kept them like that day and night 
and then killed them in the jungle.''
  In light of these atrocities, why does Burma not get more attention 
by the international community?
  Mr. Speaker, the international community must do something to assist 
these people who have suffered for too many years at the hands of this 
brutal dictatorship.

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