[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21146]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           ADDRESSING THE TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN BURMA

  (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, I rise today out of concern over the 
continued imprisonment and disappearance of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel 
Peace Prize winner and leader of the National League of Democracy in 
Burma.
  The cruel SPDC military dictatorship ruling Burma today imprisoned 
her in May of this year after their own government thugs attacked her 
and her supporters. Ms. Suu Kyi is now on a hunger strike in protest.
  Mr. Speaker, no country should be defending this savage dictatorship 
that has no qualms about engaging in slave labor, systematic rape, 
destruction of villages and the murder of many innocent civilians.
  What more will it take to get the international community to take 
deliberative, decisive action? Secretary General Kofi Annan and the 
U.N. Security Council should immediately act to secure the release of 
Aung San Suu Kyi, help alleviate the suffering of the people and 
address the terrible state of affairs in Burma.

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