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H. RES. 118 - INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL
Introduced into the House on February 27, 2003 by Mr. Weldon (D-PA)
Cosponsors
This resolution is calling for the establishment of an international criminal
tribunal by the United Nations. It would indict, prosecute and imprison Saddam
Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against
humanity, genocide and other criminal violations of international law.
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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