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On the recordMay 19, 2014
It was quiet around the dormitory deep in the heart of Borno, in northern Nigeria, where the landscape is barren and life is hard. In the middle of that April night, gunshots fired and then almost 300 girls were kidnapped, and they remain missing. A night that no one can forget. This picture shows it all: a mother with a candle mourning that loss. Mr. Speaker, we can no longer remain silent in any way. I thank President Obama for the assets of the FBI and intelligence, and certainly some military assets. But to the Nigerian government, those of us who have been friends and have worked with this government, enough is enough. We need to find every resource: U.N. peacekeepers, the African Union, and any other resource that will help strategize to find those girls. There needs to be a targeted military unit from the Nigerian military that is utilizing the resources of others to help them safely rescue those girls. Enough is enough. The slaughter by this terrorist group must stop. Boko Haram must stop, and end it now. ____________________
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

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