Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-17-Speech-2-081"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021217.3.2-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-17-Speech-2-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"For centuries, no prosecutions were brought for crimes committed during wars. Cruel intimidation and the murder of civilians were an accepted tool used for engaging in territorial expansion and securing economic spheres of interest. The military was above the law. Not until 1945, after the defeat of Germany and Japan in the Second World War, were war criminals from those countries convicted by the victors. Were they the only war criminals? Or is the designation of war criminal equally applicable to those responsible for the destruction of Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Evidently one needs to be the loser in a war to be tried and sentenced after that war. Partial losers, who have not lost control over their home base, get off scot-free, witness the colonial wars of the Netherlands in Indonesia, France in Algeria and Portugal in Angola and Mozambique. Despite that selective approach, it is good that crimes should be punished, even if an attempt is made to justify them in terms of the exigencies of war. In this way we can discourage repetition in future. Unfortunately the Kirkhope report offers mainly a policy of harassing refugees accused by their political opponents of having dirty hands. It will scarcely help us to prevent future crimes of rulers against their people."@en1

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