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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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