States that Congress: (1) declares that the atrocities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide; (2) reminds the President and the international community of their international legal obligations, as affirmed in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; (3) commends the President's leadership in seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Darfur and in addressing the humanitarian crisis caused by that conflict, including the provision of assistance in Darfur and Eastern Chad; (4) urges the President to seek a United Nations Security Council resolution that directs the member states of the United Nations to impose sanctions against those responsible for the atrocities committed in Darfur, authorizes a multinational force to guarantee humanitarian access and security for foreign aid workers and internally displaced persons, urges a halt to violence committed by militias and by the armed forces of Sudan, creates a Commission of Inquiry, and calls for the establishment of a formal peace process between Darfurians and the Government of Sudan; (5) calls on the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to establish a Darfur Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Fund; and (6) urges the President to provide political and financial support to the African Union to promote its effective intervention in Darfur.
[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 124 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. CON. RES. 124
Declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 13, 2004
Mr. Brownback (for himself, Mr. Corzine, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Lieberman, Mr.
DeWine, and Mr. Feingold) submitted the following concurrent
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
_______________________________________________________________________
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
Whereas Article 1 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states that ``the contracting
parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in
time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to
prevent and to punish'';
Whereas Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide declares that ``in the present Convention, genocide
means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the
group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group; and (e) forcibly transferring children
of the group to another group'';
Whereas Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide affirms that the ``following acts shall be punishable:
(a) genocide; (b) conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) direct and public
incitement to commit genocide; (d) attempt to committed genocide; and
(e) complicity in genocide'';
Whereas in Darfur, Sudan, an estimated 30,000 innocent civilians have been
brutally murdered, more than 130,000 people have been forced from their
homes and have fled to neighboring Chad, and more than 1,000,000 people
have been internally displaced;
Whereas Andrew Natsios, the Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development, has predicted that 300,000 civilians in
Darfur will die within the year under ``optimal conditions'' in which
humanitarian assistance is provided, and that as many as 1,000,000
civilians in Darfur are at risk; and
Whereas in March 2004 the United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator
stated: ``[T]he war in Darfur started off in a small way last year but
it has progressively gotten worse. A predominant feature of this is that
the brunt is being borne by civilians. This includes vulnerable women
and children . . . The violence in Darfur appears to be particularly
directed at a specific group based on their ethnic identity and appears
to be systemized.'': Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),
That Congress--
(1) declares that the atrocities unfolding in Darfur,
Sudan, are genocide;
(2) reminds the President and the international community
of their international legal obligations, as affirmed in the
1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide;
(3) urges the President to call the atrocities being
committed in Darfur, Sudan by their rightful name:
``genocide'';
(4) commends the leadership of the President in seeking a
peaceful resolution to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan and in
addressing the humanitarian crisis caused by that conflict,
including the provision of assistance to meet immediate
humanitarian needs in Darfur, Sudan and Eastern Chad;
(5) urges the President to seek a United Nations Security
Council resolution under Chapter VII of the United Nations
Charter that directs the Member States of the United Nations to
impose targeted sanctions against those responsible for the
atrocities committed in Darfur, Sudan, authorizes a
multinational force to guarantee humanitarian access and
security for foreign aid workers and internally displaced
persons, urges a halt to violence committed by armed militias
and by the armed forces of Sudan and the safe, secure, and the
sustainable return of internally displaced persons and refugees
to their homes, creates a Commission of Inquiry to investigate
the unfolding genocide, recommends measures to create
accountability in Darfur, Sudan, and calls for the
establishment of a formal peace process for permanent
resolution of grievances between Darfurians and the Government
of Sudan;
(6) calls on the Administrator of the United States Agency
for International Development to establish a Darfur
Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Fund to fund
assistance for those driven off their land so that they may
return and begin to rebuild their communities; and
(7) urges the President to provide political and financial
support to the African Union to promote its effective
intervention in Darfur, Sudan to achieve security, humanitarian
assistance, and accountability.
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Introduced in Senate
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8050-8051)
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