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Dan Burton: “If there is a gun pointed at an individual's back taking that person to the polls, and that person goes in and votes…”

On the recordJune 5, 1996
If there is a gun pointed at an individual's back taking that person to the polls, and that person goes in and votes, they are not going to turn in a blank ballot. The gentleman knows that and I know that. When we talk about Punjab and Kashmir, we are talking about two areas that are very similar in many respects and not so similar in others, except in one respect, and that is there is torture and human rights violations going on by 1.1 million Indian troops, and that is the problem.
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing human rights violations in Punjab and Kashmir.

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