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On the recordApril 21, 1994
one day, when generations of American school children learn about the brutality of man against man, they will recite the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, they will learn about the killing fields of Cambodia, and they will come to memorize the towns and the cities of Bosnia. To them, they will want to know where a generation of American leadership was when Serbian soldiers entered the towns of Bosnia and killed family after family; when the streets ran with blood; when hospitals and schools became killing grounds. They will want to know why the U.S. Navy was blockading the shores of Bosnia so that arms could not enter, so innocent people could defend themselves. To them, the excuses that there were legal difficulties and difficult precedents in violating the embargo to get help to these desperate people will ring hollow. All of us will want to be able to explain where we were. It is that which should be on the minds of President Clinton and the leadership of this Congress as the suffering endures.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey

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Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Bosnia during a congressional speech.

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