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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-OCT. 6, 1992 106 STAT. 5207 [H. Con. Res. 376] OFFICIAL DUPLICATES OF BILLS AND ^^,,,,, RESOLUTIONS-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,^nJ'J^.l AND SENATE Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate; each shall prepare, sign, and furnish to the other as appropriate, official duplicates of the papers of the two Houses on the following bills and resolutions of the One Hundred Second Congress: H.R. 5400, H.R. 5194, H.R. 5427, S. 2532, S. 1985, S. 1002, S. 893, S. 1569, S. 225, S. 758, S. 759, S. 1146, and S. 2661. Each official duplicate shall be in a form certified by the Clerk or the Secretary to be true. An official duplicato certified as true shall be considered for all purposes as original. Agreed to October 5, 1992. SUDAN—HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Whereas the Government of Sudan engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationaly recognized human rights; Whereas Sudanese military forces and the resistance movement, the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army, are currently engaged in a battle for the southern capital of Juba without regard for the welfare of its civilian population, some 300,000 of whom are existing only on the intermittent provision of relief supplies; Whereas the Government of Sudan is engaging in gross abuses of human rights elsewhere in the country, including a campaign of forced displacement of tens of thousands of Nuba from their ancestral homes in southern Kordofan Province, the destruction of Nuba villages, and the killing of hundreds of civilians; Whereas the Government of Sudan has undertaken a cruel campaign to relocate some 500,000 internally displaced southerners and westerners from the outskirts of Khartoum to inhospitable camps far from the city, has announced plans to relocate an additional 250,000 in the coming months, and inhibited many international relief agencies from aiding the displaced; Whereas the Government of Sudan has systematically harassed international relief agencies and workers whose only objective is to reduce suffering among Sudanese citizens in need; Whereas the Government of Sudan is engaging in the imprisonment, torture, and execution of suspected dissidents across the country; and Whereas, in September 1992, the Government of Sudan executed in Juba one and possibly two employees of the United States Agency for International Development after trials in which the victims had no possibility of appropriate counsel or appeal: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Senate— (1) condemns the egregious human rights abuses by the Government of Sudan and calls upon the Government of Sudan to cease its abuses of internationaly recognized human rights and specifically— Oct. 6, 1992 [S. Con. Res. 140]