None of us are asking to provoke violence. but violence already exists in the Sudan. For those of us who have gone. some of us who went through Chad because the Sudanese Government refused to give a number of Members of Congress the diplomatic papers necessary. many just simply went. When I went to Chad and visited with the refugees there in the camps. Chad already as a neighboring country is overwhelmed and being. if you will. undermined by the hundreds of thousands of refugees and the lack of support and resources. I was glad to support an amendment to the foreign operations appropriations to ensure that some of those heavy burdens of Chad would be provided for. But you have not and cannot understand the devastation of violence in Sudan if you have not sat down on the ground with the women in a circle as I have in those refugee camps listening to women who would not look at me face to face. who hid their eyes and their faces. who didnt want to talk about the massive rapes over and over again by those who would intimidate. rape. murder their men and them and their children. Women who had to go out to get the firewood because the man could not. The men obviously were not raped. they were brutalized and murdered. and so the women sacrificed their bodies by going out to be raped. because if the men went out they would be murdered.
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