[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to war
crimes.
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 ‘‘Expanded War Crimes
Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF WAR CRIMES.
Section 2441 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘grave breach
of the Geneva Conventions’’ and inserting ‘‘war
crime’’;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘breach’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘war crime’’;
(3) so that subsection (c) reads as follows:
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘war crime’ means any conduct—
‘‘(A) defined as a grave breach in any of
the international conventions signed at Geneva
12 August 1949, or any protocol to such con-
vention to which the United States is a party;
‘‘(B) prohibited by Articles 23, 25, 17, or
28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV,
Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on
Land, signed 18 October 1907;
‘‘(C) which constitutes a violation of com-
mon Article 3 of the international conventions
signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any pro-
tocol to such convention to which the United
States is a party and which deals with non-
international armed conflict; or
‘‘(D) of a person who, in relation to an
armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of
the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on
the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other De-
vices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996
(Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when
the United States is a party to such Protocol,
willfully kills or causes serious injury to civil-
ians.’’.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expanded War Crimes
Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF WAR CRIMES.
Section 2441 of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘grave breach
of the Geneva Conventions’’ and inserting ‘‘war
crime’’;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘breach’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘war crime’’; and
(3) so that subsection (c) reads as follows:
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section the term
‘war crime’ means any conduct—
‘‘(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the
international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August
1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the
United States is a party;
‘‘(2) prohibited by Articles 23, 25, 27, or 28 of
the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting
the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18
October 1907;
‘‘(3) which constitutes a violation of common Ar-
ticle 3 of the international conventions signed at Ge-
neva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such conven-
tion to which the United States is a party and which
deals with non-international armed conflict; or
‘‘(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed
conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines,
Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Gene-
va on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May
1996), when the United States is a party to such Pro-
tocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to
civilians.’’.
Union Calendar No. 125
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1348
[Report No. 105–204]
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to
war crimes.
JULY 25, 1997
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed