Senate Proceeding on May 14th, 2009 :: 6:08:00 to 6:14:55
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John McCain: crashing is taken. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. mccain: mr. president? the presiding ofcer: the senator arizona. mr. mccain: mr. president, was the senator from north carolina here before i was? i would be glad to yield to senato from north carolina. thank you. the presiding officer: the

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Speech By: John McCain

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John McCain: senator from arizona. the senator from north carolina. mrs. hagan: i yield to senator from arizona. the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: mr. president, i appreciate the indulgence of the senator from north carolina. and if iltd be glad to wait. i thank you for y

6:08:41 to 6:09:01( Edit History Discussion )

John McCain: mr. president, i briefly rise to latest outrage in long-suffering country of burma. i speak of the imprisonment of nobel peace prize laureate aung san suu kyi. aung san suu kyi is the leader of democracy, the party that won

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John McCain: the country's 1990 elections decisively, electio quickly nullified by the burmese military. she's been imprisoned by the thuggish military junta that runs that country. suu kyi has spent the majority of the past two decades under house arrest. now the government has moved

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John McCain: this remarkable woman to a prison compound and charged her with violating the terms of her house arrest. her house arrest was illegal to start with. she's scheduled to stand trial in four days and faces a tential sentence of five years in jail. o other n.l.d. members face similar charges.

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John McCain: while reports remain somewhat owopaque, these charges appear to stem from the uninvited visit of a united states individual who entered ms. suu kyi's home compound after swimming across a nearby lake. he compound for two days despite requests to leave. based on this occurrence, the

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John McCain: regime appears now to have alleged that ms. suu kyi has broken the law by not requesting permission in advance to have a visitor. as a penalty then for an uninvited person showing up on her doorstep while she remained imprisoned inside, the burmese proposes to sentence

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John McCain: for up to five years in jail. all of this represents, of course, just the latest pretext dreamed up by the burmese junta in order to prevent the legitimate leader ofhe country from interfering in its plainings for come to nanls. the generals who run the country are "elections" -- to be held next

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John McCain: year and which they believe legitimatize their illegitimate rule. they seek ways to ensure that ms. suu kyi and other n.l.d. members are not free to participate in these elections since it is the n.l.d. and not the military junta that has the support of the burmese people. as political prisoners,

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John McCain: including aung san suu kyi, fill burmese jails, the international community should see this process for the sham it represents. i once hadhe great honor of meeting aung san suu kyi. she is a woman of astonishing courage and incredible resolve. her determination in the face of tyranny inspires me and every individual who holds democracy

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John McCain: dear. her resilience in the face of untold suffering her courage at the hands of a cruel junta, and her composure despite years of oppression inspire the world. because she stands for freedom, this heroic woman has endured attacks, arrests, captivity, and

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John McCain: untold sufferings at the hand of the regime. burma's rulers fear aung san suu kyi because of what she represents: peace, freedom, and justice for all burmese people. the thugs who run burma have tried to stifle her voice but they will never extinguish her moral courage.

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John McCain: the world must now respond to the hussein t.s.a. latest outre in a way that demonstrates the inevitability of those values she so clearly demonstrates. the work of aung san suu kyi and the members of nationaleague for democracy mt be the world's work. we must continue to press the junta until it' willing to

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John McCain: negotiate an irreversible transition to democratic rule. the burmese people deserve no less. this means renewing the sanctions that will expire this year, and it means vigorous enforcement of our treasury department, of the -- by our treasury department of the targeted financial sanctions in place against regime leaders.

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John McCain: and it means being perfectly of freedom for the burmese people and against those who abridge it. the message of solidarity with the burmese people should come from all quarters and that includes their closest neighbors, the asean countries. the united states, european countries and others have

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John McCain: condemned ms. suu kyi's arrest and called for immediate release. mr. president, i ask to be included in the record at this time council of the european union, the national council for federation of international rights, the international federation of -- and the

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John McCain: international federation of human rights. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mccain: anyway, mr. president, the countries of southeast asia should be at the forefront of this call. asean now has a human rights charter in which member countries have protect and protect human rights. now is the time to live up to

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John McCain: that commitment. asean could start by dispatching envoys to ran goon in order to demand the immediate, unconditional release of aung san this courageous leader and all those burmese who have followed her lead in pressing for their own inalienable rights should know, all free people stand with you and support you.

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John McCain: the world i your brave actions but also those of the military whose cruelty and incompetence know no bounds. bur massachusetts future will be one of peace and freedom, not one of violence and oppression. we as americans stand on the side of freedom, not fear. peace, not violence. and of the millions in burma who

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John McCain: aspire to a better life, not those who would keep them isolated and oppressed. the united states has a critical