Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-13-Speech-4-158"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011213.12.4-158"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-13-Speech-4-1592
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, so it is true after all: Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network is definitely operating in Indonesia. It has training camps in, among other places, Sulawesi, the island to which I shall confine myself to referring in this speech. Using the Islamic terror group Laskar Jihad as a front, thousands of these fighters, some of them foreign, recently arrived on the island of Sulawesi. The thirty-nine-year-old Ya'far Umar Thalib from Yogyakarta, Pakistan-trained leader of this terrorist organisation set up in the late 1990s, denies the presence of Bin Laden’s followers. The opposite turns out to be true. Only yesterday did the head of the Indonesian national security service, ex-general Hendro Pliono, after a meeting with President Megawati Sukarnoputri, confirm that Al Qaeda is operating on Indonesian territory. I hope that the Indonesian authorities will not content themselves with making these statements. I call on them urgently to act decisively against Laskar Jihad and this offshoot of Al Qaeda, as there is no time to lose. Since the conflict first erupted on Amboina on 19 January 1999, one day before the Islamic festival of Idul Fitr, Laskar Jihad has murdered at least 10 000 Christians and has put many times that number to flight in terror of their lives. I am extremely concerned that after the Moluccas this anti-Christian force should have found its way to Sulawesi too. I still have a vivid recollection of the story documented this autumn of the eight-year-old Christian boy. The boy was sitting on the bus with his mother. En route, some 50 Muslim terrorists forced the vehicle to stop. The attackers checked the passengers’ religious identity. Two turned out to be Christians, the woman and her son. They dragged the boy off the bus with brute force, leaving the mother behind utterly distraught. The young victim’s terrified screams were to no avail. The terrorists dragged him over the asphalt into the jungle, and nothing more was heard of him. Just one of the countless documented attacks on buses by Laskar Jihad in Sulawesi. I ask both the Council and the Commission to do their utmost to contribute to the combating of terrorism in Indonesia, to explore in what way they could support a process of conciliation on the ground, and to examine what measures they can take to promote economic development in this region."@en1

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