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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><b>Against terrorism,
in defense of humanity: an appeal<br><br>
</font>publicrelations@cubanmission.com <br><br>
</b><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>In view of the
recommendations made at the International “Against Terrorism, For Peace
and Justice” Symposium, the undersigned, members of the “In Defense of
Humanity” network of networks, have reviewed the denunciations, proposals
and reports submitted by the 681 participants from 67 countries who met
in Havana on 2, 3 and 4 June 2005, and make a call to create a movement
against terrorism that will denounce and condemn the age of terror
spawned by the United States in our hemisphere, affecting us since the
second half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. <br><br>
<br><br>
The moving testimonies of victims and their relatives and the
well-documented reports of respected jurists, statespeople, journalists,
economists and other intellectuals committed to the defense of human
rights, allowed us to reconstruct the history of terrorist actions,
committed with impunity, which numerous US administrations perpetrated in
Souther Cone countries, Central America and the Caribbean, in complicity
with Latin American and Caribbean leaders, armies and police forces.
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The people have a right to know the truth. Those who wage a genocidal war
in the name of a war on terrorism must not be allowed to cover up their
systematic use of the most perverse of terrorist methods against the
peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. There is an urgent need to
break the silence which shrouds the past, present and forseeable future
of this criminal policy. <br><br>
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It is impossible to suppress the intimate, proven and documented ties of
international terrorsits to the US White House, State Department
and intelligence services. One cannot forget the atrocious consequences
of Operation Condor, that International of Terror, as Nobel Prize for
Peace recipient Adolfo Pérez Esquivel would call it, nor those of the
dirty war waged in Central America and the Caribbean. The crimes of those
who have worked for the CIA and of the high officials of successive US
administrations cannot go unpunished. <br><br>
<br><br>
George H. W. Bush, father of the current US leader, must be held
accountable, as ex CIA director, for the creation, with Cuban born
terrorists, of CORU, an organization responsible for the assassination of
ex Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Orlando Letelier and the murder of
US citizen Ronnie Moffit, the midair bombing of a civilian plane with 73
people on board and other crimes against humanity. The same terrorists
collaborated with Pinochet’s DINA, and other repressive bodies of South
American military dictatorships, in the planning and execution of
Operation Condor. Then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger must also be
held accountable for these genocidal crimes. <br><br>
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The close ties of Florida’s current governor, Jeb Bush, to the Cuban
American National Foundation and other terrorist groups based in Miami
must be denounced. These organizations made a decisive contribution to
the fraudulent electoral victory of his brother in the 2000 presidential
elections; they financed terrorist actions against Cuban tourist
facilities, actions Posada Carriles admitted to in an interview for the
New York Times and American television, the latter’s “pardon” in Panama
and his stay in the United States the past two months; they organized and
financed his escape from a Venezuelan prison and coordinated his work
with the White House in Iran-Contra and US-supported state-terrorist and
dirty war strategies in Central America. Today more than ever, we must
denounce this long-standing network of accomplices which sustains the
impunity and the protection illegally granted by US authorities to Luis
Posada Carriles, ignoring the well-founded extradition request submitted
by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is the same protection they
have offered an hope to maintain for Orlando Bosch, securing impunity for
his crimes. <br><br>
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We must reveal the terrorist nature of the alliance that, against the
interests of the American people, the Bush dynasty has established with
the Miami mob and which dishonours the memory of those who perished on 11
September 2001 and in the name of a supposed war on terrorism. The US
people, who mobilized against fascism in World War II and
contributed to ending the Vietnam war, who supported the civil rights
struggle and the return of Elián González to Cuba, must be informed,
through all the mass media, about the criminal actions of its government.
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The impunity of terrorists cannot continue. No crime can go unpunished.
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BECAUSE OF ALL THIS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO INITIATE AN INTERNATIONAL
MOVEMENT AGAINST TERRORISM BASED ON THE “IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY’ NETWORK
OF NETWORKS, TO UNDERTAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS: <br><br>
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<li>Establish an Anti-Terrorist Observatory for the
hemisphere.</font><font face="arial" size=3> </font>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Create a data base which
gathers information on these genocidal policies.
<li>Prepare and publish an Encyclopedia on Terrorism in the hemisphere,
to include the essential concepts and categories, the background of the
genocidal agents, repressive bodies and terrorists involved, a chronology
of these criminal actions and a description of the national and
supra-national components of the terror apparatus.
<li>Create a collection of works on historical memory and terrorism.
<li>Create the “Against Terrorism, in Defense of Humanity” Hemisphere
Court, to be made up of prestigious jurists, intellectuals and human
rights activists, to try Henry Kissenger, George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb
Bush, George Walker Bush and the following current or ex State Department
or National Security Council officials Oliver North, John Dimitri
Negroponte and Otto Reich, for setting in motion and encouraging state
terrorism in Latin America, the Caribbean and even the United States, in
flagrant violation of international and US law, putting the lives of
their own citizens in danger; for recruiting, training and financing
terrorist groups and for the protection they have offered and continue to
offer Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles and other renowned perpetrators
of criminal actions that have claimed the lives of ten of thousands of
innocent people.</font>
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The work of this court will be handled by four commissions: a commission
for the gathering of testimonies and documentary evidence; for research
and analysis; for technical and juridical matters and for information and
dissemination.<br><br>
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This is the commitment assumed in Havana: to defend ethical values and
dignity, in defiance of brute force and terror, and to carry out law and
justice. All voices must be raised against these crimes. We shall not
rest until the murderers are tried and convicted. Silence only benefits
terrorists and those who protect them. We shall not rest until the path
is cleared for truth. As Fidel has said: “Humanity yearns for justice”.
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Havana, 10 June 2005<br><br>
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Francois Houtart, Belgium; Isabel Parra, Chile; James Cockcroft,
USA; Pablo González Casanova, Victor Flores Olea, Gilberto López y Rivas
and Juan Bañuelo, Mexico; Thiago de Mello, Beto Almeida, Roberto Amaral,
Beth Carvalho, María Ciavatta and Marilia Guimaraes, Brazil; Roberto
Fernandez Retamar, Cuba; Marcos Roitman, Manuel Talens, Jaime Losada,
Alicia Hermida and Carlos Tena, Spain; Miguel Bonasso, Stella
Calloni, Ana de Skalon, Tristán Bauer, Atilio Borón, Néstor Kohan,
Carlos Ruta, Luciano Alzaga and Marcelo Cafiso, Argentina; Hernando
Calvo Ospina, Colombia; Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivia; Antonio Pecci, Paraguay;
Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador; Gennaro Carotenuto, Italy; Tarik Souki,
Venezuela; Samuel Blixen, Uruguay.<br><br>
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