Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-06-Speech-3-281"
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"Peace will not be achieved in the Balkans until we stop applying different standards to the different communities. Anyone who thinks that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia applies the same standards to everyone is very much mistaken. It is quite intolerable that the pilot of the plane that fired two missiles at a train travelling over a bridge, the second one of which hit a pillar and destroyed both the bridge and the train, has not yet been brought before the Tribunal. There is no point pretending that you are unaware of these things, ladies and gentlemen. How many Albanians or foreign Muslim mercenaries have been sentenced so far? Some of these people are now ruling over Kosovo, and they have your backing. Can you sleep soundly at night, ladies and gentlemen? Are you quite happy to discuss such matters calmly in this Chamber? As if that were not enough, you even want to endorse their split from Serbia. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Paragraph 4 of the motion for a resolution quite rightly says that all those guilty of war crimes must be caught and brought before the Tribunal, and I believe that you are quite serious about this. If that is the case, then you should monitor the work done by the Tribunal. If you have even a shred of honour, then we should try to ensure that this issue appears on the agenda again in the near future. If you believe that those in power are and will continue to be exempt from punishment, then you should say so quite clearly. The public in the EU and in the rest of the world will doubtless react in such a way that makes it quite clear what they think about such hypocrisy. The amputated heads and maimed bodies of the victims should not be forgotten, and both friends and enemies should be subject to the same justice. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are still waiting to return home, for example to Slavonia and the border regions between Croatia and Bosnia. Today the Czech people are commemorating the 490th anniversary of the burning at the stake of Jan Hus by the Catholic church. He has not yet been rehabilitated."@en1
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