Senate Concurrent Resolution 94. relating to the rights of Jews in Syria. addresses such an instance. I am pleased to join in cosponsoring this resolution. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 expresses the sense of the Congress that President Assad of Syria should immediately permit all members of the Syrian Jewish Community to emigrate from Syria. This resolution expresses the outrage all of us feel at the historic mistreatment. systematic restrictions on travel. discrimination in employment. and patterns of violence visited on the Jews of Syria. Most recent in the appalling and brutal. but yet unprosecuted. murder of a Jewish mother. Lillian Adabi. and her two young children in Aleppo on December 28. 1983. With regard to human rights. there are few international norms not already broken by the authoritarian government in Syria which is committed to brutal repression of dissent. subversion of its neighbors and clear support for terrorists of every kind. The discrimination and harassment facing the more than 4.000 Jews in Syria. including restrictions on travel abroad and an official ban on emigration. are part of what can only be described as a consistent pattern of gross violations of basic human rights. We have recognized this horrible record in Syria. Mr.
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