Dan Burton: “President Clinton wants to improve his foreign policy image and I have a suggestion for him: Tomorrow in this Chamber…”

“President Clinton wants to improve his foreign policy image and I have a suggestion for him: Tomorrow in this Chamber the Prime Minister of India will be speaking to a joint session of Congress and the President will have an opportunity to talk with the Prime Minister of India. Madam Speaker, right now in northwestern India in a place called Punjab, in a place called Kashmir, 1.1 million Indian troops are gang-raping women, torturing men, women and children, putting people in jail without just cause, without any due process of law, and horrible things go on day and night and it has been going on for years. Madam Speaker, just recently a woman named Kanwar Singh Dhami in Punjab who was about 6 months pregnant was hung upside down by her heels for several hours until she had a miscarriage because her husband and she and her 6-year-old son believe in human rights, democracy, and freedom in Punjab. In Kashmir a wedding party consisting of the bride, the groom and a bunch of people was stopped, their bus was ransacked and the bride was gang-raped. Madam Speaker, we need to tell the Prime Minister of India we will not tolerate those kinds of human rights abuses.”