[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24429]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        BEHEADINGS IN INDONESIA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share the outrage of the 
people of Indonesia with my colleagues regarding a case of horror that 
occurred this past weekend.
  While walking to school on the morning of Saturday, October 29, in 
Central Sulawesi, three teenage girls were attacked by Islamic 
extremists. The attackers murdered the young ladies by hacking them 
with machetes and eventually severing their heads from their bodies.
  Why this attack? They had done nothing wrong. They were simply 
teenage girls walking to school.
  As this horrible tragedy affirms, the Indonesian government must 
crack down strongly and firmly on these barbaric extremists in 
Indonesia. Otherwise, these terrifying events will continue.
  Photos are too graphic to show, but they show a young girl wearing a 
Princess Diaries t-shirt who will never again have the chance to dream 
like many little girls do of being a princess. Extremists have robbed 
her of her dream.
  I urge the Indonesian government to spare no resource in rooting out 
these extremist perpetrators and other human rights violators from 
Indonesian society.

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