[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[S. Res. 105 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 105

    Expressing the sense of the Senate relating to consideration of 
                 Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 1999

Mr. Dorgan (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Specter) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Expressing the sense of the Senate relating to consideration of 
                 Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal.

Whereas the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (in this 
        resolution referred to as the ``International Criminal Tribunal'') has 
        not sought indictment of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for war 
        crimes committed by Yugoslav and Serbian military and paramilitary 
        forces in Bosnia;
Whereas Serbian military and paramilitary forces have undertaken a massive 
        ethnic cleansing campaign that has displaced more than one million 
        Kosovar Albanians;
Whereas Serbian military and paramilitary forces have conducted a systematic 
        effort to strip Kosovar Albanians of their identity by confiscating 
        passports, birth certificates, employment records, driver's licenses, 
        and other documents of identification;
Whereas the International Criminal Tribunal has collected evidence of summary 
        executions, mass detentions, torture, rape, beatings, and other war 
        crimes;
Whereas in 1992, the then-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger identified 
        Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal;
Whereas the statute governing the International Criminal Tribunal requires that 
        the office of the prosecutor need only determine that a prima facie case 
        exists in order to seek indictment;
Whereas the House of Representatives and the Senate have previously passed 
        resolutions condemning Serbian police actions in Kosovo and calling for 
        Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic to be indicted for war crimes; and
Whereas the Administration has made no public attempt to urge the International 
        Criminal Tribunal to seek an indictment against Slobodan Milosevic, 
        despite the necessity of NATO air strikes to respond to his campaign of 
        genocide: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SENSE OF SENATE.

    It is the sense of the Senate that the President should--
            (1) publicly declare, as a matter of United States policy, 
        that the United States considers Slobodan Milosevic to be a war 
        criminal; and
            (2) urge the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal 
        Tribunal to seek immediately an indictment of Slobodan 
        Milosevic for war crimes and to prosecute him to the fullest 
        extent of international law.
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