[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13477]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   BURMA SHOULD FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, shortly after I was elected to Congress 
15 years ago, I went to the jungles of Burma and met with a group of 
young people who were then struggling for freedom and democracy in 
their country. They showed me a picture of Thomas Jefferson and said, 
We do not like Karl Marx. We want to have a government like you have in 
the United States, where people are free.
  I will never forget that. They were up against one of the most brutal 
dictatorships in history, the SLORC regime, the military dictatorship 
that runs the country of Burma, although they would like to call it 
Myanmar.
  The bottom line is the SLORC dictatorship is still in power after all 
of these years, and they have just put under arrest Aung San Suu Kyi, 
one of the true heroes of freedom on this planet, a Nobel Prize winner. 
Aung San Suu Kyi, we do not know where she is. She is under arrest. 
They murdered and brutalized many of the democratic activists there.
  Today, this Congress needs to be aware of what is going on in Burma, 
and we must warn the dictators in Burma they will not get away with the 
dirty deed if they have touched one hair on the head of Aung San Suu 
Kyi.

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