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and glorified war criminals in an effort to rewrite the his-
tory of their offenses and instituted school curricula that 
teach students false narratives of Srebrenica or omit it; 
Whereas some nongovernmental organizations in Serbia dedi-
cated to human rights and justice have been instrumental 
in helping to document atrocities which occurred during 
the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as their 
perpetrators, and have worked tirelessly to encourage 
Serbian officials and the public to acknowledge the 
crimes committed by Serb forces during that conflict and 
to support the pursuit of justice regarding those crimes; 
Whereas the community of nations, including the United 
States, that intervened militarily to prevent further ag-
gression and ethnic cleansing as well as to advance nego-
tiation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace 
in Bosnia and Herzegovina (initialed in Dayton, Ohio, on 
November 21, 1995, and signed in Paris on December 
14, 1995) has continued to provide personnel and re-
sources to help ensure fullest implementation of the 
agreement, as well as to bring reconciliation among all of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s citizens; 
Whereas the Office of the High Representative of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina continues to operate through the multi-
nation Peace Implementation Council, but with dimin-
ished financial and personnel resources and, in its twice- 
yearly reports to the UNSC, repeated abstentions from 
exercise of its full executive powers; and 
Whereas the United States established the Atrocities Preven-
tion Board, an interagency committee that studied the 
lessons of Srebrenica and issued informed guidance on 
how to prevent similar incidents from recurring in the fu-
ture, and, in the Congress, passed the Elie Wiesel Geno-
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cide and Atrocities Prevention Act, under which the 
United States Government reports to Congress its 
progress in such preventative measures: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the genocide perpetrated by Serb 
forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 
1995; 
(2) condemns statements, actions, and policies 
that deny or question that the massacre at 
Srebrenica constituted a genocide and that dishonor 
the victims or disrespect their families, and recog-
nizes that entire ethnic groups or communities are 
not responsible for the crimes committed by some 
members of their forces; 
(3) urges the Peace Implementation Council to 
restore full funding to the Office of the High Rep-
resentative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and encour-
ages the High Representative to exercise his full ex-
ecutive powers to ensure that the General Frame-
work Agreement for Peace is implemented fully and 
to call for an end to historical revisionism, particu-
larly as it relates to the genocide at Srebrenica; 
(4) encourages the United States to maintain 
and reaffirm its policy of supporting the sovereignty, 
legal continuity, unity, and territorial integrity of 
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Bosnia and Herzegovina within its internationally 
recognized borders; 
(5) reaffirms its strong support for the people 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their aspirations for 
greater democracy, economic prosperity, and success 
in Euro-Atlantic and European Integration; 
(6) 
urges 
the 
people 
of 
Bosnia 
and 
Herzegovina, their elected representatives, and the 
international community to place renewed emphasis 
on respect for human rights and fundamental free-
doms held by the individual, which should not be 
compromised by any collective protections and privi-
leges to a group, ethnically based or otherwise; 
(7) encourages the United States to promote 
peace and stability in southeastern Europe as a 
whole, and the right of all people living in the re-
gion, regardless of national, racial, ethnic, or reli-
gious background, to return to their homes and 
enjoy the benefits of democratic institutions, the rule 
of law, and economic opportunity, as well as to know 
the fate of missing relatives and friends; 
(8) recognizes the assistance of the Inter-
national Commission for Missing Persons to Bosnia 
and Herzegovina and its relevant institutions in ac-
counting for nearly 90 percent of those reported 
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missing after the Srebrenica massacre and approxi-
mately 75 percent of those reported missing during 
the whole of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 
(9) welcomes the completion of the work of the 
International Criminal Tribunal for the former 
Yugoslavia, including its convictions and sentencing 
of Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, and 88 other 
persons convicted of offenses including war crimes, 
crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches 
of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and related of-
fenses, a judicial process that has helped strengthen 
peace and encouraged reconciliation between the 
countries of the region and their citizens; 
(10) remains concerned that ethnic tensions 
stoked by political leaders and extreme nationalist 
sentiment can deter recovery and reconciliation in 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and even encourage new 
violence with potentially deadly consequences; 
(11) urges all political leaders in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina to cease using divisive rhetoric to stoke 
ethnic divisions in order to achieve shortsighted po-
litical gains; 
(12) urges all political leaders to demonstrate 
courage by championing tolerance, empathy, and 
mutual respect for the purpose of fostering lasting 
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reconciliation, peace, and prosperity for the people of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina; and 
(13) recognizes the 8,372 people killed or exe-
cuted at Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 
July 1995, along with all individuals who endured 
pain and suffering or who were killed in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, as well as foreign 
nationals, including United States citizens, and 
those individuals in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, and other countries of the region who 
risked or lost their lives because of their defense of 
human rights, fundamental freedoms, and ethnic 
identity without discrimination. 
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