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Through the rape of my imagination
and of the little space
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that I could call my own,
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they come to tell me
that the Negro is lazy.
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He cannot develop independently.
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But this Negro
that you are crushing to death
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with your economic
and financial machinery
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laid the foundations
of your economy.
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And this Negro
has ensured your development.
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Today, in Mali or other countries,
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if you fall ill
and you have no money,
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you're dead.
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Everything here
concerning democracy or elections
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is nothing but a show,
a big show.
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We occasionally go to vote
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but it's as if we were never there.
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This external legitimacy of power
remains in place today,
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many intellectuals have accepted it,
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but I won't judge anyone.
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But each one of us
had a moment of clarity
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and then made a deliberate choice.
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Either I fully support
the true ideals of my people
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or I sell them off,
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as many of our governments do.
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That's their share of responsibility
in this.
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I think I should have stayed there.
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Perhaps it was better for me
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than coming to work
for a corrupt Mali administration
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that has no responsibilities.
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We end up asking ourselves,
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"Why do we receive a salary?
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"For a job we don't do."
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All of a sudden, we regress
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in relation to goals that we had
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or that we were attaining before.
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They've taken everything from us.
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I didn't realize that poverty,
albeit imposed poverty,
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could change human nature
to this extent.
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But today,
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I may be allowed to assert that
when I step out into the street,
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believe me,
I don't meet other Malians.
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I see everything in Mali
but Malians.
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A man who is hungry,
a man without health care,
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a man who is never educated
and left in total obscurantism,
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is a man who will negate himself
and be in denial.
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He's a man who will become
alienated, lost and depraved.
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You can't come in.
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The witness Samba Diakite.
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Your full name, please.
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Samba Diakite,
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born in Dakar, 1953.
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Hamdallaye district.
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Your profession?
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Former schoolteacher.
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Former schoolteacher.
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You have nothing to say?
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Your date and place of birth.
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I was born in Bamako. I'm 52.
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Do you know
who summoned you as a witness?
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Yes, the plaintiff.
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Yes, the plaintiff. African society.
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Opposite, we have international
financial institutions.
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Are you related or subordinate
in any way
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to either of the two parties?
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In no way at all.
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Raise your right hand.
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Swear to tell nothing but the truth.
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Raise your hand and swear.
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I swear.
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Samba Diakite...
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If you please...
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But trees are vital for life.
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That's true, but to run a company,
you don't need trees.
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Fine...
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All right.
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When the gun vanished,
were you here?
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I was here.
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You didn't move?
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I didn't move.
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But I was told
you went out for a while.
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I went to get a spare part
from Japan Casse.
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Did you find the part?
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No, I didn't.
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Come to my office tomorrow.
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When you add it all up...
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this money squandered...
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these public holdings sold off...
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these families ruined...
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what is your feeling
about that today?
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A feeling of shame,
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of anger...
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Of anger and compassion.
Compassion for the country.
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You see villages
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that lived through the railway
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and that are now obliged,
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after 100 years of existence,
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that are now obliged
to move somewhere else
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because the train no longer stops.
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Life came to those villages
because of the railway.
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When those villages
are obliged to move,
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when their inhabitants,
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in order to buy food,
have to travel by donkey,
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by cart or on foot
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and when the young people
who grew vegetables can't sell them
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because they used to sell
to the train's passengers,
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you witness the start of an exodus.
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And when they are turned back,
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the situation is distressing.
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And when you wrote
on November 4, 2002,
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to the Ministry of Transport,
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you made a serious accusation.
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In reference to the railway,
you wrote,
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"It's the victim of a conspiracy."
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This accusation of conspiracy,
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I presume you have proof of it?
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What elements do you have
to back up this serious accusation
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of conspiracy against the...
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Be quiet!
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Maitre Rappaport, I have to...
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Don't oblige me to...
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The witness never spoke of
a conspiracy!
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The witness spoke of a conspiracy.
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Let's refer to the statement...
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I did indeed speak of a conspiracy.
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In fact,
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a letter was received,
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addressed to the authorities,
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saying that if we refused
to privatize the transport system,
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the World Bank would withdraw
subsidies
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for health and education in Mali.
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It was a confidential letter.
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You can't just come before a court
and say, "There's a conspiracy."
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"How do you know?"
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"I saw a letter."
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Where's the proof of
this conspiracy?
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For example,
is the World Bank to blame
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when a manager buys ballpoint pens
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and pays 1,500 CFA francs
when he can get them for 500?
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Do we truly believe the World Bank
steps in at that level
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or does the World Bank
make the manager plant trees...
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I've finished.
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Are you asking questions
or putting your case?
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Your Honour, the other side...
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You can plead your case later.
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The other side
pretends to ask questions,
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develops lines of argument...
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We're being discreet,
we hardly make any interventions...
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We nonetheless have the right to say
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that the serious accusations
brought before you
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must be backed up
by evidence.
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One should be attacking
those responsible.
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Your Honour,
you asked questions earlier
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that show you have
a few ideas and some information
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about the reasons
for the railway's collapse.
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Maitre Bourdon, please.
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I'm not seeking your approval,
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I'm trying to draw your attention
to some simple points.
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Why would the World Bank
want Mali
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to be deprived
of a means of communication
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and why would it want her inhabitants
to be unable to travel?
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A country
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without a means of communication,
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without energy, without transport,
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cannot really be called
a sovereign nation.
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And those are precisely the areas
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that the multinational companies
wish to take from us.
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That's the case
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and we must not let it happen.
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It's hard...
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but I'm more optimistic than hell.
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I know we can do it.
We just need to get organized.
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Fode!
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Turn it off.
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Your Honour, in relation...
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to this witness, may I petition...
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Petition in relation to...
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Jean-Paul...
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I have a dream every night
that bothers me.
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What's your dream?
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Jean-Paul, I dream...
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I'm in the darkness...
the light...
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In any case, I'm not at home.
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In this dream,
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I'm sitting down
and in front of me
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there's a big bag.
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It's full of the heads
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of heads of state.
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Each time I dip my hand into it,
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I pull the same head out.
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And when I put it back,
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my dream ends and I wake up.
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Is it a black head or not?
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I don't know if it's black or white.
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In any case, it's the same head.
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Don't tell anyone else
about this dream.
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Don't talk about it again.
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That's not how it works legally.
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Maitre Bourdon is giving you lessons
in procedure!
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It's a debate, not a lesson.
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The witness,
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after taking the oath
to tell the truth,
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says that she happened
to come across
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a letter clearly
not addressed to her,
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that she should never have seen,
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and so read the said letter.
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It's incredibly cynical,
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yet typical
of the Bank's general cynicism,
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to say,
"Madame, you must be joking.
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"That letter can't have existed.
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"And if you had it,
you should have copied it
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"and sent it to the press."
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But she would have risked
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years and years of imprisonment,
as you well know.
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- It's a risk...
- A huge risk!
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She cannot play Antigone
for eternity.
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For the moment,
nothing challenges the credibility
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of this embarrassing testimony.
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Maitre Bourdon,
the law says each party
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must provide evidence of its claims.
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So why are you looking here
and not over there?
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Because it's too dark over there.
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You can't see anything.
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The other day,
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you were saying
that the worst after-effect
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of structural adjustment
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was the destruction
of the social fabric.
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This whole part has been erased.
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Can you start again?
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How did that happen?
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I must have recorded
the trial over it.
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Too many cassettes. I get confused.
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No one will listen.
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Don't waste your time.
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I don't know
if we must share that honour
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but, in any case,
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it's a great responsibility for us.
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We know that the audience,
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as is only natural,
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all the lay-offs and the outcasts
who are here,
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who have described their suffering,
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wholly support the plaintiff.
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And we have clearly perceived
that the court's feelings
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are not that far removed
from those of the plaintiff.
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And so it's a great responsibility.
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You claim
the international institutions,
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the World Bank, the IMF
and others you have named,
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are deaf and blind.
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Deaf and blind
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and, if we follow
the reasoning and arguments
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that I have heard here,
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murderers too.
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Murderers even with premeditation...
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since we are reproached
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with incidents that are real
and that we deplore.
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Infant mortality is on the rise
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in Africa.
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This is an attack
on those who will come after us.
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Do you believe,
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that for international institutions,
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those are the results that we seek?
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Do we really want
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life expectancy
in regions of Africa
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to drop and fall below
the age of 50 years?
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People die of diarrhoea in Africa,
people die of malaria
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and we're not responsible.
But they die of those things.
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Someone has said medicine is in
the North and the sick in the South.
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Even if we were guided
by pure self-interest,
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we could not possibly
seek such goals.
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But that is how things are.
We know it and we know why
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because we have worked
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in partnership with governments
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to assess the situation
and to decide
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what needs to be...
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All the same,
we need to raise an issue
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that not only concerns Africa
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but that is particularly detrimental
to Africa.
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I am talking about corruption.
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"Corruption isn't
a natural disaster,
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"it is cold
and calculated pillaging."
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Far be it from me to claim
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that corruption is rife
solely in Africa.
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We know full well that in the West,
large companies,
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Total and oil,
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Thales and arms policy,
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are caught up
in the cycle of corruption.
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But allow me to say
that there is a difference.
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What is it?
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Corruption in Africa,
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given the state
of economic development...
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In the West we must fight corruption
and defeat it
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but its impact
on economic development
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is less serious than in Africa.
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This trial's becoming annoying.
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When is it going to end?
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No one can say.
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And now the polar icecap is melting.
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And the water will flood out.
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What will remain of the icecap
in a few decades?
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People have trouble breathing
in some of our big cities.
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Aren't those common interests
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to be managed together?
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We cannot avoid
dealing with these issues.
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At the same time,
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we are witnessing
the proliferation of weapons.
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What will become of us if, one day,
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a potentate somewhere
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gains access to the atom bomb?
Is that truly impossible?
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And there's another danger.
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We've all referred to it.
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It crosses all continents
and has struck them all.
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One of the elements feeding it
is poverty.
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Terrorism is a danger not only
for Africa but for all of us.
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We want to fight it.
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And the fight against terrorism
cannot succeed
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without the defeat of poverty
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and without giving hope in life
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to those who have lost it today.
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Thank you, Maitre Rappaport.
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But, before going on,
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I would like to ask you...
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Do you consider this court biased?
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Your words seemed to indicate...
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Your Honour,
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prior to being magistrates,
you are men and women
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and you are clearly sensitive
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in particular to the suffering
of your people
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whose causes and reasons
you are aware of.
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And when you see them,
expressing themselves before you,
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your heart suffers
and your thoughts are with them
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rather than with us.
I do not consider that
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to be an abnormal bias.
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Are you Chaka's wife?
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Why?
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I just have a few questions
to ask you.
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If it's about the gun,
I don't know anything.
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It is clearly a great honour
to defend African society.
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It is a great honour to defend
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millions of women and men of honour
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who have been represented superbly
over the last few days
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and who have come to say
that the world, since its creation,
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has always made sure
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that the part of the world
that suffers and endures
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is kept quiet and remains quiet.
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For Africa to remain silent
in her suffering,
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that requires watchdogs.
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It requires prison guards at times.
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Watchdogs, in other words
the American empire
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and its accomplices
in Europe and elsewhere.
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00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,028
It requires Dr Diafoiruses,
Dr Strangeloves
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who draw up prescriptions
that Africans "cannot read"
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and "never follow".
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Prescriptions
of so-called magic potions
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00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,592
that soon turn out to be poisons
with a remarkable effect,
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00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,951
Chinese poisons... And maybe
the Chinese will start too,
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00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,593
making evil absolute.
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As a result,
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I believe your court can easily
declare the World Bank guilty,
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with its accomplices.
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00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,788
After all,
the situation is terrifying.
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00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,999
The figures are murderous
and the statistics homicidal!
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00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,239
We simply need to look back
at the last 20 years
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of structural adjustment.
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00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,871
These plans have caused destruction
and impoverishment.
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00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,431
The figures provide
eloquent information
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on the tragedy taking place.
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00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,311
Life expectancy has dropped
to the age of 46.
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The Aids crisis is manipulated
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to conceal that mortality rates
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are on the rise
because of their link
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to the important
and significant fall
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00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,110
in average income in Africa.
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So the party's over.
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00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,152
The party's over
and the structural adjustment plans
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have failed wholesale.
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50 million African children
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are scheduled to die
over the next five years.
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00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,639
Three million are scheduled to die
of malaria next year.
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00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,839
In the face of such tragic figures,
one will say
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that the World Bank and the others
have won.
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We cannot say it
and we won't say it.
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00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,388
We shall avoid saying it
because structural adjustment
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00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,751
has clearly placed Africa
in a vicious circle,
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00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,479
an absurd circle
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that begins, as we have
clearly seen, with the debt!
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The debt is a stone
around Africa's neck,
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00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,590
the slave's sign of
allegiance to his master.
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00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,870
The figures speak for themselves.
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$220 billion in 2003.
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00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,432
The latest statistics have shown,
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00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,790
Your Honour,
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00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,231
even though $4
has been paid back per African,
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00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,749
$4 remains to be paid.
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00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,349
It is clear that this debt
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00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,230
has brought Africa to her knees
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00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,472
by depriving her
of her financial sovereignty,
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00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,513
by dismantling her civil service.
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00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,592
It has forced her
to sell off her public services
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00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,070
to serve financial predators.
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00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,871
It has razed some of her hospitals
to the ground.
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00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,829
It has privatized her school system
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00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,919
through the low wages
paid to civil servants.
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00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,829
It has brought Africa to her knees,
making her the gloomy mirror
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00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,430
of what the world is becoming:
A privatized world.
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00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,710
And in this privatized world,
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00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,268
the World Bank, in theory humane,
has become inhumane!
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00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,993
The World Bank
has become an inhumane bank
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00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,590
because it is the Trojan horse
of financial capitalism.
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00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,712
Of course, one will say
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00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,031
that the corruption
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00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,551
is shared
by the Africans and the Europeans.
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00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,950
But does the defence dare to assert
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00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,231
that Africans invented corruption?
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00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,392
Is there a chromosome of corruption
in Africa?
413
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,199
Remember the corruptors
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00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,870
come from rich countries,
never from poor ones.
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00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,790
The G8 and the World Bank,
after bringing Africa to her knees,
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00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,591
are now threatening to suspend
all public aid to Africa
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00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,950
because corruption is rife here.
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00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,789
The circle is complete,
confusing causes and consequences.
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00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,592
Murder thus reveals
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00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,350
its sinister side,
the World Bank's cynicism.
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00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,390
Far be it from us, Your Honour,
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00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,950
to claim that the World Bank
feeds on African children
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00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,034
or that it hates
drinking water and public railways!
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00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,239
The World Bank isn't governed
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00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,553
by murderous instincts.
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00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,352
But the World Bank
is simply the cornerstone,
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00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,951
the centre of gravity of
this unchained form of capitalism,
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00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,351
financial capitalism,
predatory capitalism,
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00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,951
capitalism ignoring general
interests to attain its key goals:
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00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,993
The production of profits
for all eternity!
431
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:28,511
The World Bank occasionally tries
to appear more humane
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00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:34,070
and I shall give you an example
of its attempts to be more humane.
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00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,354
A few days ago in Paris,
crying crocodile tears, who said?
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00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,870
"Every week, 200,000 sick children
aged under five
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00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,031
"die in developing countries."
436
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,872
Paul Wolfowitz said that.
437
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,709
Paul Wolfowitz,
the man behind the war in Iraq
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00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,311
that costs more than
providing water to all Africa
439
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,552
and saving Aids victims
with generic drugs.
440
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,110
He's the man who pretended to weep
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00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,880
at a symposium in Paris
a few weeks ago.
442
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,389
Let's end this hypocritical dance.
443
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,319
Let's end
this cursed predatory dance.
444
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,318
Let's consider
the World Bank's arguments.
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00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,473
There seems to be a curse on Africa.
446
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,472
Europe holds up a terrifying mirror
to Africa
447
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:24,759
that pollutes people's minds
and stifles crucial awareness.
448
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,712
Is Africa doomed?
449
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,718
Is poverty as natural
as tropical genocide,
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00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,070
slavery and neo-colonialism?
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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,709
You also find this fatality
in the idea
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00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,473
of an ignorant Africa.
453
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:39,439
What did we hear the other day?
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When Madame Souko had the nerve
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00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,472
to say she could read a balance
sheet, they called her an upstart!
456
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:51,151
The Africans know nothing about
the complexities of this world!
457
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:55,233
Since they know nothing,
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00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,833
all criticism is considered
unfounded.
459
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,191
Yet we have heard it
bravely expressed here.
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00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:07,709
So, yes!
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You will declare the World Bank
guilty of abusing the African people.
462
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,869
You'll declare the World Bank guilty
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00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,710
of failure to render assistance.
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00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,032
You'll declare the World Bank guilty
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00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,829
of not respecting its mandate
to serve mankind.
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00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:26,950
In doing that,
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00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,229
you'll open the path to the utopia
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00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,591
that each one of us has in mind
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00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,150
and allows us to imagine a new world
beyond the hills.
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00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:43,030
This utopia is, in a way,
the African ram
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00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,710
that comes to rub against
and rip the pants
472
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,309
of reasons of state and the market!
473
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,231
Utopia, tomorrow, to avoid
what is under way in the suburbs
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00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,948
of Accra, Abidjan and Cairo
475
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,549
where children drunk on deprivation
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00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,109
could turn into balls of fire
tomorrow.
477
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,559
You'll declare the World Bank guilty
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00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,274
and force it to become more humane.
479
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,471
You'll declare it guilty
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00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,319
of the crimes of inhumanity
and cynicism
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committed over 20 years.
482
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,871
The only sentence possible
483
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,512
is the most modest sentence,
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00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,793
the most clement one.
485
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,840
We can't throw Wolfowitz
in the Niger.
486
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,031
The caimans wouldn't want him.
487
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,113
The sentence
that we request of you...
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Community service for mankind
for all eternity.
489
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,149
I am honoured to appear
before this court
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00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,753
and to lend my robes to defend
a noble and fair cause,
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00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,193
but above all to lend my voice
to Africa's silent majority
492
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,513
that has been subject for 25 years
to the iron law of adjustment,
493
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:22,599
the law of the strongest
that has never been the best.
494
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,670
Yes, Your Honour,
adjustment is an evil,
495
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,189
an organized and structured evil
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00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,392
administered and inoculated
to our people.
497
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,189
This evil, Your Honour,
is the cynicism of the debt,
498
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,039
the vicious circle of the debt.
499
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,869
This debt that has ruined
our economies
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00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,432
and that has sapped our energy
before we have finished paying it.
501
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,359
What must we do,
faced with the debt's violence?
502
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,591
I hear the Latin Americans.
503
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,631
They told us, Your Honour...
504
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,711
"The debt can't be paid."
505
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,669
Yes, it cannot be paid
because it is illegitimate.
506
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,911
Because it is violent.
507
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,073
It cannot be paid
simply because it is untenable.
508
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,712
On top of the debt's violence,
we witness
509
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,952
the selling off
of our public services,
510
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,509
our basic social services...
Privatization!
511
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,312
The health service
has been privatized
512
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,911
but between June and September 2005,
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00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:30,711
42,000 people died of cholera,
a mediaeval disease
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00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,270
that was thought
to have been eradicated here.
515
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,711
We don't need to look far.
516
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,072
Here, in this room,
a patient lies suffering.
517
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,799
Do you hear his moans?
518
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,512
I've heard them.
And we're privatizing health!
519
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,553
And that's not all!
We're privatizing education,
520
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,150
a universal right.
521
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,911
The acquisition of knowledge
should be the same for all
522
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,471
but two thirds of our children
are illiterate
523
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,911
and now we�re being asked to pay
to acquire knowledge!
524
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:09,150
That's not all! Our public services
have been sold off.
525
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,230
Water has been privatized.
526
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,199
The Joliba, Senegal,
Zambezi, Limpopo!
527
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,913
Our rivers privatized!
528
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,429
With our stories,
legends and traditions
529
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,712
buried in the current,
rivers and lakes!
530
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,791
That's inadmissible.
531
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,919
This people is a widow
mourning the death of a husband
532
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,839
buried under the ruins
of adjustment.
533
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,271
This people is an orphan
crying for a mother
534
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,839
who died in childbirth.
535
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:41,272
All it asks for is its due:
Basic health care.
536
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,911
This people is a father,
made redundant by the railway,
537
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,991
these men you have heard,
538
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,919
these women who have pleaded
on your stand.
539
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,272
The father who has seen
his authority,
540
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,711
who has seen his influence
and his dignity
541
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,953
weakened and swept away
by an unfair redundancy.
542
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,630
This people, Your Honour,
is Zegue Bamba.
543
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,389
Have you heard, Your Honour,
Zegue Bamba's lament?
544
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,479
This peasant who asks,
"Why don't I sow anymore?
545
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,591
"When I sow, why don't I reap?
546
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,791
"Why don't I eat when I reap?"
547
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,952
This Africa, Your Honour,
548
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,749
is asking you with dignity,
humility and modesty,
549
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,831
but with legitimacy, for justice.
550
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,508
You must do justice to Africa.
551
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:33,759
You must not do this
by condemning the World Bank.
552
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,032
You will achieve it, Your Honour,
553
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,511
by forcing the World Bank,
the IMF, the WTO and the G8,
554
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,631
along with their accomplices,
555
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,472
to respect their mandate
556
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,672
that they should never
have forgotten, with man
557
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,713
as the goal of all humane action.
558
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,310
It's your responsibility, sir,
559
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,552
since your pen
will be signing the ruling.
560
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,394
It's mine too,
through the robes I wear.
561
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,990
And we're all responsible
because it's our duty as a generation
562
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:06,073
to bring about the advent
of that day
563
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,552
for the balance of the world
and of man's future is at stake.
564
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,710
"My ear to the ground,
565
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,793
"I heard tomorrow pass by"
566
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,029
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