IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1171 
Recognizing the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and joining 
people in Rwanda and around the world in remembering and mourning 
the victims of the genocide. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2024 
Ms. OMAR (for herself, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CARSON, 
and Mr. MCGOVERN) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda 
and joining people in Rwanda and around the world 
in remembering and mourning the victims of the geno-
cide. 
Whereas, 30 years ago, for approximately 100 days from 
April to June 1994, an estimated 800,000 people, the 
majority members of the Tutsi minority, were killed in 
the Rwandan Genocide; 
Whereas the genocide targeted Tutsis, Twa, and Hutus who 
opposed the genocide; 
Whereas nearly 70 percent of the Tutsi population of Rwan-
da was killed during the genocide; 
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•HRES 1171 IH 
Whereas the Rwandan Genocide is remembered for its par-
ticular brutality, wherein the majority of those killed 
were killed with hand-held weapons like machetes and 
clubs; 
Whereas the genocide included not just mass killings, but 
mass displacement, and the extensive use of rape as a 
weapon of war; 
Whereas the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, 
hereinafter referred to as ‘‘UNAMIR’’, was dramatically 
scaled down in the early days of the genocide, with many 
countries choosing to withdraw their contingents; 
Whereas the force commander of UNAMIR, Canadian Gen-
eral Rome´o Dallaire, had accurately predicted the geno-
cide months before it began, but was denied the addi-
tional resources and authorities he needed to help prevent 
it; 
Whereas the Clinton administration showed sustained public 
reluctance to refer to the genocide as a genocide, instead 
choosing to employ euphemism such as ‘‘acts of geno-
cide’’ despite knowing that genocide was indeed occur-
ring; 
Whereas President Clinton has, on several occasions, ex-
pressed profound regret for the United States inaction 
during the genocide, saying in 2013 that he believed that 
had the United States intervened, 300,000 lives could 
have been saved; and 
Whereas the United States was the first signatory of the 
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the 
Crime of Genocide, but did not ratify it until 1988: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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•HRES 1171 IH 
(1) recognizes the 30th anniversary of the geno-
cide in Rwanda; 
(2) joins people in Rwanda and around the 
world in remembering and mourning the victims of 
the genocide; 
(3) expresses profound regret at the United 
States and international community’s failure to ade-
quately respond to the genocide as it was unfolding; 
(4) reaffirms the commitment of the United 
States to the goals of the Convention on the Preven-
tion and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; and 
(5) reaffirms the importance of atrocity preven-
tion and justice as fundamental principles of Amer-
ican foreign policy. 
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