[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CONDEMNING BOKO HARAM

  (Ms. KELLY of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, it has been a year since 276 
girls were abducted from Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria by 
the militant Islamic group Boko Haram. Since then, we have heard 
numerous tales of unspeakable atrocities committed by the group, the 
continued abductions of schoolgirls who have been trafficked and 
murdered, and the sickening discovery of a mass grave with beheaded 
remains in a formerly Boko Haram-held territory in northern Nigeria.
  Just when we thought that Boko Haram had reached its evil peak, the 
group swears an unholy alliance to ISIL.
  I would like to commend my House colleagues for unanimously passing a 
resolution I introduced condemning Boko Haram. It sent a strong message 
to the world that America will never tolerate terrorism, and this 
Congress will never abide terrorists.
  We must continue to stand together to fight Boko Haram's brutal 
victimization of innocent men, women, and children, and defend the 
basic human right of schoolgirls in Nigeria and around the world to 
receive an education. We can never forget our girls, and we can never 
forgive the cowardly crimes of Boko Haram.

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