[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4348]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS

  (Ms. WILSON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, we stand to remember the nearly 
300 Chibok girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014--2 
years ago--from their school in Nigeria.
  Mr. Speaker, Boko Haram has no regard for human life, and it is 
wreaking havoc on the citizens of northern Nigeria. As Boko Haram 
commits acts of genocide that will take generations to recover from, 
the world stays silent. Their daily horrors include killing Christians, 
killing Muslims who do not agree with them, beheading and slaughtering 
boys, kidnapping and raping women and girls, selling them as sex 
slaves, and using them as suicide bombers. Human trafficking is their 
specialty. Boko Haram believes that Western education is sin.
  We will never forget the schoolgirls. We will never forget the Chibok 
girls. We will tweet, wear red, and we look for them no matter how long 
it takes. We will never give up until we find them.
  Let us bow our heads in a moment of silence.

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