[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14972]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME TO ACT ON CRISIS IN BURMA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of freedom-loving 
people in Burma. This week there is a delegation of leaders from Burma, 
ethnic minority leaders, visiting Washington. The information they 
bring is a stark reminder of the brutality to the Burmese people under 
the military junta.
  The terrible offensive of 2006 continues against the ethnic Karen 
people and others. Over 3,000 villages have been burned. There have 
been over 25,000 new internally displaced people in that one province.
  How can we turn our backs on people who are being ethnically cleansed 
through genocide, raped, shot, maimed by land mines and who watch their 
villages and food sources be destroyed daily? The U.S. and the 
international community must help provide more humanitarian assistance 
and protection for them.
  We need to continue to push for a U.N. Security Council resolution on 
Burma. The U.S. needs to renew its sanctions against dictators. We need 
to get direct humanitarian aid to the people.
  It is time to act. The people of Burma deserve to live safely and 
peacefully in their own land.

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