At the suggestion and with the help of DFNH Board Member Alexander Lee, Representative Anna Tilton, whose day job is at the Keene State College Holocaust Studies library, will introduce a resolution similar to the following:

Resolution:

Whereas, On 16 February, 2005, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefed the United Nations Security Council on the report of the International Commission of Inquiry (ICI), which found that war crimes and crimes against humanity had been perpetrated by the Sudanese government and its allied janjaweed militias, and

Whereas, the Report of the International Commission of Inquiry established that government forces and the janjaweed are responsible for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law amounting to crimes under international law, including killing of civilians, torture, enforced disappearances, destruction of villages, rape and other forms of sexual violence, pillaging and forced displacement, throughout Darfur and that these acts were conducted on a widespread and systematic basis against the so-called 'African' tribes, and

Whereas, these widespread attacks on civilians led the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience to declare a Genocide Emergency for Darfur, and

Whereas, the United States administration, the President and the former Secretary of State, have declared the attacks to be genocide - a crime against humanity which 136 countries worldwide, including the U.S., have undertaken to prevent and punish as signatories to the Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and

Whereas, the Armenian genocide occurred in 1915 and the Holocaust from 1939 to 1945, the genocide in Rwanda, (highlighted in the recent film " Hotel Rwanda") took place just eleven years ago, and reminds us that genocide is a moral issue that implicates us all and requires our response in order to change what we know will happen with continued inaction,

Resolved, this Legislature calls upon the President of the United States and the State Department to press the UN Security Council to immediately invoke Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, authorizing an international intervention in Darfur. A multi-national force is essential to stop the violence, to provide protection for 2 million internally-displaced Sudanese, to facilitate an urgent expansion of the humanitarian relief effort, and to create a climate in which political negotiations can take place, and

Resolved, this Legislature calls upon the President of the United States to immediately allocate funds for transportation and logistical support as needed, and

Resolved, this Legislature calls upon Senator Judd Gregg, Senator John E. Sununu, Representative Charles Bass, and Representative Jeb Bradley, to support the call for the Chapter 7 intervention and funding, and to initiate a fact-finding initiative that will have the resources to compile information for indictments of perpetrators of international crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, and

Resolved, that a copy of this resolution, signed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, be forwarded by the house clerk to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.