Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-13-Speech-4-134"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Zimbabwe2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011213.10.4-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-13-Speech-4-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 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) (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the regime of President Mugabe of Zimbabwe is having a very bad press internationally, and with good reasons. Mugabe is sacrificing countless human lives, literally and figuratively, to his utterly ruthless aim of retaining power. The shocking Dutch newspaper headline of less than a week ago ‘Zimbabwe stinks of blood lust’ sadly completely sums up the content of the article by the paper’s correspondent in Harare. The accompanying vulgar cartoon from the Zimbabwean state paper underlines this ominous message. The cartoon turns Mugabe’s major challenger in next year’s presidential elections, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change, into a downright caricature. He is depicted as the yes-man of rich white farmers in his own country and of Western powers. However, Zimbabwean political reality looks completely different. Naked state terror against white farmers, their black managers and agricultural labourers as well as against political opponents of Mugabe’s party, ZANU-PF. State terror manifests itself in ten or so methods of repression: undermining the judicial system, politicisation of the army and police, attacks on press freedom, occupation of the estates of white farmers, slander against independent institutions like the Red Cross, purportedly acting as cover organisations for the opposition, electoral fraud, tapping the opposition’s telephone traffic, detention of and slurs on members of the opposition MDC party, violence and intimidation against supposed supporters of the opposition and, finally, murder of political opponents. In this context, I should like to ask the Commission urgently, in its meeting with Zimbabwean Government representatives at the beginning of next week, to speak up above all for those domestic organisations that help the victims of political violence in Zimbabwe, who now total hundreds of thousands."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"The Herald"1

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