[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DO NOT TURN OUR BACK ON THE SUDAN

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, several weeks ago Cuba was reelected to the 
U.N. Human Rights Commission. Given the U.N.'s record, that is not 
surprising. But more shocking is the Human Rights Commission's 
treatment of the Sudan. From its northern perch in Khartoum, the 
Sudanese government has conducted a self-declared jihad against the 
country's Christian population in the south.
  The government has killed 2 million, allowed the enslavement of tens 
of thousands, and displaced nearly 5 million, and the death toll keeps 
rising. Somehow the U.N. is willing to ignore these facts.
  It has pulled all human rights observers and appears to have declared 
Sudan slave-free. But we cannot turn our back even if the U.N. has 
turned theirs. Sudan continues the enslavement and massacre of its 
Christian population. Sudan's complete disregard for human life and 
eager support of the slave trade deserve our condemnation.
  The Human Rights Commission should reverse its decision, and this 
Congress should continue to pressure Sudan to end the massacre of its 
own citizens.

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