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dcterms:Date	"2010-06-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Democratic Republic of Congo: the case of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100617.31.4-266"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-06-17-Speech-4-2672
lpv:speaker	lp:Isabelle Durant2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Parliament's Bureau (2009-07-14--2012-01-16)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Ecologistes Confédérés pour l'Organisation de Luttes Originales (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2009-07-14--2012-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"− Mr President, on the eve of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo, we thought it was important for the European Parliament to give its opinion on the murder of Mr Chebeya Bahizire. Mr Chebeya Bahizire was a human rights defender and the director of the NGO ‘Voice of the Voiceless’. He was a famous Congolese activist. He was found dead in his car in a suburb of Kinshasa on 2 June this year, and his driver, Fidèle Bazana, has not been located or found since. My questions are: why was he killed? Who killed him? I think that, as is emphasised in the resolution, an independent, credible, thorough and transparent committee of inquiry should be set up to establish the truth about the death of Mr Chebeya Bahizire and to shed light on the disappearance of his driver. We are all aware that the general deterioration of the situation of human rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo is particularly worrying. Cases involving many human rights defenders, including Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi in 2005, and several journalists, have still not been solved. Investigations led by the Congolese military authorities have been characterised by serious irregularities. I therefore consider it essential to identify those responsible for these murders, to bring them to justice, in accordance with Congolese law and with international provisions on the protection of human rights, in order to put an end to the impunity. Punishing those responsible for murdering human rights defenders and journalists is an essential part of democracy. We said so again this morning, in Mrs Hautala’s report. The resolution therefore calls on the European Union and on the Democratic Republic of Congo, as signatories to the Cotonou Agreement, which explicitly refers to respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law, to pay particular attention to these matters when evaluating the Agreement. I therefore think that Parliament should encourage the Congolese authorities to comply fully with the declaration on human rights defenders adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1998 and to implement the recommendations of the United Nations 2009 Universal Periodic Review, which are measures designed to protect the rights of human rights defenders. That is the message I will be taking to Kinshasa for the 30 June celebrations. I think it is important to inform people of this."@en1
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