[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 453 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 453

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
                        the situation in Rwanda.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 1994

Mr. Hastings submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
                        the situation in Rwanda.

Whereas an ethnic cleansing of the minority Tutsi tribe is being carried out by 
        the majority Hutu tribe in Rwanda;
Whereas as many as 500,000 innocent people may have been slaughtered;
Whereas there has been little to no progress in brokering a cease-fire after 
        more than two months of slaughter;
Whereas international observers have stated that a cease-fire does not seem to 
        be forthcoming;
Whereas more than 500,000 children have been orphaned;
Whereas Catholic clergy have been executed;
Whereas millions of people face starvation;
Whereas the United Nations has been unable to resolve the conflict in Rwanda;
Whereas the United States on February 25, 1989, ratified and entered into the 
        Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;
Whereas the convention stipulates that genocide, whether committed during peace 
        or war, is an international crime which must be prevented and punished; 
        and
Whereas the Convention defines genocide as the intentional destruction of any 
        national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part, by 
        killing its members, causing them serious physical or mental harm, 
        imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical 
        destruction: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) strongly condemns the atrocities being carried out in 
        Rwanda; and
            (2) calls such atrocities genocide.

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