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Statement from the Committee of Families of Victims
of the Cuban Airliner Sabotage
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USA must try Posada as a terrorist
WITH stupor and indignation, we
have learned that the United States Justice
Department has indicted notorious terrorist Luis
Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles on seven charges,
solely for having lied to immigration authorities
when he applied for citizenship.
To our surprise, the charges make
no reference to the fact that he is an actively
dangerous international terrorist who, from the
prison where he is being held is still bragging
about the pain and mourning that he caused in the
hearts of countless families throughout the world.
If we were to indifferently
accept that Justice Department decision, we would
become accomplices to the lies, we would accept the
fact that important truths are not being told, and
that would be an insult to the memory of the
thousands of citizens who have lost their lives as
the victims of terrorist actions.
To accept that the notorious
international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles will
only be tried as an inoffensive liar is to accept
the outlandish idea that our families were never
massacred in the mid-flight sabotage of a Cubana
Aviation airliner. It is as if tourists visiting New
York were told to go admire the beauty of the Twin
Towers, as if those majestic buildings had never
been destroyed on the fatal day of September 11,
2001.
We call on the United States
government to honor the truth; we demand that the
United States government makes public the documents
it has in its possession, and that it reveals the
terrorist character of Luis Posada Carriles.
We call on the United States
government to either bring Luis Posada Carriles to
trial as a terrorist, or to accept the extradition
application submitted by the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela on June 15, 2005.
We do not want the notorious
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to be tried solely
for the lies he has told; we demand that the man who
murdered our relatives with impunity be brought to
justice, and that he be brought to trial for the
truths that he has admitted to the United States
media itself.
Translated by Granma International |
