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H.RES.533
Sponsor: Rep Rohrabacher, Dana(introduced 9/11/1998)
Latest Major Action: 10/10/1998 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the culpability of Hun Sen for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Cambodia (the former Kampuchea, the People's Republic of Kampuchea, and the State of Cambodia).
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STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions) (Floor Actions/Congressional Record Page References)

          See also: Related House Committee Documents
9/11/1998:
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
10/2/1998:
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
10/2/1998:
Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, (Amended) by Voice Vote.
10/10/1998 4:07pm:
Mr. Gilman moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
10/10/1998 4:07pm:
Considered under suspension of the rules.
10/10/1998 4:27pm:
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
10/10/1998 4:27pm:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
10/10/1998 4:27pm:
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.

COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

***NONE***


COSPONSORS(8), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Bereuter, Doug - 10/2/1998 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/23/1998
Rep English, Phil - 9/23/1998 Rep Gilman, Benjamin A. - 9/22/1998
Rep Lipinski, William O. - 9/24/1998 Rep McGovern, James P. - 10/2/1998
Rep Moran, James P. - 9/24/1998 Rep Solomon, Gerald B. H. - 9/22/1998


SUMMARY AS OF:
10/10/1998--Passed House, amended.    (There is 1
other summary)

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should: (1) establish a collection of information that can be supplied to an appropriate international judicial tribunal for use as evidence to support a possible indictment and trial of Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, for violations of international humanitarian law after 1978; (2) provide the tribunal any such information already collected; (3) work with members of interested countries and nongovernmental organizations relating to information any country or organization may hold concerning allegations posed against Hun Sen and any individual under his authority in Cambodia and give all such information to the tribunal; (4) work with other interested countries relating to measures to be taken to bring to justice Hun Sen and individuals under Hun Sen's authority indicted for such violations of international humanitarian law after 1978; and (5) support such a tribunal for the purpose of investigating Hun Sen's possible criminal culpability for conceiving, directing, and sustaining a variety of actions in violation of international humanitarian law after 1978 in any judicial proceeding that may result.

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