[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BOKO HARAM MUST BE STOPPED

  (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, in June, I joined colleagues on 
a trip to Nigeria. The focus of the journey was the kidnapping of 270 
innocent young girls at the hands of Boko Haram terrorists. It has now 
been 5 months since they were taken from school and from their families 
off to unimaginable circumstances.
  Since then, Boko Haram has only become more brutal and more vicious, 
continuing its rampage in Nigerian villages killing, torturing, 
kidnapping, raping, burning, and announcing the creation of an Islamic 
state in northeast Nigeria.
  Their reign of terror has been overshadowed on the world stage by 
events elsewhere. Overshadowed but not forgotten, Boko Haram must be 
stopped, and the girls must be brought home.

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