[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17240]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORT SUDAN PEACE ACT

  (Mr. ARMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, over the past 20 years, over 2 million people 
have died and over 4 million have been driven from their homes in 
Sudan. Not by famine, flood or pestilence, but at the hands of people 
who claim a right to govern.
  Mr. Speaker, people who engage in a systematic campaign of killing, 
terror, starvation, destruction and expulsion against the people of 
southern Sudan are not the fearless leaders we hope to see in power 
when times are rough. Rather, they are the heartless leaders who make 
times tough for their own people.
  The government in Khartoum continues to brutalize the people in the 
south. Why? While we cannot know the darkness within their hearts, we 
know the roots of their hatred. We know that the Khartoum Government, 
known as the National Islamic Front, consists of those who are seeking 
to impose their version of Islam on the black Christians in the south, 
or destroy them if they do not get along. This is a religious crusade 
that uses genocide to convert disbelievers. The government wants to 
destroy the southern people because they are of a different race and 
religion.
  We have one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time. 
Khartoum's self-proclaimed jihad against the south, driven by religious 
and racial hatred and a lust for oil, has killed more people than died 
in Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia combined.
  Yesterday, September 18, marked the first day of the Vigil for Sudan. 
Thousands of people will be gathering outside the State Department at 
Galvez Park here in Washington to pray for the people of Sudan. We in 
Congress and all Americans should join with them. We cannot stand by. 
Let us finish our work on the Sudan Peace Act and be among those 
leaders who are fearless and who are not heartless.

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