IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 467 
Declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2004 
Mr. PAYNE (for himself, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. WYNN, Ms. 
LEE, Ms. MAJETTE, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. WA-
TERS, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. 
MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. RUSH, Mr. TOWNS, 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. OWENS, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. THOMP-
SON of Mississippi, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. WATT, 
Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. WATSON, 
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. 
CONYERS, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. FORD, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. 
TANCREDO, and Mr. BISHOP of Georgia) submitted the following concur-
rent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Re-
lations 
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 geno-
cide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of 
war, is a crime under international law which they under-
take to prevent and to punish’’; 
Whereas Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and 
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide declares that ‘‘in
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the present Convention, genocide means any of the fol-
lowing 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 transfer-
ring 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) con-
spiracy to commit genocide; (c) direct and public incite-
ment to commit genocide; (d) attempt to committed geno-
cide; and (e) complicit in genocide’’; 
Whereas in Darfur, Sudan, an estimated 30,000 innocent ci-
vilians 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; and 
Whereas in March 2004 the United Nations Resident Hu-
manitarian Coordinator stated: ‘‘[T]he war in Darfur 
started off in a small way last year but it has progres-
sively gotten worse. A predominant feature of this is that 
the brunt is being borne by civilians. This includes vul-
nerable 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
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) declares that the atrocities unfolding in 
Darfur, Sudan, are genocide; 
(2) reminds the international community, in-
cluding the United States Government, 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 Bush Administration to call the 
atrocities being committed in Darfur, Sudan by its 
rightful name: ‘‘genocide’’; 
(4) calls on the Bush Administration to lead an 
international effort to prevent genocide in Darfur, 
Sudan; 
(5) urges the Bush Administration to seriously 
consider multilateral or even unilateral intervention 
to prevent genocide should the United Nations Secu-
rity Council fail to act; 
(6) demands that the Bush Administration im-
pose targeted sanctions, including visa bans and the 
freezing of assets of the National Congress and af-
filiated business and individuals directly responsible 
for the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan; and
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(7) calls on USAID to establish a Darfur Re-
settlement, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Fund 
so that those driven off their land may return and 
begin to rebuild their communities. 
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