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Statement from UNEAC and the AHS: To the
intellectuals
and artists of the world
WHILE the Book
Fair was taking place from one end of our country to the other and hundreds of
Cuban doctors were saving lives in Haiti, a new campaign against Cuba was being
cooked up. A common criminal with a proven history of violence, who had become a
“political prisoner,” announced that he was undertaking a hunger strike for the
installation of a telephone, stove and television in his cell. Incited by
unscrupulous individuals and despite everything that was done to prolong his
life, Orlando Zapata Tamayo
TRUNCATED RIGHTS
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IN early March, the tribunal created by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and
named after him met in Barcelona. It was originally constituted to judge the war
crimes committed in Vietnam, and subsequently in Latin America, and other
lamentable situations around the world. This time, the Russell Tribunal issued a
ruling on the European Union, finding it guilty of failing to influence Israel
in order to prevent the launch of Operation Cast Lead which, from December 2008
to January 2009, caused the deaths of 1,412 Palestinians and destroyed the scant
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip.
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Cuba criticizes the North’s hypocrisy
on human rights
GENEVA, March
16.— In a speech at the UN Human Rights Council, Cuba today strongly attacked
the hypocrisy and selective memory of the countries of the North, in the hope
that their own atrocities will remain forgotten. Exercising his right to
speak in the debate on situation requiring the Council’s attention,” Resfel Pino,
the Cuban delegate, emphasized that neither the United States nor the European
Union (EU) have the moral authority to question... |
