SYRIAN ATROCITIES; Congressional Record Vol. 163, No. 86

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SYRIAN ATROCITIES

(Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia asked and was given permission to

address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, recent State Department

revelations show that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continues

inflicting atrocities on his own people. The discovery of a crematorium

at Saydnaya military prison will only make it more difficult to account

for the thousands detained and executed by Assad.

According to numerous nongovernmental organizations, the Assad regime

has abducted and detained between 65,000 and 117,000 people between

2011 and 2015. Credible reports have the regime executing up to 50

people daily. Assad uses the excuse of fighting terrorism to justify

this gross campaign of inhumanity against innocent civilians. We know

he has used mass graves and crematoriums to dispose of the corpses of

the murdered. The savagery must stop.

I am proud to represent many Syrian Americans in Charleston, West

Virginia. I urge my colleagues to join me in publicly condemning the

atrocities committed by the Syrian regime of President Assad. Syrians

deserve to be safe and free.

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