Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-04-Speech-4-164"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Zimbabwe2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020704.8.4-164"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-04-Speech-4-1652
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2002-03-18--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"“When my chickens continued to lay eggs, I was formally in breach of the law”, according to a white farmer in Zimbabwe. This neatly, and tragicomically, sums up the criminal madness of President Mugabe’s land appropriations policy. Criminal madness indeed, for how else can a government policy be described when it simply comes down to pure theft on a massive scale, with probably a huge famine around the corner? Mugabe’s regime prohibits thousands of white farmers from continuing to work. In this way, it also leaves hundreds of thousands of black land workers and their families with no means of support. And this with the winter harvest on the fields … Imagine too the improbable situation which white cattle farmers are facing thanks to Mugabe. Cows simply need to be milked. To the power-mad President and his entourage, the country’s white farmers and the opposition are all one and the same, and they are dealt with mercilessly, even if the country is heading for a humanitarian disaster. By the way, President Mugabe had the audacity to show up in all his glory at last month’s World Food Summit in Rome. At the same time, a Zimbabwean economic expert lamented that “not one government in Africa has condemned this theft of private property”, rightly following that up by asking what trust the outside world can place in the New Partnership for African Development. This joint motion for a resolution faces all African leaders with the same pressing question. It thus calls for credible African action against Mugabe’s reign of terror. I hope and expect that the Council, the Commission and the Member States will actually endorse this appeal."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph