[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    LET THIS BE LAST TIME WE MARK ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE IN DARFUR

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, 3 years ago, the Congress named the 
humanitarian crisis in Darfur as genocide. Naming is really important, 
because once we've acknowledged the hundreds of thousands of innocent 
lives that have been lost there, we have a responsibility to act. And 
yet the disastrous crisis continues on today.
  I visited Darfur. I've seen the situation on the ground. And now the 
high-tech GPS satellites and mass media allow everyone to bear witness 
to the tragedies in Darfur; the burnt holes where villages used to be, 
the mass migrations of internally displaced, starving children, victims 
of rape.
  I want to thank the student groups, the faith organizations and the 
Americans around the country who have worked to raise this issue's 
profile and to keep Darfur on the agenda.
  Last month, the Sudanese Government allowed a combined U.N.-African 
Union peacekeeping force. The Democratic majority approved $949 million 
in humanitarian aid, but we have to go further. Let this be the last 
time we mark the anniversary of genocide.

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