Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-28-Speech-4-170"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I passionately hope that next Tuesday the American people will defeat Mr Bush’s extreme right government. That would be the quickest way to put an end to the medieval treatment being suffered by the prisoners of war in Guantánamo.
That government has taken a step backwards from civilisation in favour of barbarism, through pre-emptive war. We are talking about the collateral damage resulting from pre-emptive war, such as the humiliation of prisoners of war in Guantánamo, where the Geneva Convention is not respected, where people are denied the right to a public and fair trial, to legal representation, and people are tortured. We already have the testimonies of people who have been tortured.
What are we Europeans waiting for? Yesterday this Parliament gave a lesson in the sensitivity of managing the protection of freedoms. So the old Europe cannot remain silent in the face of an administration responsible for the ignominy of having prisoners of war bound and gagged in truly medieval dungeons. The old Europe cannot tolerate that. We must therefore speak out clearly, and I agree with my fellow Spaniard, who has said that this resolution is important, but that it is very mild. We must speak out more loudly against the ignominy of Guantánamo."@en1
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