I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 895 
To provide for the continuation of restrictions against the Republic of Sudan 
unless the President certifies to Congress that Sudan is no longer en-
gaged in training, harboring, supplying, financing, or supporting in any 
way the Lord’s Resistance Army. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 3, 2011 
Mr. ROYCE (for himself and Mr. MCGOVERN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide for the continuation of restrictions against the 
Republic of Sudan unless the President certifies to Con-
gress that Sudan is no longer engaged in training, har-
boring, supplying, financing, or supporting in any way 
the Lord’s Resistance Army. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sudan Cessation of 
Support for the Lord’s Resistance Army Certification Act 
of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On August 12, 1993, Sudan was designated 
by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 6(j) of 
the Export Administration Act of 1979, section 
620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 
40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and other provi-
sions of law, as a country that has repeatedly pro-
vided support for acts of international terrorism, 
more commonly known as a ‘‘state sponsor of ter-
rorism’’. 
(2) For over two decades, the Lord’s Resistance 
Army (LRA) has terrorized northern Uganda and 
central Africa, killing civilians and using brutal tac-
tics such as mutilating, abducting, and forcing indi-
viduals into sexual servitude and forcing as many as 
65,000 children to fight as part of the rebel force. 
(3) In recognition of those atrocities, the Sec-
retary of State has since 2001 included the Lord’s 
Resistance Army on the ‘‘Terrorist Exclusion List’’ 
pursuant to section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)). 
(4) Similarly, the leader of the LRA, Joseph 
Kony, has been designated a ‘‘specially designated 
global terrorist’’, pursuant to Executive Order 
13224, and found by the Secretary of State to pose 
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‘‘a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism 
that threaten the security of United States nationals 
or the national security, foreign policy, or economy 
of the United States’’. 
(5) The Government of Sudan has a history of 
supporting the LRA as a proxy force against the 
Ugandan Government, and in an effort to destabilize 
Southern Sudan, providing weapons, supplies, intel-
ligence, and safe haven to members of the group, 
making it the only documented state-supporter of 
the LRA. 
(6) According to the International Crisis Group, 
the Sudanese Armed Forces provided material sup-
port to the LRA as late as 2005. 
(7) In its November 2010 report, the United 
Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Repub-
lic of the Congo asserted that high-level LRA mem-
bers met with Sudanese Armed Forces commanders 
in the Darfur region of Sudan and sought ‘‘to re-es-
tablish relations with the Sudanese authorities and 
to request assistance, including safe passage and po-
litical asylum for Joseph Kony’’. 
(8) The finding of paragraph (7) has been 
echoed by former LRA commanders and abductees. 
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