Dan Burton: “we have talked about human rights violations that may or may not have taken place 70 years ago, but what I want to talk…”

“we have talked about human rights violations that may or may not have taken place 70 years ago, but what I want to talk about tonight are human rights violations that are taking place today. First of all, let me just say if we were not even talking about human rights violations, this amendment would make sense, because what it does is it freezes assistance to India at last year's spending level. We are not cutting the aid to India, the developmental assistance, we are just freezing it at last year's spending level. The administration and the bill chose to raise it by $8.3 million. So what we are doing really is not cutting anything, we are just freezing spending at last year's level, but it will save $8.3 million because we are not going to allow the increase. So if for no other reason than the fiscal impact, this bill makes some sense. But let us talk about what is going on in India today in a place called Kashmir, Punjab, Nagaland, and elsewhere. More than 150,000 Sikhs have been killed by the Indian regime since 1984. This includes more than 40,000 killed in the Delhi massacre, over 20,000 killed in the Golden Temple attack, and 25,000 killings documented by other leaders over there. India has also killed over 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947 and more than 40,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988 and tens of thousands of Tamils and others.”