I wish to turn my attention. and the attention of this body. to the plight of another group of human beings who suffer under relentless Soviet repression. I am speaking of the campaign of persecution. both official and !nformal: against Soviet Jews and the community of dissidents in the Soviet Union. Their only crime is that they continue to speak out for such basic causes as selfdetermination. freedom of religion. and the right of emigration. These. of course. are not the only reasons for which the KGB and other organs of "state security" have seen fit to intimidate. humiliate. and persecute these defenseless segments of the population. But they are such fundamental human rights as to highlight the degree of repression which exists within the Soviet Union.
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