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Howard Berman: my comments were directed to what happened in the State of Punjab, which is the area of India which the gentleman…

On the recordJune 5, 1996
my comments were directed to what happened in the State of Punjab, which is the area of India which the gentleman addressed his initial comments to when he spoke. There is no doubt the Indian Elections Commission has affirmed that there was coercion and intimidation in the vote in Kashmir. We can spend the next 2 hours talking about the miserable problems in Kashmir, the terrorism, the state militias that are wreaking havoc there, but let me tell the gentleman one interesting thing about the election in Kashmir.
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Howard Berman
California

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Discussing issues related to elections and violence in Kashmir during a congressional debate.

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