[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11871]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED ON DARFUR

  (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, I rise today to talk about the continued 
reports of rape, mutilation, killings, and racism from Darfur, Sudan. 
The African Union, the U.N., the international community all know what 
is happening there. Women are raped and men are killed.
  Our government has called it genocide. The U.N. stopped short of 
using that term but has expressed concern. The fact is the extremist 
regime in Khartoum is engaging in an ethnic cleansing campaign, so-
called Arab Muslims brutalizing and attacking so-called black Muslims. 
One 21-year-old Sudanese woman was attacked by a group of uniformed men 
who said, ``You are black people. We want to wipe you out.''
  Madam Speaker, where is our outrage? Where is the outrage of the 
international community and the U.N.? We have no excuse because we know 
what is happening. The U.N. does not appear to have the ability to 
rally the public's popular support among its membership to act 
decisively because of a few powerful states undermining the process 
behind the scenes.
  The real question is, does the international community care enough to 
go after the Sudanese government and its puppet militias? I wish I 
could say we do. People are suffering because of our inaction and 
inaction of the U.N. and the international community.

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