Speech #1100057017

Mr. President. I am going to take this opportunity. while we are waiting for the next proceeding that will come somewhere around 7:30 on this immigration bill. to report to the Senate. having just returned from the recess from Africa. on the very serious situation in two respects that this Senator from Florida has tried to get his arms around. The first is. of course. the crisis in Darfur. Since the Government of Sudan would not give this Senator a visa to go into Sudan to go into Darfur. there is another way to do it. and that is to go to the backdoor by going into the neighboring country of Chad which I did. And the Sudanese Government would not even give us overflight rights leaving from Addis Ababa going to Ndjamena. the capital of Chad. and having to fly completely around the country of Sudan to get to the capital of Chad which is located to the west of the Sudan. then from the capital city of Sudan. then to take a series of flights to get close to the eastern border where all of the Sudanese refugees are. the Sudanese refugees who have fled the slaughter allowed by the Sudanese Government. the slaughter of innocent people often perpetrated by a terrorist group called the jingaweit that have been instruments aided and abetted by the Sudanese Government. even to the point of the Sudanese Government sending in Sudanese aircraft. government aircraft that they sometimes paint white so as to mask as if it is a humanitarian airplane such as the United Nations. aircraft that bombed them. helicopters that are painted the same way that come in and strafe them. This has only been going on for 4 years. Look what the world community has done to be so slow in response to this humanitarian crisis. this genocide. this slaughter. 1 visited one of those refugee camps. This particular one had about 16.000 people. Indeed. part of their life is better off because they do not have violence unless. by the way. the women go outside to collect firewood. which. interestingly. is the womans job.