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MOVIMIENTO
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"Trabajando juntos por Cuba Libre" |
Cuban freedom fighters, published a Human Right
Declaration at the International Headquarters of U.N.
City of New York, December 10, 2004
Today, on the anniversary of Human Rights Day, a group of Cubans representing
several organizations and who plead for this cause, gathered at the
International Headquarters of the United Nations to deliver the following
declaration directed at the Secretary - General of the UN and Heads of State,
for its execution and dissemination. The same declaration was delivered to
corresponding civil employees at the Department of Human Rights of this
institution.
The delegation also made pertinent transactions before this organization to
direct an urgent sentence against the Government of Bahamas for the brutal acts
committed recently in Nassau, against our Cuban brothers.
City of New York
December 10, 2004
(International Day of Human Rights)
Distinguished Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN
Distinguished Heads of State
Distinguished Representatives of Humanitarian Organizations:
On the 10th day of December 2004, a group of Cuban Freedom fighters, gathered at
the Palace of the United Nations, City of New York, and proclaimed the
following:
Today it is a very important day for those who love freedom and the right to
life: today we commemorate a new anniversary of the restoration of the Universal
Day of Human Rights.
The Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, established by the United Nations
(the UN) on the 10 of December 1945, gathers in its articles what can be
considered the fundamental, or divine, rights that each human being should enjoy
without limitations.
Lamentably, there are governments that although signatory nations to this
declaration, ignore the moral commitment that this implies. And in their
eagerness to maintain their politics of hatred and absolute control,
systematically promote violence, by applying cruel and degrading measures, in
abominable acts of revenge and repression against the defenseless population.
That is the case in Cuba, our dear mother country, where for more than
forty-five years an infamous regime, that does not respect its citizens and
violates their essential rights, has remained in power by force.
It�s no secret to anyone that the government of Cuba maintains hundreds of
political prisoners in jails and concentration camps. They are jailed and freed
at the regime�s will and at the convenience of the dictatorship, without any
legal, just and respectable procedures. Similarly, the severity and prison
treatment are set according to the interests of the regime. It is well known
that there�s no limit to the mistreatment and torture, nor there exists
established sanctions to determine the period of time that a person condemned
for political discrepancies has to spend behind bars. Everything is subject to
the capricious will of the tyrant who enslaves our nation.
In the international context, on several occasions the government of Cuba has
been condemned by the UN�s Commission on Human Rights, as well as by the
Organization of American States (O.A.S.). Many are governments, humanitarian
institutions and non-governmental organizations that have also shown their
disgust as energetic condemnation to the communist dictatorship of Cuba.
To consider that the United Nations symbolizes the yearnings of justice, freedom
and prosperity, framed its fundamental function within genuinely representative
systems of government, selected by multi-party elections, such as Cubans aspire,
we trust its statutes and its democratic projection. At the same time we
reiterate our unshakeable will to continue fighting relentlessly for the freedom
of Cuba and because for each Cuban, independently of their political philosophy,
religious vocation, race or any other personal condition, we respect their
physical integrity and their human dignity.
Along with the admiration that today�s date inspires, we want to remind each
head of the democratic countries that make up the UN, as well as our Secretary
General, that in the case of Cuba the inspection visits by the Human Rights
Special Inspector approved by majority voting in several meetings of the
Commission on Human Rights, celebrated at the UN headquarters in Geneva, are
still pending. Considering the reasons previously mentioned, we exhort you,
honorable Mr. Kofi Annan, as well as each representative country of the UN, to
take appropriate measures within this organization, in order to prevent
continued violations of the condemning Human Rights resolutions, as is the case
with Cuba, that systematically has refused to allow visits by the Human Rights
Inspector.
We take the opportunity of this occasion to also remind you, finally, that our
country continues to arrest and to arbitrarily apply sanctions; that Cuban
political prisoners remain under a regiment of inhumane imprisonment, degrading
and cruel, which constitute a flagrant violation of the historical concept
contained within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Respectfully,
César L. Alarcón Angel L. Arguelles
President Cuban Movement Ex-political Prisoner
For a Unified Democracy.
Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez Basilio Gúzman
Secretary General Alpha 66, and Ex-political Prisoner
Director Plantados Until Freedom
And Democracy in Cuba
Eusebio Peñalver Roberto Perdomo Díaz
Presidente Unidadm Cubana, and Ex-political Prisoner
Director Plantados Until Freedom
and Democracy in Cuba
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