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 102 STAT. 4920

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—OCT. 7, 1988

alcohol-related automobile crsishes and approximately 43,000 of these injuries are serious; Whereas drunk driving is the Nation's leading cause of brain and spinal cord injury; Whereas an estimated 2 out of every 5 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related automobile crash at some point in their lives; and Whereas drunk driving costs the Nation approximately $24,000,000,000 each year: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the Surgeon General should declare that drunk driving is a national crisis. Agreed to October 7, 1988.

Oct. 7, 1988 [H. Con. Res. 371]

BURUNDI ATROCITIES—U.S. RESPONSE Whereas in Burundi a unique system of ethnic domination has subordinated the 85 percent of Burundi's population of Hutu ethnicity to the will of a Tutsi minority comprising less than 15 percent of the total population; Whereas since coming to power one year ago, Major Pierre Buyoya has begun efforts to alleviate this domination, combat corruption, release political prisoners, normalize church-state relations, increase Hutu representation at the cabinet level, introduce macroeconomic reforms, and make known his intention to introduce other reforms benefitting the Hutu majority; Whereas these steps toward national reconciliation have been taken in order to prevent a repetition of the tragic violence in 1972, which resulted in a tremendous loss of life; Whereas in mid-August an outbreak of ethnic conflict in northern Burundi at Ntega reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least several hundred people, and possibly many more, including a significant number of innocent Tutsi; Whereas the Government of Burundi reportedly responded to the killings at Ntega by dispatching 2 army battalions, comprised almost exclusively of Tutsi soldiers and equipped with machine guns, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers, to restore order in the tense northern localities of Ntega and Marangara, where they reportedly engaged in the killing of between 5,000 and 20,000 Hutu, many of them innocent civilians; Whereas these alleged actions by the Burundi army also resulted in the internal displacement of thousands of Hutu and the flight to neighboring Rwanda of 55,000 to 60,000 Hutu, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Whereas the Government of Burundi has rejected a request by the European Community to allow an international inquiry team to investigate this tragic series of events and the many unexplained circumstances surrounding it; Whereas in 1972 a Hutu revolt, in which many innocent Tutsi were killed, was followed by massive, systematic counter-violence by the Burundi Governmwit and army which left an estimated 100,000 Hutu dead and which quickly became a genocidal-type

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