S.Amdt. 306

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   Inserted: (8) The United Nations Children's Fund, Maranatha Chapel, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, reports from international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch's 1997 report, "The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda", and Amnesty International's 1997 report, "UGANDA: BREAKING GOD'S COMMANDS: THE DESTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD BY THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY", the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State's report "COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES-2000", and others have identified an international crisis involving a group named the Lord's Resistance Army, which is active in northern Uganda and southern Sudan.

   Inserted: (9) Since 1987, the Lord's Resistance Army has conducted a terror campaign against the people of Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan in an effort to overthrow the government of Uganda. The terror is still occurring in 2005, with recent abductions of children and adults and mutilation of those abducted through dismemberment.

   Original wording

   On page 220, between lines 23 and 24, insert the following:

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   Change 2: Inserts “the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army and” after “combat”

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   …combat[inserted: the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army and]…

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   On page 221, line 8, insert “the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army and” after “combat”.

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   Change 3: Replaces “abuses and to” through line 22 with “abuses, with specific attention to the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army…”

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   [struck: abuses and to …][inserted: abuses, with specific attention to the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army, and to increase independent judicial capacity in Sudan, Burundi,]

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   On page 222, line 21, strike “abuses and to” and all that follows through line 22, and insert “abuses, with specific attention to the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army, and to increase independent judicial capacity in Sudan, Burundi,”.

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   Inserted: (d) Report on Lord's Resistance Army Operations in Northern Uganda.--Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, through the International Organizations Bureau of the Department of State, shall submit a report to Congress that contains an analysis of--

   Inserted: (1) the effect the guerilla type warfare described in subsection (a)(8) has had both physically and psychologically on the people of the region;

   Inserted: (2) action that could be taken by the international community, or by the United States, with Uganda to end this terror on the Acholi people;

   Inserted: (3) the reasons that so little has been done by the international community to address this situation; and

   Inserted: (4) the action taken by United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations to relieve this crisis.

   Original wording

   On page 22, after line 24, add the following:

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