[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14957]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  TIME TO ESTABLISH A WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL REGARDING SADDAM HUSSEIN'S 
                                 CRIMES

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, last week Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi units 
to fire upon U.S. surveillance aircraft enforcing the United Nations 
no-fly zone protecting the Kurdish people of Iraq. It is clear from 
this record that Saddam Hussein is becoming an increasing security 
threat to the international system.
  Based on the achievements of the U.N. war crimes tribunal with the 
arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, we have a clear record of unilateral and 
multilateral action to support the rule of law and international human 
rights.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to look for a U.N. war crimes tribunal on 
Iraq, to look at Iraq's violation of the peace with regard to its 
invasion of Iran, Saddam Hussein's ordering the execution of 5,000 
civilians in Halabja, and its invasion of Kuwait.
  Now is the time, as we review sanctions and our policy toward Iraq, 
to start a multilateral effort to establish a U.N. war crimes tribunal.

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