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Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should recognize the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as “the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda”.

S. Res. 537 · 118th Congress · Jan 31, 2024 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should recognize the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

That it is the sense of the Senate that—
(1)
the United States should recognize the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as “the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda”;
(2)
the Secretary of State should publicly affirm that terminology; and
(3)
other types of atrocities occurred alongside the genocide against the Tutsi, and the history of the genocide should clearly affirm the other experiences of mass violence against Rwandans during the same period, including the killings and other violence experienced by Hutus and the Indigenous Twa community, perpetrated by Hutu extremist militias.