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"Mr President, I must take the opportunity afforded by the presentation of this lengthy report on human rights to highlight the constant violations of these rights which are being committed, on the basis of Stalinist-style legislation, against intellectuals in all fields who dare to give critical or simply independent opinions of the history of the Second World War. The media and the educational world are increasingly obsessed with the tragedy of the concentration camps in the name of interests that have nothing to do with the defence of the victims’ memory.
In Europe, there are currently thousands of historians, sociologists, researchers, experts and ordinary people who are being hounded, persecuted, harassed and condemned. Their only crime is to have assessed, in an independent manner, the ever-changing but sometimes hysterical dogmas imposed on them by hired authors benefiting from full official collusion.
In my home town of Lyons, a young historian with no means of support whom I did not know – Mr Plantin is his name – has been sentenced simply because in the bibliography of a scholarly review which he publishes he included works which correct historical errors which no serious historian of whatever persuasion now accepts. He has been arrested, his computer has been confiscated and each of the usual associations has sued him and extorted large amounts of compensation from him. His former tutors at university have had to apologise, in a show of loathsome cowardice, for the qualifications which they awarded him.
His printer, a rural craftsman, has also been sentenced. He was charged under the act on publications corrupting youth, which could usefully be applied in other areas, and under the legislative act brought in by the French Communist Gayssot according to which, for example, the Germans must still be held responsible for the massacre of thousands of Polish officers at Katyn, even though the Soviets have admitted to this. The magistrates in Lyons who delivered these judgments have simply participated in a witch-hunt.
This is an issue which should be examined by this House, given that it is so keen to guarantee freedom of expression and civil liberties."@en1
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