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 CIS NO: 89-H241-50
 TITLE: Human Rights and Multilateral Aid to China and Somalia.
 SOURCE: Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+105 p.
 DATE: June 20, 1989
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 101-1             SUDOC: Y4.B22/1:101-37
 ITEM NO: 1013-A; 1013-B
 LC CARD NO: 89-603043               MC ENTRY NO: 90-3256

 Committee Serial No. 101-37. Hearing before the Subcom on International
 Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy to examine reported human
 rights violations in China and Somalia, and to consider recommendations for
 U.S. opposition to World Bank and Asian Development Bank loans to China and
 Somalia.
   Supplementary material (p. 37-105) includes witnesses' written
 statements, press release and:
 -- H. Res. 173, to express the sense of the House that the U.S. Executive
     Directors of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank should oppose
     any loans or other financial or technical assistance to China, draft
     text (p. 102-105).
 CONTENT NOTATION: China and Somalia human rights conditions
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL
     DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE, TRADE AND MONETARY POLICY. HOUSE; HUMAN RIGHTS;
     CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (Human rights conditions in China); SOMALIA
     (Human rights conditions in Somalia); WORLD BANK; ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
     BANK; FOREIGN.LOANS; SENSE OF CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS (China loans and
     technical assistance from World Bank and Asian Dev Bank, House
     opposition)
 BILLS: 101 H.Res.173
 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L.101-240

 89-H241-50 TESTIMONY NO: 1         June 20, 1989 p. 6-36, 46-100
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     BURKHALTER, HOLLY J. (D.C. Representative, Human Rights Watch
        Committee)
     PEI, MINXIN (Chinese graduate student, Harvard University)
     FEINERMAN, JAMES (Associate Professor, Law Center, Georgetown
        University; respresenting China Scholars' Coordinating Committee)
     PRENDERGAST, JOHN (representing Center of Concern and Coalition for
        Peace in the Horn of Africa)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Concerns about reported human rights violations
     in China and Somalia; details of alleged Chinese Government arrests and
     other repression of participants in the Apr.-June 1989 pro-democracy
     demonstrations in China; specifics of alleged human rights violations by
     the military in Somalia following the May 1988 outbreak of civil war.
       Arguments against World Bank or Asian Development Bank loans to China
     or Somalia, with suggestions for U.S. Government opposition; background
     and analysis of Chinese Government policies and actions.
 INSERTIONS: 
     a. Human Rights Watch Committee, "New Information on Arrests in China"
        June 19, 1989 (p. 54-63).
     b. Africa Watch Committee, "Somalia: Women in Prison, Political
        Detentions, Unfair Trials, and Harsh Prison Conditions" June 13,
        1989 (p. 75-83).
     c. Deng, Xiaoping, Chinese Government policies following the Apr.-June
        1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, speech, June 1989 (p. 89-90).
     d. "Massacre in China: A Report from the Provinces, Chengdu, Sichuan
        Prov." June 10, 1989 (p. 91-97).
 CONTENT NOTATION: China and Somalia human rights conditions
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): PUBLIC.DEMONSTRATIONS (China
     1989 pro-democracy demonstrations); CIVIL WAR; CIVIL-MILITARY
     RELATIONS; ARREST; POLITICAL PRISONERS ("Somalia: Women in Prison:
     Political Detentions, Unfair Trials, and Harsh Prison Conditions");
     WOMEN ("Somalia: Women in Prison: Political Detentions, Unfair Trials,
     and Harsh Prison Conditions"); TRIALS ("Somalia: Women in Prison:
     Political Detentions, Unfair Trials, and Harsh Prison Conditions");
     DENG, XIAOPING (China 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, Chinese Govt
     policies, speech); CHENGDU, CHINA ("Massacre in China: A Report from
     the Provinces, Chengdu, Sichuan Prov."); SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA
     ("Massacre in China: A Report from the Provinces, Chengdu, Sichuan
     Prov."); HOMICIDE ("Massacre in China: A Report from the Provinces,
     Chengdu, Sichuan Prov."); HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH COMMITTEE; CHINA
     SCHOLARS' COORDINATING COMMITTEE; CENTER OF CONCERN; COALITION FOR
     PEACE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA