Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-09-Speech-4-206"

PredicateValue (sorted: default)
rdf:type
dcterms:Date
dcterms:Is Part Of
dcterms:Language
lpv:document identification number
"en.20100909.15.4-206"2
lpv:hasSubsequent
lpv:speaker
lpv:spokenAs
lpv:translated text
". The fact that Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir travels freely to many countries in Africa and Asia, despite the fact that the International Criminal Court on 4 March 2009 issued an international arrest warrant for him for crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape, together with war crimes such as planning attacks on civilians in the province of Darfur, shows that the representatives of many African and Asian states do not take their international obligations very seriously and that they have a different threshold of tolerance for crimes committed against defenceless civilians than we do in Europe. The position of the African Union from July 2009, and also of the Arab League, which are refusing to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in this matter, provides clear evidence that many representatives of these countries simply do not see in the actions of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir the kind of deeds that should be judged before the International Criminal Court. In other words, many of them consider tyranny and the crude genocide of millions of civilians as an acceptable procedure, and one which they could employ to deal with the rebellion of a population that had duly failed to appreciate their rule and therefore dared to be dissatisfied. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not sure whether it is correct for the civilised world to provide such rulers with any form of financial or material assistance. Perhaps it would be appropriate to sit down with these rulers as soon as possible and carefully explain to them that violating serious international commitments really is not compatible with the financial and material assistance they receive from us. If they fail to understand this, for whatever reason, it will then be necessary to apply the sort of measures that are applied against other barbarous regimes. It is simply not acceptable that our citizens are contributing in these difficult times to assistance for rulers who are helping to frustrate the provision of justice by the International Criminal Court."@en1
lpv:videoURI

Named graphs describing this resource:

1http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/English.ttl.gz
2http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/Events_and_structure.ttl.gz
3http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/spokenAs.ttl.gz

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph