Youth Cuban 5 Conf. in Havana: US Put on Trial for Terrorism and Convicted

"Youths Condemn US Terrorism
Delegates to the Second International Youth Meeting in Solidarity with the Cuban Five tried the US government as the greatest exponent of terrorism and demanded freedom for the Cuban Five and the end of the US blockade against Cuba

By: Nyliam Vázquez García

Email: digital@jrebelde.cip.cu
2009-05-13 | 15:33:18 EST
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Delegates to the Second International Youth Meeting in Solidarity with the Cuban Five condemned the US government during a Youth Trial against Terrorism held on Tuesday at Havana’s Anti-imperialist Tribune.

The oral hearing counted with testimonies by more than ten people, who argued Washington’s culpability from different points of view. At the same time, they demanded the end of the US blockade against Cuba, the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States for more than a decade, the protection of indigenous cultures around the world, and the right of the Palestinian people to their country.

Several victims spoke before the youth tribunal about the pain caused by the death of or forced separation from a relative. The granddaughter of the Cuban co-pilot of the Cubana passenger aircraft bombed in midair over Barbados, the son of Rolando Pérez Quintosa, the daughter of René González —one of the Cuban Five—, and the nephew of Manuel Ascunce Domenech all testified.

“I never met my father; but his example guides me,” said Rolando Pérez Labrada, son of Rolando Pérez Quintosa.

Irma González Salanueva, the daughter of René González, made a special call in the name of the children of the Cuban Five to ask for justice and the condemnation of the real terrorists, who walk unpunished in the streets of Miami.

Also heard at the trial were the voices of the Mapuche people, represented by Mexican and Peruvian students of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM); and from scientists and doctor who in 1981 attended many children infected by hemorrhagic dengue introduced in Cuba by the CIA.

The trial also served to denounce the US’ illegitimacy to include Cuba in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, when all testimonies and events exposed before the youth tribunal and other widely documented by history prove who the real terrorists are.

The ruling was irrevocable and unanimous: the young people condemned the United States as the greatest exponent of terrorism and demanded freedom for the five Cubans unfairly imprisoned for defending their country from US-based terrorist actions.

Following the trial, delegates to the solidarity meeting attended an Interactive International Forum in Solidarity with the Cuban Five carried out at Havana’s Main Computer Center. Also participating in the forum were relatives of the Cuban Five.

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