Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-22-Speech-3-333"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-09-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100922.23.3-333"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-22-Speech-3-3342
lpv:speaker	lp:Anne Delvaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; FEMM (2010-08-30--2012-01-18)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Centre Démocrate Humaniste (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, if the truth be known, in taking the floor today, it occurred to me that my previous speech on the subject, which I made almost a year ago, still has relevance. I spoke of extreme urgency, combating impunity and reassessing the MONUC mission. The same statements are being made and repeated, as are calls for the international community and the Congolese authorities to take action. In the meantime, nothing has changed. Tragically, the violence is getting worse. Are we aware that there are reports of hundreds of innocent victims being sacrificed, people humiliated, assaulted, and sometimes even mutilated? The situation is deteriorating and the failures are mounting: the failure of a state whose primary responsibility is to protect its people, the failure of MONUC and now of MONUSCO, which does not seem to have taken any preventive or reactive action in response to the mass rapes perpetrated this summer in North and South Kivu. How much longer will the international community allow this to happen? The acts perpetrated today are the result of a war that has gone on too long. It is true that the next mapping report of the United Nations High Commissioner on the human rights situation between 1993 and 2003 will confirm what we all know: the enormous scale of the crimes committed in the DRC in the past. However, what is important today is the present. It is high time that account were taken of all the crimes committed in the DRC, including sexual violence, which has also been committed on an historic scale. The zero tolerance promised by Joseph Kabila must go hand in hand with zero impunity. All those responsible for human rights abuses must be held to account and, in certain cases, brought before the International Criminal Court. With regard to earlier events, like Mrs Creţu, I urge once again that an international criminal court be established for the DRC. It is our responsibility and that of the international community to ensure that justice is obtained for the hundreds of thousands of victims, past and present, whoever they are, who have fallen over so many years in that long-suffering country."@en1
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