| 00:00:00 | SITUATION IN SEVERAL SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES IS VERY GRIM. |
| 00:00:04 | FAMINE IS LOOMING AND I THINK UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES MUST ACT. |
| 00:00:09 | BUT IN CONSIDERING THE COUNTRIES IMPACTED, ZIMBABWE SHOULD BE PLACED IN A CATEGORY ALONE. |
| 00:00:18 | THIS COMMITTEE HAS SPENT CONSIDERABLE TIME ATTEMPTING TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW IN WHAT SHOULD BE A PROSPEROUS ZIMBABWE. |
| 00:00:28 | I WON'T GO INTO THE DETAILS OF THE GROWING REPRESSION THAT THE ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT IS BRINGING TO BEAR AGAINST BRAVE ZIMBABWE PEOPLE DARING TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE. |
| 00:00:41 | I WON'T GO INTO WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK. |
| 00:00:45 | BUT LET ME JUST SAY THAT CHAIRMAN HYDE AND RANKING MEMBER LANTOS EXPLAINED WELL THE SITUATION THERE. |
| 00:00:56 | AND I'LL SAY THAT THE REGIME, HAVING STOLEN AN ELECTION IN MARCH, IS SPARING NO MEANS TO MAINTAIN ITS POWER AND ITS PURSE. |
| 00:01:06 | NOW, MY FEAR IS THAT IN A FEW MONTHS WE'LL BE SEEING TELEVISION FOOTAGE OF STARVING ZIMBABWE PEOPLE AS WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST IN AFRICA, PARTICULARLY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA, AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM IN ZIMBABWE. |
| 00:01:24 | WE NEED TO BE CLEAR, THIS ISN'T PRIMARILY A PROBLEM OF DROUGHT AS THE REGIME WOULD HAVE THE WORLD BELIEVE. |
| 00:01:33 | NOT UNLIKE IN NORTH KOREA WE'RE CONFRONTING IN ZIMBABWE A REGIME THAT IS WILLINGLY STARVING ITS POLITICAL OPPOSITION. |
| 00:01:43 | IT IS DIFFICULT FOR GOOD-HEARTED AMERICANS TO COMPREHEND THAT A GOVERNMENT WOULD USE FOOD AS A LETHAL WEAPON. |
| 00:01:51 | IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT AND HOPEFULLY OTHERS COMPREHEND THIS TRAGIC REALITY IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES. |
| 00:01:58 | OUR FOOD RELIEF EFFORTS ARE FACING A DETERMINED ENEMY IN THE REGIME WHICH OMINOUSLY STILL SHELTERS THE FORMER ETHIOPIAN DICTATOR WHO, FRANKLY, DEVELOPED THIS INTO A FINE ART IN TERMS OF USING STARVATION AS A POLITICAL WEAPON. |
| 00:02:18 | HE IS A HOUSEGUEST THERE. |
| 00:02:20 | HE ENGINEERED THE ETHIOPIAN FAMINES OF THE 1980'S. |
| 00:02:24 | IF WE'RE TO BE SUCCESSFUL, WE NEED TO BE AS DETERMINED AS THE MACHIAVELLIAN REGIME OFFICIALS WHO SEEK TO MANIPULATE OUR GOOD WILL TO WHAT ONLY CAN BE DESCRIBED AS EVIL ENDS. |
| 00:02:38 | FEEDING THEIR SUPPORTERS, STARVING THEIR ENEMIES. |
| 00:02:42 | OTHERWISE, SIM BAB WANTS WILL DIE IN LARGE NUMBERS AND WE WILL HAVE UNWITTINGLY BOLSTERED THIS REGIME. |
| 00:02:52 | I APPRECIATE THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR, ANDREW NATSIOS, HAS HAD TOUGH WORDS FOR THE REGIME AND MADE THE POINT THAT THIS IS HIS FAMINE. |
| 00:03:01 | AND I KNOW THE THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR HAS HAD CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA HAND AS FACED SIMILAR PERVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUDAN. |
| 00:03:10 | TODAY I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING THE ADMINISTRATION'S DISASTER RELIEF PLAN FOR ZIMBABWE. |
| 00:03:15 | AGAIN, MR. |
| 00:03:16 | CHAIRMAN, I THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING. |
| 00:03:19 | >> MR. |
| 00:03:21 | PAYNE. THE RANKING DEMOCRAT ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE. |
| 00:03:23 | >> THANK YOU, MR. |
| 00:03:24 | CHAIRMAN. I'LL BE BRIEF. |
| 00:03:25 | LET ME COMMEND YOU FOR HOLDING THIS VERY IMPORTANT MEETING AT THIS CRITICAL TIME AS IT'S BEEN INDICATED VERY CLEARLY THAT SOUTHERN AFRICA IS CERTAINLY FACING A FOOD SECURITY CRISIS REQUIRES CERTAINLY IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. |
| 00:03:41 | EACH NEW ASSESSMENT SHOWS THAT FAMINE IS WORSENING. |
| 00:03:46 | WITH SOME EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE, FIVE MILLION OF WHOM ARE CHILDREN, NEEDING EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE. |
| 00:03:52 | BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, THE FIGURE WILL RISE TO |
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