Norvell Emerson: “As civil war approaches its third decade in Angola, a generation of…”

On the recordApril 12, 1994

As civil war approaches its third decade in Angola, a generation of children has been lost. No matter how many sites I visit to urge solutions to humanitarian disasters, it is the images of hungry children that haunt me the most. In Angola, the paradox of starving and malnourished children is especially insane. Angola is a green and fertile nation with thousands of miles of temperate Atlantic shoreline and has a vast supply of oil and diamonds. River valleys and rich savannas are made even more valuable by a relatively low population and density rate. There are no desert droughts in Angola. The nation is free of the geographical calamities affecting Somalia and Sudan. It is Angola's leaders who perpetuate the senseless tragedy affecting its 3.3 million people.

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Norvell Emerson

Republican · Missouri

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Discussing the humanitarian crisis in Angola during a speech on the House floor.

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Norvell Emerson: “As civil war approaches its third decade in Angola, a generation of children has been lost. No matter how many sites I…”

Editor's note · Context