86Thursday, Feb. 20, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Genocide treaty ratified by Senate
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate ratified a U.N. treaty condemning genocide yesterday on an 83-11 vote after 36 years of conservative opposition to the pact. President Reagan supported the treaty as well as 96 other nations.
It was a personal victory for Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., who was lauded by his colleagues for championing the measure since 1967.
The ratification resolution was adopted after the Senate rejected by a 62-31 vote an amendment by Sen. Steven Symms, R-Idaho, that opponents said would have blocked ratification of the treaty, which grew from the Nazi extermination of Jews in World War II.
Symms wanted to make genocide an international crime for those killing for political reasons, arguing his amendment would put pressure on the Soviet Union for its aggression in Afghanistan and would address such issues as mass murder in Cambodia.
But opponents maintained that the
Reagan wrote Symms that if the treaty was ratified, the United States would pursue amending the treaty in the United Nations to include outlawing genocide for political reasons. After the ratification vote, the Senate adopted, 83-1, a resolution calling for that action. Only Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., voted against the resolution.
addition of that language would kill the ratification process because it would require Reagan to secure agreement from all of the other 96 signatories before he could sign the treaty.
Elie Wiesel, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and survivor of a Nazi death camp, said the action signals the commitment of the United States to human rights.
"I know that a law on genocide will not stop future attempts to commit genocide," Wiesel said. "But at least we as a moral nation, whose memories are alive, have made this statement: We are against genocide."
Ratification marked the end of an
almost 20-year crusade by Proxmire, who has advocated the treaty on the Senate floor at every regular session since Jan. 11, 1967 — more than 3,000 times.
Both Republican and Democratic senators praised him for his dogged determination on the issue.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said it was probable that the United States might have never gotten around to ratifying the pact had it not been for Proxmire.
Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., said, "He conducted an heroic fight, often a very lonely fight."
At a news conference after the vote, Proxmire said, "I'm absolutely elated."
Asked what made the difference, Proxmire, who often opposes Reagan's policies, said, "The president's support."
Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas said the treaty had enormous symbolic value as a worldwide statement of outrage and condemnation over very real horrors — as real as
the Armenian genocide and Hitler's death camps.
All 11 no-votes were cast by Republicans, including Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who successfully led a move to restrict U.S. adherence to the international convention.
Helms was instrumental in getting the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to approve a package of measures that he said seeks to cure a problem with the World Court. It is designed to protect the sovereignty of the United States.
The measures provide that submission of any treaty dispute involving the United States to the World Court requires the prior corset of the U.S. government.
They also stipulate that nothing in the treaty can supersede the Constitution.
One measure states that a pledge to extradite people charged with violating the treaty is applicable only if the act is a criminal offense under the laws of both the United States and the nation requesting extradition.
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