Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-06-Speech-3-308"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Evans2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, my congratulations to the rapporteur and to other colleagues. But this report has to be more than just words in a document. It has to be a report for action. Paragraph 1 says: ‘Considers that the EU needs to move towards a coherent and consistent policy of upholding and promoting human rights around the world’ and to do so ‘more effectively’. I want to address my remarks to the situation in Sri Lanka, and several points in this report are applicable there. Paragraph 63 refers to the recruitment of child soldiers, which I, and I am sure other colleagues, deplore. I think it is paragraph 48 that refers to the death penalty. Since the beginning of the year, some 5 000 civilians have been killed by attacks by the Sri Lankan Government on their own territory: tantamount, I would suggest, to the death penalty and the death of innocent citizens. The Sri Lankan Government and their military stand accused of a string of human rights abuses of their own people, from bombing of hospitals, the use of illegal weapons to denying humanitarian and medical…"@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker.)"1 "Robert Evans (PSE ). -"1
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