[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 BURMA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the peaceful protestors in Burma deserve our 
support, and the brutal generals in charge of the SPDC must be held 
accountable.
  Reports on the number of deaths ordered by the dictatorship range 
from hundreds to thousands. It's difficult to get specific numbers, 
particularly as other reports detail the regime burning dead bodies so 
that no one can get an accurate count of the dead and disappeared.
  One new image shows the badly bruised and semi-dressed body of a 
Buddhist monk floating face down in the Rangoon River.
  The regime has also no respect for journalists. A Japanese journalist 
was shot point blank by the dictator's troops, and the regime detained 
other journalists.
  One senior Burmese intelligence official is claiming that thousands 
of protesters are dead, and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks 
have been dumped in the jungle.
  We must do everything possible to press the regime to stop the 
killing and detentions. This includes sanctions against the regime, 
specifically freezing bank accounts of members of the dictatorship.
  The people of Burma deserve to live in peace and freedom.

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