We heard from Hasan Nuhanovic. a Muslim who unsuccessfully begged. begged the United Nations peacekeepers. UNPROFOR. not to turn his mother. father and brother over to the murderous Bosnian Serb militia. We heard from a Russian Jewish member of parliament who observed. and I quote. that "antiSemitism was the first industry to be privatized in the postSoviet Russia." We heard from the Karen refugees whose villages in Thailand were burned by the Burmese military dictatorship. which openly used their Christian religion as an excuse to conduct crossborder raids against them. and from Christians and Buddhists subjected to imprisonment and torture by the communist governments of China and Vietnam. Wherever we hear from victims themselves. and whenever we hear from those victims. they make it very clear that the United States should press hard for an end to religious persecution abroad. This is important because the Clinton administration and some business people who had opposed the Freedom From Religious Persecution Act have suggested that by publicly demanding an end to the mistreatment of these people. we are more likely to hurt them than help them.
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