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dcterms:Date	"2001-10-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Political and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011002.6.2-136"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-02-Speech-2-1372
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, we are facing a war against terrorism that all freedom-loving people must embrace. As you know, I was born in a country that understands terrorism, with 65 000 dead – please remember that the LTT suicide bombers in Sri Lanka are not Muslims – but the world has so far turned a blind eye on twenty-three years of terrorism. The tragedy of 11 September has finally focused the attention of those that love democracy and freedom on the cancer that hides within. The cancer of terrorism. A cancer that is fed, not by religion, but by greed, hate, envy and ignorance. In Afghanistan, the 1963 Constitution as promulgated by King Zahir Shah is an exemplary document. I salute my colleague, Edward McMillan-Scott, for taking the initiative to lead a delegation to Rome to initiate a coalition between the King and the Northern Alliance, which I am happy to say has now been signed, as General Morillon has just mentioned. I want to congratulate General Morillon on inviting Shah Masood here, so that in April we had a chance to meet him. The 1963 Constitution states that liberty is a natural right of each human being – this right has no limitations except the liberty of others, but freedom of thought and expression is invaluable – that every Afghan has a right to print and publish ideas, that education is a right of every Afghan and shall be provided, free of charge, by the State, and that work is a right of every Afghan who has the capability to do it. What a far cry this is from the tragedy existing in Afghanistan today, where women are beaten, denied education, kept at home as slaves and with one in eight dying in childbirth. It is a State run by ignorance using the stick of religion, of which they know little, to cower and terrorise their own people. The war against terrorism is a war to free the people of Afghanistan from the twenty-eight years of slavery. I salute President Bush and the British Prime Minister for their determination – shoulder-to-shoulder with a Democratic Party and Ian Duncan Smith, the leader of the Conservative Party who was here in Parliament today – to defeat and eradicate international terrorism. But this must not be a purely Anglo-Saxon affair. If the EU and this House are to be anything at all, they must have an involvement in ensuring this most basic of human activities; the right to live without being terrorised, the freedom to live without the daily sudden threat of death. We should not think that we in Europe are not targets. We already know of plans to attack Genoa, Paris and elsewhere. When will we learn that is our war too?"@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Deva (PPE-DE )."1

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