[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6117-6118]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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       MOURNING ASSASSINATION OF SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER DJINDJIC

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I want to join the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Dreier) in his comments about Mr. Djindjic, the Prime Minister of 
Serbia. Serbia in the 1990s, like Iraq has gone through, was under the 
heel of

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a despot who was vicious and who in my opinion was a war criminal. When 
the United States acted to displace the Milosevic regime and ultimately 
Milosevic was voted out of office because we went into Kosovo, it was 
Mr. Djindjic who showed the courage and the moral commitment to ensure 
that Mr. Milosevic would be transferred to The Hague to answer for his 
crimes. That trial currently is going on. It is going on because Mr. 
Djindjic had the courage to facilitate the transfer out of Serbia to 
The Hague of the alleged war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.
  He has now been assassinated. We do not know yet who the perpetrator 
of that assassination is. Suffice it to say, we have lost someone whose 
courage and commitment to freedom and human rights was an important 
aspect for his country and for the international community. We are a 
lesser international community for his loss.

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