104th Congress > House > Vote 961

Date: March 27, 1996

Result: 409-0 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 95

Vote Subject Matter: Foreign and Defense Policy / Foreign Policy Resolutions

Sponsor: PORTER, John Edward (R-IL)

Bill number: HRES379

Question: Suspend the rules and agree

Description: Eighth Anniversary of the Massacre of the Kurds

Bill summary: Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Administration should: (1) mark the eighth anniversary of the death of over 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in the 1988 chemical attack by the Iraqi Government on Halabja; (2) reaffirm the U.S. commitment to protect and help the Kurdish people in Iraq; (3) support efforts to promote a democratic alternative to the present regime in Iraq; and (4) renew efforts to establish an international war crime tribunal to prosecute Iraqi leaders involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Bill titles: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the eighth anniversary of the massacre of over 5,000 Kurds as a result of a gas bomb attack by the Iraqi government.

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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