Dan Burton: “He talked about Martin Luther King, but he did not mention that in India, if you are black, you will never be able to…”

“He talked about Martin Luther King, but he did not mention that in India, if you are black, you will never be able to rise above cleaning streets or cleaning toilets, and if you talk to anybody in a higher caste or even touch them, they can kill you. He talked about freedom and democracy and human rights. He even quoted Thomas Jefferson, but he did not comment about the T.A.D.A. law, which allows the government to take people out of their homes in the middle of the night and throw them into jail without any due process of law for up to 2 years. He did not talk about the 1.2 million Indian troops in Kashmir and Punjab and Jagaland and elsewhere persecuting Moslems, Sikhs, and Christians. He did not talk about the torture and the gang rapes that are taking place at the hands of the Indian troops in those areas. He did not talk about the disemboweling that is taking place, this kind of torture that is taking place, under the guise of freedom, democracy, and human rights. Mr. Speaker, we must tell the world the truth about what the Indian Government is sanctioning, and we must make sure that the world makes them change their policies, because freedom, democracy, and human rights truly should be recognized in India.”