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Tugboat sinking a crime |
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Neri Martinez |
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Jan 26, 06 - 10:49 AM |
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freecubanow@hotmail.com |
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http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/ |
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Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006
Tugboat sinking a crime
The Jan. 22 article Mob attacks on Castro's critics are increasing offered a penetrating analysis of current trends inside Cuba with regard to the dictatorship and its internal opposition. Nevertheless, I was disturbed to see that one part of the historical record was inaccurate.
The ''13 de Marzo'' tugboat sinking on July 13, 1994, was a massacre not a disaster. The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights' October 1996 report concluded that the Cuban state was responsible. The murder of fleeing refugees by agents of the Cuban government has been documented time and again over the years. This was not a disaster but a premeditated criminal act carried out by a dictatorship with 47 years of such actions. Ten years ago, on Feb. 24, on a Saturday afternoon after plotting for weeks, two MiGs shot down and murdered three U.S. citizens and one U.S. resident while their planes were in international airspace.
The people responsible should be held accountable. And the memory of these crimes should be kept crystal clear for the historical record. We must remember. To forget is to invite more such crimes.
NERI MARTINEZ, president, Free Cuba Foundation,
Florida International University, Miami
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/13713621.htm |
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