Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-19-Speech-4-144"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Burma: continued detention of political prisoners2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080619.20.4-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-19-Speech-4-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-11-14--2009-07-13)3,3 member; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the military regime in Burma tries to give the impression that it is maintaining a good policy and important national values against a hostile outside world that is threatening those positive values. It demands unanimous support from the population in defending those values. I wish that claim were true and that the people of Burma could be happy with the situation in the past 40 years, but what are the values that the regime is defending? Four characteristics come to mind. Firstly, privileges for a military caste; a closed armed group controls the administration and the economy. That group can enrich itself, while others stay poor. Secondly, the repression of national minorities, the groups in the country with a different language and culture who want self-government. Their territories were added to Burma in the British colonial period, but there they are relegated to the status of third-rate citizens. Thirdly, foreign revenue is earned with exports based on competition through extremely low wages or forced labour. Fourthly, the systematic refusal to consult with groups that want to change that situation, even though they once won the only free elections this regime dared to hold. With the aid after the flood disaster, we realised how much the regime fears the possibility that foreigners will see at first hand how bad the situation is or that they will influence the population. Internal refugees have to return quickly to devastated villages that have not been rebuilt, purely in order to prevent contact between disaffected masses. Immediately after the disaster, priority was given to holding a referendum whose main purpose was to exclude the democratic opposition permanently from power by means of a false result. The imprisonment of people on political grounds is a means of survival for such a regime. The outside world must stand up for those prisoners and other opponents. China and India should do so, as well as Europe."@en1

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