U. S. Policies Toward Liberia, Togo and Zaire
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Excerpt from U. S. Policies Toward Liberia, Togo and Zaire: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 9, 1993 Wednesday, June 9, 1993 U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:20 p.m. in room SD - 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Paul Simon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Simon, Pell, Dodd, Kerry, Kassebaum, and Jeffords. Senator Simon. The subcommittee hearing will come to order. First of all, my apologies to my colleagues. I got waylaid over on the Senate floor after the vote. Our hearing today is about U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia, Togo, and Zaire. In Liberia we clearly have special responsibilities. No African country has greater historic ties to this country than does Liberia, and I think we have special responsibilities also because we did not speak up forcefully as we should have when Samuel Doe took over as a dictator there. One million people are now internally displaced. You have about 600,000 who are seeking shelter in neighboring countries, and you have had tragedies there. We will hear today from a Catholic nun about one of those tragedies, and the item that was in the newspaper just the other day about 300 Liberians being massacred, mostly women and children, 700 seriously wounded. The question is, how do we respond on that Liberian situation. I would like to read the last two paragraphs from an editorial in the Washington Post. I will insert the full editorial in the record. The last two paragraphs say: For much of the past 3 years, we in this country have watched the slide of Liberia as if it were an event that had no bearing on us as a Nation or on our responsibilities as a global power. During the Reagan and Bush years a handful of State Department Africa Bureau officials promoted the international fiction that the United States really cared about what went on in Liberia. The level of White House interest spoke otherwise. The Clinton White House should reverse that policy. America´s link to Liberia by that country´s origins was made possible by us, by our commitment to democracy and human rights which should be manifest in Liberia, if anywhere in Africa, and by our obligation to help the survivors of this self-destruction become self-sustaining. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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