A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.

Bill: 116-sconres-32
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2020-01-07
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Historical and cultural resources

Military operations and strategy

War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S59)

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.</p>

tv_txt: III 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. CON. RES. 32 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 7, 2020 Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Warren , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Reed , Mr. Booker , Mr. Wyden , and Ms. Klobuchar ) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.

Whereas attacking cultural sites is illegal under the Geneva Conventions and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; and Whereas, on January 6, 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper expressed that the United States would not target Iranian cultural sites, as the United States follow[s] the laws of armed conflict : Now, therefore, be it

That attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.