[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 118 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 118

Calling for the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for 
 the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein 
   and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against 
humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2003

  Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. 
  Ortiz, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. 
Upton, Mr. Walden of Oregon, Mr. Goode, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Platts, Mr. 
Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Toomey, Mr. 
   Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Simmons, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Sweeney, Mr. 
Coble, Mr. Sandlin, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Smith of Michigan, Mr. 
Edwards, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Holden, Mr. 
 Ryun of Kansas, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Souder, Mr. 
Weller, Mr. Skelton, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Hall, Mr. Norwood, Mr. Sam Johnson 
   of Texas, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Camp, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Terry, and Mr. 
Crowley) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Calling for the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for 
 the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein 
   and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against 
humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law.

Whereas in 2001 and 2002, the Department of State contributed $4,000,000 to a 
        United Nations Iraq War Crimes Commission, to be used if a United 
        Nations tribunal for Iraqi war crimes is created;
Whereas the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Commission on 
        Human Rights have repeatedly condemned Iraq's human rights record;
Whereas Iraq continues to ignore United Nations resolutions and its 
        international human rights commitments;
Whereas on April 19, 2002, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passed 
        a resolution drawing attention to ``the systematic, widespread and 
        extremely grave violations of human rights and of international 
        humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in an all-
        pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based 
        discrimination and widespread terror'';
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 674 calls on all states or 
        organizations to provide information on Iraq's war-related atrocities to 
        the United Nations;
Whereas Iraq's aggressive pursuit of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, 
        and its past use of weapons of mass destruction against its own people 
        and Iraq's neighbors illustrates the danger of allowing Saddam Hussein 
        to go unchallenged;
Whereas torture is used systematically against political detainees in Iraqi 
        prisons and detention centers;
Whereas this regime gouges out the eyes of the victims, crushes all of the bones 
        in their feet, and burns a person's limbs off to force him to confess or 
        comply; and
Whereas citizens of Iraq live in constant fear of being tortured, kidnapped, or 
        killed: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That consistent with Section 301 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102-138), 
House Concurrent Resolution 137, 105th Congress (approved by the House 
of Representatives on November 13, 1997), and Senate Concurrent 
Resolution 78, 105th Congress (approved by the Senate on March 13, 
1998), the Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations 
to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of 
indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi 
officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, 
and other criminal violations of international law.
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