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“SUPPORT SUDAN PEACE ACT” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6408 on Sept. 19, 2002.
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SUPPORT SUDAN PEACE ACT
(Mr. ARMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, over the past 20 years, over 2 million people have died and over 4 million have been driven from their homes in Sudan. Not by famine, flood or pestilence, but at the hands of people who claim a right to govern.
Mr. Speaker, people who engage in a systematic campaign of killing, terror, starvation, destruction and expulsion against the people of southern Sudan are not the fearless leaders we hope to see in power when times are rough. Rather, they are the heartless leaders who make times tough for their own people.
The government in Khartoum continues to brutalize the people in the south. Why? While we cannot know the darkness within their hearts, we know the roots of their hatred. We know that the Khartoum Government, known as the National Islamic Front, consists of those who are seeking to impose their version of Islam on the black Christians in the south, or destroy them if they do not get along. This is a religious crusade that uses genocide to convert disbelievers. The government wants to destroy the southern people because they are of a different race and religion.
We have one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time. Khartoum's self-proclaimed jihad against the south, driven by religious and racial hatred and a lust for oil, has killed more people than died in Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia combined.
Yesterday, September 18, marked the first day of the Vigil for Sudan. Thousands of people will be gathering outside the State Department at Galvez Park here in Washington to pray for the people of Sudan. We in Congress and all Americans should join with them. We cannot stand by. Let us finish our work on the Sudan Peace Act and be among those leaders who are fearless and who are not heartless.
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