Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-15-Speech-3-179"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in East Timor (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.11.3-179"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-1802
lpv:speaker	lp:Claudio Fava2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to read out a few lines: “in 1975 Indonesia took control of Timor, beginning the oppression which led to the death of a third of the population through hunger, epidemics, war and a reign of terror.” This is not a piece of journalism or a summary, but the statement that was made when Ximenes Belo and José Ramos Horta were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 11 November 1996. The holocaust which led to the death of 250,000 people in East Timor is already history, with the last ten thousand killed over recent weeks. Regarding this holocaust, I do not think that our institution or any European citizen can afford to feel astonished: we do not have the right to, we have definitively lost our innocence. For a long time, the international community has allowed the so-called development dictatorships to survive, from Indonesia to the Chile of the to China and Korea, those countries where, for the sake of macro-economics, we have tolerated market interests prevailing over the interests of human rights. We have tolerated intolerance and violence. I hope that our guilt will not now be added to the international community’s guilt. I am happy that the Council has decided on a common position, a symbolic four-month embargo on arms, ammunition and military equipment. I hope that this embargo will be extended to supplies now being prepared so that we can avoid feeling even more remorse in the future. I want to point out that at this time, my indignation has nothing to do with the language that the inhabitants of East Timor speak. My problem is that for twenty-five years, the population of East Timor has not had a voice."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Boys"1 "Chicago"1

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