[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12303]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          ATROCITIES IN BURMA

  (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 over the comments made by the 
brutal generals, military dictators in Burma, saying that Aung San Suu 
Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and rightful leader elected by the 
people, deserves to be flogged. Come again?
  These are the generals who stonewalled for weeks and refused to allow 
desperately needed humanitarian aid to get to the people after the 
cyclone, who order their military to attack ethnic groups throughout 
the country, who in 1988 issued a blood assimilation order to their 
troops to marry or rape the ethnic women in order to ``purify'' the 
ethnic's blood line, who forcibly conscript children to serve as child 
soldiers in their army, who plant land mines around the villages they 
attack so that returning villagers get maimed or killed, who pillage or 
plunder the resources of Burma so they can have huge weddings with 
millions of dollars of jewels around the necks of their daughters.
  It is the SPDC generals, brutal dictators with their crimes against 
humanity and campaigns of ethnic cleansing who deserve to be stripped 
of power and placed under arrest for many years to come.

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