Whereas, in 2018, the United Nations General Assembly amended the title of the annual observance of the genocide in Rwanda on April 7 to be the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda;

Whereas United States officials have noted publicly that the genocide in Rwanda was intended to destroy Tutsi;

Whereas, on April 7, 2023, Secretary of State Blinken stated, The U.S. stands with Rwanda … in remembering the Tutsi victims of genocide. We also mourn the others who were murdered for their opposition to a genocidal regime.;

Whereas the United States Integrated Country Strategy for Rwanda (approved March 14, 2022) refers to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group;

Whereas Rwandan officials, in appropriately opposing genocide denial or revisionism, aptly note that any nomenclature that does not specifically use the phrase genocide against the Tutsi is ambiguous and conducive to genocide denial or revisionism;

Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum notes in its public educational materials on the genocide in Rwanda that the victims were predominantly Tutsi and that the goal of Hutu extremist leaders was for Rwandan Tutsis to be exterminated;

Whereas the United States-based nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch, which played a central role in documenting the genocide in Rwanda and in supporting international efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice, found that the Tutsi were being targeted for elimination;

Whereas European diplomats refer to the genocide against the Tutsi in public statements;

Whereas, starting in 2022, the Government of the United Kingdom has used the terminology genocide against the Tutsi; and

Whereas the United States is the only major country in the world to publicly reject the terminology genocide against the Tutsi: Now, therefore, be it