Dan Burton: “I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that these things are occurring. All I am asking tonight is to send a signal.…”

“I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that these things are occurring. All I am asking tonight is to send a signal. I am not saying cut off all developmental aid to India, I am not saying cut off every dollar, although I think we should. We should not be supporting a regime like that. But what I am saying is let us just send one little signal to the Indian Government that the United States Congress does not want to stand still for human rights violations, and the way to do that is to freeze spending at last year's spending level. We are not even asking to cut it. Just freeze it at last year's level and do not give them an $8.3 million increase. The people over there every night go to bed in fear for their lives, not knowing if they are going to be dragged out in the middle of the night to be tortured or killed or raped. It is time to at least give them some solace by letting them know that the Congress of the United States does care about human rights and does care about what is going on in that part of the world.”