From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:02:50 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Cuban Parliament demands justice Following 9-11, Cuba has relentlessly campaigned against terrorism, demonstrating over and over how the island has been subjected to terrorist attacks from its hostile northern neighbor who continues to harbor terrorists such as Orlando Bosch Avila. Yesterday's extraordinary session of the Cuban parliament extended and deepened this effort. =================================== GRANMA October 5, 2001 Parliament demands justice for the Barbados crime An extraordinary session convened for the 25th anniversary of that tragic incident decides to erect a monument to the memory of the victims http://www.granma.cu/ingles/octu1/41parla-i.html THE National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) unanimously approved on October 4 a declaration demanding justice for the 73 victims of the act of terrorism against a Cubana airliner off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976, masterminded by notorious counterrevolutionaries Luis Posada Carriles, currently detained in Panama; and Orlando Bosch, resident in the United States. President Fidel Castro attended the extraordinary session of the legislative body, convened for the 25th anniversary of the horrific crime, during which seven international agreements and protocols to combat terrorism were ratified, thus formalizing Cuba's adherence to the 12 legal instruments in this context adopted by the United Nations. At the same time the National Assembly agreed to erect a monument to the memory of those who lost their lives in what is known here as the Barbados crime. Cuba has the necessary reasons and moral force to demand justice for that crime, notes the declaration, read out by Ricardo Alarc�n, president of the Parliament. It notes that on October 6, 1976, a Cubana Aviation passenger plane was the object of a cowardly act of sabotage resulting in its explosion in full flight off the Barbados coast and the deaths of all the crew and passengers, including the winners of the Central American and Caribbean Junior Fencing Championships and a group of Guyanese students. It continues that the 73 victims are still waiting for justice to be done, as the central guilty parties have never been brought to trial and are still embarked on a criminal career that dates back more than 40 years. The document confirms that those who hatched, planned and masterminded the genocidal incident had a lengthy terrorist going back to the 1960's, when they began to operate in the pay of the Central Intelligence Agency. Their responsibility, it adds, for the sabotage of the Cuban airliner and the cold-blooded murder of all those traveling on it, is known to the U.S. government, which has information on the crime that has not been disclosed, as acknowledged by that country's Justice Department in an official document dated June, 1989. The text affirms that, in spite of those individuals' notorious antecedents (including serious crimes committed on U.S. territory), the Attorney General's finding to the contrary and the opposition of leading U.S. newspapers, one of the two, Orlando Bosch, has been resident in the United States for more than 10 years at the decision of the then president, George Bush and, from there, continues to operate in terrorist activities without being troubled by anyone. It notes that, with the backing of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), this mafioso leader and other known terrorists took out a full-page announcement in a Miami daily on August 22 stating that they would continue to use all means and methods within their reach - not excluding terrorism and violence - against Cuba. The declaration also points out that, after escaping from a Venezuelan jail where he was awaiting trial for the Cuban plane case, Luis Posada Carriles immediately went to work for the White House under the direct orders of Oliver North, being involved in covert U.S. activities in Central America like the Iran-Contras operation. Introducing the document, Alarc�n explained that Jorge Mas Canosa, the deceased CANF president, paid out $50,000 USD to have Posada Carriles sprung from the Venezuelan maximum security prison. The parliamentary declaration underlines that Posada Carriles masterminded the bomb attacks on various tourist installations in Cuba, as well as the attempt on the life of Fidel Castro and thousands of Panamanian students during last year's Ibero-American Summit. It notes that while the entire world is repudiating the brutal terrorist attack of September 11, while resolutions of condemnation are being adopted in the UN and governments are announcing their intentions to punish similar acts of terrorism and avoid their repetition, the General Assembly is demanding that the battle against terrorism should be a genuine one, responding to a genuine will to eliminate it everywhere and in all its forms and manifestations. The text reaffirms that Cuba has the necessary reasons and moral force to demand that justice is done in terms of the October 6, 1976 crime and to call for international efforts to combat terrorism to be sincere, appropriate, impartial, non-discriminatory, non-arrogant, and free of fraudulent manipulation. Finally, it affirms that the island will continue to denounce those responsible for the Barbados crime and demand their punishment. There were many emotive speeches from the 522 deputies present who, together with relatives of those killed in the plane explosion, of the five Cubans unjustly charged and imprisoned in the United States for alleged espionage, and Juan Miguel Gonz�lez, the father of the little child kidnapped by the Miami Cuban-American mafia, as well as other invited guests, observed a one-minute silence in honour of the victims of the Barbados crime. . An extraordinary session convened for the 25th anniversary of that tragic incident decides to erect a monument to the memory of the victims . Ratifies Cuba's adherence to 12 international instruments on the subject of terrorism THE National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) unanimously approved on October 4 a declaration demanding justice for the 73 victims of the act of terrorism against a Cubana airliner off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976, masterminded by notorious counterrevolutionaries Luis Posada Carriles, currently detained in Panama; and Orlando Bosch, resident in the United States. President Fidel Castro attended the extraordinary session of the legislative body, convened for the 25th anniversary of the horrific crime, during which seven international agreements and protocols to combat terrorism were ratified, thus formalizing Cuba's adherence to the 12 legal instruments in this context adopted by the United Nations. At the same time the National Assembly agreed to erect a monument to the memory of those who lost their lives in what is known here as the Barbados crime. Cuba has the necessary reasons and moral force to demand justice for that crime, notes the declaration, read out by Ricardo Alarc�n, president of the Parliament. It notes that on October 6, 1976, a Cubana Aviation passenger plane was the object of a cowardly act of sabotage resulting in its explosion in full flight off the Barbados coast and the deaths of all the crew and passengers, including the winners of the Central American and Caribbean Junior Fencing Championships and a group of Guyanese students. It continues that the 73 victims are still waiting for justice to be done, as the central guilty parties have never been brought to trial and are still embarked on a criminal career that dates back more than 40 years. The document confirms that those who hatched, planned and masterminded the genocidal incident had a lengthy terrorist going back to the 1960's, when they began to operate in the pay of the Central Intelligence Agency. Their responsibility, it adds, for the sabotage of the Cuban airliner and the cold-blooded murder of all those traveling on it, is known to the U.S. government, which has information on the crime that has not been disclosed, as acknowledged by that country's Justice Department in an official document dated June, 1989. The text affirms that, in spite of those individuals' notorious antecedents (including serious crimes committed on U.S. territory), the Attorney General's finding to the contrary and the opposition of leading U.S. newspapers, one of the two, Orlando Bosch, has been resident in the United States for more than 10 years at the decision of the then president, George Bush and, from there, continues to operate in terrorist activities without being troubled by anyone. It notes that, with the backing of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), this mafioso leader and other known terrorists took out a full-page announcement in a Miami daily on August 22 stating that they would continue to use all means and methods within their reach - not excluding terrorism and violence - against Cuba. The declaration also points out that, after escaping from a Venezuelan jail where he was awaiting trial for the Cuban plane case, Luis Posada Carriles immediately went to work for the White House under the direct orders of Oliver North, being involved in covert U.S. activities in Central America like the Iran-Contras operation. Introducing the document, Alarc�n explained that Jorge Mas Canosa, the deceased CANF president, paid out $50,000 USD to have Posada Carriles sprung from the Venezuelan maximum security prison. The parliamentary declaration underlines that Posada Carriles masterminded the bomb attacks on various tourist installations in Cuba, as well as the attempt on the life of Fidel Castro and thousands of Panamanian students during last year's Ibero-American Summit. It notes that while the entire world is repudiating the brutal terrorist attack of September 11, while resolutions of condemnation are being adopted in the UN and governments are announcing their intentions to punish similar acts of terrorism and avoid their repetition, the General Assembly is demanding that the battle against terrorism should be a genuine one, responding to a genuine will to eliminate it everywhere and in all its forms and manifestations. The text reaffirms that Cuba has the necessary reasons and moral force to demand that justice is done in terms of the October 6, 1976 crime and to call for international efforts to combat terrorism to be sincere, appropriate, impartial, non-discriminatory, non-arrogant, and free of fraudulent manipulation. Finally, it affirms that the island will continue to denounce those responsible for the Barbados crime and demand their punishment. There were many emotive speeches from the 522 deputies present who, together with relatives of those killed in the plane explosion, of the five Cubans unjustly charged and imprisoned in the United States for alleged espionage, and Juan Miguel Gonz�lez, the father of the little child kidnapped by the Miami Cuban-American mafia, as well as other invited guests, observed a one-minute silence in honour of the victims of the Barbados crime. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/octu1/41parla-i.html _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
