Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-14-Speech-4-145"
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"Mr President, last year Mrs Maes, Mrs Carlotti and I were in Chad to look at the pipeline project and its impact on the local people and communities and on the environment. We were also looking at human rights in that country. Today we three have tabled this motion because our concern then for human rights has been compounded now by allegations following the presidential elections. It is right that we should not jump to conclusions. It is right that we should take note of the OAU monitors, who thought that the elections were broadly fair. It is equally right that we should take note of the views of those other observers and human rights groups who thought they were not.
The government of Chad needs to reassure public opinion in Chad and throughout the world by holding an independent and a public inquiry into the allegations that have been made. The European Union should insist on this. We are major investors in Chad and we should certainly be thinking of sending monitors from this Parliament to Chad for next year's parliamentary elections. However, there are questions to which we demand answers.
First, if there are 4 million voters registered in Chad and another half million registered abroad, how can 5.6 million people have voted? Is it true that children were seen with ballot papers? Secondly, why were the OAU and other international observers not allowed into the north of the country? Thirdly, why were the officials of polling stations in the north replaced at midday by military and other civilian personnel? Fourthly, if the total votes recorded in the south were overwhelmingly for opposition candidates as alleged, how can the overall vote have been calculated as it was? Fifthly, is it true, and I believe it was, that a women's delegation seeking to present a petition to the French Ambassador was shot at and dispersed by military personnel? Sixthly, is it true that the six opposition candidates were arrested after the election and one of these, Mr Yorongar, was beaten and wounded? I met him in Chad and I met him again this afternoon when he showed me evidence of the treatment he has been receiving in a Paris hospital. All these questions must be answered and accounted for. That is our demand and it is the demand of the people of Chad."@en1
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