IV
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 131
Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the situation in Sudan.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 3, 1993
Mr. JOHNSTON of Florida (for himself, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. PAYNE
of New Jersey, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. WOLF, Mr. LANTOS,
Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. GEJDENSON, Mr. EDWARDS of Cali-
fornia, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. MFUME, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr.
WHEAT, 
Mr. 
EMERSON, 
Mr. 
LIVINGSTON, 
Mr. 
WALKER, 
Mr.
ROHRABACHER, Mr. SCHAEFER, Mr. LINDER, Mr. CANADY, Mr. FRANK
of Massachusetts, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. MORAN, Mr.
HALL of Ohio, Mrs. MEEK, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. OLVER, Mr. GORDON,
Mr. WYNN, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. BORSKI,
Mrs. LOWEY, and Mr. MENENDEZ) submitted the following concurrent
resolution; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Foreign Af-
fairs and Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the
situation in Sudan.
Whereas the war-induced famine in southern Sudan is threat-
ening the lives of an estimated 4,000,000 people, and an
estimated 80 percent of children in some areas of south-
ern Sudan are reportedly malnourished;
Whereas the civil war between the Government of Sudan and
the factions of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army,
as well as fighting within the Sudanese People’s Libera-
•HCON 131 IH
tion Army, have resulted in the displacement of millions
of civilians;
Whereas the United States Government has provided over
$130,000,000 in humanitarian assistance to Sudan in fis-
cal years 1992 and 1993;
Whereas access for humanitarian relief organizations has
been inconsistent and subject to the military and political
objectives of the Government of Sudan and Sudanese
People’s Liberation Army factions;
Whereas a human rights group reported in early 1993 that
the Government of Sudan ‘‘is engaged in a program of
military action which appears to amount to ethnic cleans-
ing’’ in the Nuba Mountains and that it continues to tor-
ture political prisoners;
Whereas an estimated 500 unarmed civilians were reportedly
executed by security forces on suspicion that they had
collaborated with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army
after its incursions into Juba in June and July of 1992;
Whereas the Government of Sudan executed Andrew Tombe
and Baudoin Talley (Sudanese employees of the United
States Government) and Mark Laboke Jenner (an em-
ployee of the European Community) in Juba in mid-Au-
gust 1992;
Whereas all factions of the Sudanese People’s Liberation
Army also are responsible for serious abuses of human
rights, including the killing in September 1992 of 4 for-
eign citizens, the reported killing of 87 civilians by the
Nasir faction of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army
in January 1992 in Pagarau, and the reported killing of
200 ‘‘deserters’’ by the Torit group near Tonj in Bahr
al-Ghazal;
•HCON 131 IH
Whereas the government of General Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
which came to power by overthrowing the democratically
elected civilian government on June 30, 1989, formed a
15-member Revolutionary Command Council, abolished
the constitution, the National Assembly, political parties,
and trade unions, and declared a state of emergency;
Whereas the political, religious, and military policies of the
Bashir government have heightened political and religious
tensions in the country;
Whereas the military government in Khartoum has become a
threat to regional stability in part because of its reported
activities in neighboring countries and its relations with
known terrorist and political extremist groups;
Whereas the conflict in southern Sudan, which has dragged
on for over 3 decades, is the result of decades of political,
religious, and economic discrimination against the people
of southern Sudan by successive Arab-dominated govern-
ments in the north;
Whereas the people of southern Sudan have never exercised
their political rights freely, except for a brief period after
the Addis Ababa agreement, and the lack of serious ef-
forts by successive governments in Khartoum has re-
sulted in deep mistrust;
Whereas the divisions within the Sudanese People’s Libera-
tion Army in 1991 have resulted in untold suffering for
the people of southern Sudan; and
Whereas the resolution of the conflict in southern Sudan will
not guarantee respect for human rights and political free-
dom in other regions of the country, and a number of
peace talks between the Government of Sudan and the