Dan Burton: “Inaccurate information. Human Rights Watch. My colleagues, I hear them…”

On the recordAugust 2, 1999

Inaccurate information. Human Rights Watch. My colleagues, I hear them quoting from them all the time. Amnesty International, I hear my colleagues quoting them all the time. They quote them all the time. They sit over there, and they smile and they laugh. Amnesty International Human Rights Watch, the 1999 report that just came out, 1999 report: gang raping women, gang raping women, torturing people, throwing people in canals with their hands tied behind their back and their feet tied, drowning them; and that is an error? Come on, guys. My colleagues are obviously concerned about constituents of theirs who lobby them hard. I understand that. But the fact of the matter is these things are going on, and we are not doing a damn thing about it.

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Dan Burton

Indiana

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Addressing human rights abuses reported by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

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Dan Burton: “Inaccurate information. Human Rights Watch. My colleagues, I hear them quoting from them all the time. Amnesty…”

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