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Dan Burton: “I feel kind of honored that I would be put in the same category as Cyrano de Bergerac. Let me get to the point of the…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1997
I feel kind of honored that I would be put in the same category as Cyrano de Bergerac. Let me get to the point of the debate, talking about on this particular issue. Mr. Chairman, we talk about tragedies and human rights violations all over the world. Right now, in the news today, they were talking about digging up possibly hundreds, maybe thousands of bodies in Bosnia. And that is a tragedy. That is something we should be very concerned about because human rights violations, wherever they occur, should be brought to the attention of the world and should be stopped. We reprimand China for its draconian abortion policies and we threaten to stop international military and educational training, IMET, from Indonesia for abuses in East Timor. We talk about the struggles in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia that I just alluded to.
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Dan Burton
Indiana
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Discussing human rights violations and tragedies occurring globally, particularly in Bosnia.

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