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| We will initiate new legal proceedings against the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, affirmed Camilo Rojo, during a Havana press conference. Photo: José M. Correa |
The committee of relatives of victims who died in the 1976 sabotage of a Cuban airliner over Barbados again demanded that the President of the United States, Barack Obama, initiate the prosecution of Luis Posada Carriles as a terrorist or respond to Venezuela’s request that he be extradited to face charges in that country.
In the name of the more than 5,000 victims of violent attacks on Cuba planned from within U.S. territory, the committee members sent a second letter to the leader - delivered yesterday to the U.S. Interests Section in Havana – in which they demanded justice and denounced the double standard inherent in U.S. policy when it comes to terrorism.
In the name of the more than 5,000 victims of violent attacks on Cuba planned from within U.S. territory, the committee members sent a second letter to the leader - delivered yesterday to the U.S. Interests Section in Havana – in which they demanded justice and denounced the double standard inherent in U.S. policy when it comes to terrorism.
They asserted that the farcical trial held in El Paso, Texas, which this week found Posada innocent, makes even more obvious the injustice of holding five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in U.S. prisons for defending their people.
"We will not cease in our efforts demanding that the United States government honor international treaties and United Nations resolutions on terrorism which it has signed," the committee stated in the text.
Camilo Rojo, a member of the committee, condemned the failure of the U.S. government to act when it has the necessary evidence to prosecute Posada Carriles as a terrorist.
Giustino di Celmo, father of Fabio, who was killed in a 1997 bombing in Havana, said with emotion that the confessed murderer not only mocks the victims of terrorism but the world’s honest men and women, as well.
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