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"Mr President, I had the honour of representing the European Parliament on the management committee of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia and one of my colleagues there was Professor Doctor Anton Pelinka, representing the Austrian government. He played an important role in our deliberations, counselling moderation when others wanted to move too far and too fast, resisting cheap easy stereotyping of those we were investigating and imposing fact in preference to fantasy. All in all, he was a frustrating friend for those of us who wanted to move further and faster.
I was therefore shocked to discover that state victimisation has been taking place against Professor Pelinka, first when Haider's lawyer, acting as prosecutor and judge in the case of libel against Mr Haider, whom Professor Pelinka described as responsible for having made National Socialist positions and statements politically acceptable. Second, when he was constructively dismissed from his position as vice-president of the management committee of the Monitoring Centre through administrative harassment by sections of the current Austrian government.
This resolution charges our Committee on Civil Liberties, as Mr Watson requested on Monday, to follow these developments closely. Perhaps we should not be surprised at what has happened. Mr Haider said in 1992 of Professor Pelinka, after the latter had pointed out the Nazi past of Hans Steinecker, a precursor of the Freedom Party: "The time is up for falsifiers of history and those who insult Austria. Pelinka has a disturbed relationship with Carinthia and his manner of permanently propagating falsehoods is unacceptable."
In March this year the Freedom Party said: "The newspapers were right once again. Now he (Häider) is threatening us." But he is not threatening anybody. It is quite normal. When I feed a dog and it bites me then I will not feed it any more because otherwise it may bite me again. The wise men have a hard task in front of them over the coming six months."@en1
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