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Dan Burton: I would just like to ask one question rhetorically and that is this: If you lived in a neighborhood and you were a…

On the recordJune 5, 1996
I would just like to ask one question rhetorically and that is this: If you lived in a neighborhood and you were a Muslim in Kashmir and they held you at gunpoint in your home and a bunch of soldiers took your wives down the street, out in the streets and gang raped them, do you think you would want to rebel and fight back?
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Addressing the situation of violence and oppression in Kashmir.

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