Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-17-Speech-3-017"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Use of depleted uranium in Bosnia and Kosovo (Balkan syndrome)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010117.1.3-017"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-17-Speech-3-0182
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Pannella2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-09-04--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 1950, when I was 20 years old, a campaign exploded throughout the entire world: in Europe, in our universities, in schools – they attempted without success as yet to penetrate the churches – and it was the campaign against Ridgway, the "Plague General". It was the time of the war waged by the US, by the West, by the capitalists in Korea against the rights of the Koreans. The entire communist organisation, the entire hypocritical structure of you good old communists of the '50s, '60s and '70s, mobilised itself to inform us that Ridgway, the "Plague General", was on the 50th parallel – this was before the Atlantic Alliance in the Far East – and was using chemical and bacteriological weapons to defend the unjust, capitalist society oppressing the Third World and his own people. Communist campaigns, socialist campaigns – for then you had the Stalin Peace Awards at various crucial moments, between 1950 and 1953 – a few trembling papists here and there, would you mind conceding us a moment of respite from your retrospective moralising, from your constant quest to apportion blame? You conceded very little. Of course the Dresden bombings in the Great War may not have been necessary and may have been criminal, but the truth is that you do not gloss over this: you communists will not leave us alone with your pacifist line-up. Well then, a European Parliament which is now faced with a motion calling for such respite is cowardly, reckless, antidemocratic and irresponsible: antidemocratic in any case because it is disregarding the commitments called for by parliaments and governments in times of need. We cannot wait to find out the scientific truth about these weapons, but if they had been used to prevent Vukovar being raised to the ground as it was, we would have spared the lives of tens, hundreds of thousands of Bosnians, Kosovars, Serbs and others in Croatia. I therefore thank you, Madam President, and I await the revelation of the truth which must be ascertained in the face of our tendency to distort and abuse it ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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