"Mr. Speaker, the people of South Sudan have endured two decades of wanton violence, rape, torture and hunger systematically imposed upon them by the Bashir dictatorship in Khartoum. More than two million people were killed, four million people displaced, and countless families decimated. 
    The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 ended the war and put South Sudan on the path to nationhood... ."
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