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 News from Around the Americas | October 2005 
Families of Terrorism Victims Demand Justice from the US
 Prensa Latina
Havana - Families of victims of the "Crime of Barbados" urged the United States to fulfill its international commitments to confront terrorism and not allow that attack to go unpunished by protecting those who planned it.
It is now 29 years since the Cuban airplane was bombed off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976, and the families of the victims made their traditional pilgrimage to the Armed Forces Pantheon in Havana´s Colon Cemetery, where the few remains of their loved ones were interred after recovery from the sea.
Seventy-three people died in that terrorist attack: citizens of Guyana and the Democratic Republic of Korea as well as Cubans, including a Cuban junior fencing team that had won all the gold medals in a tournament a few days earlier.
"We demand that the US government not give any more excuses for protecting Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch," declared Margarita Morales, daughter of Luis Alfredo Morales Diego, coach of the youth fencing team; saying that "we suffered the same pain, the same unfair and criminal loss of innocent loved ones as the people in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001."
She was 14 years old when her father was blown to pieces by the bombs put aboard Cubana de Aviacion Flight CU-455 on the orders of Posada Carriles and Bosch.
"Today we denounce the presence in the United States of those assassins of our parents, sons and spouses. Those monsters count on the immoral protection of the US government," she exclaimed and criticized the decision of the US Department of Homeland Security"s immigration judge who refused Venezuela"s extradition request for Posada.
Raul Rodriguez del Rey, accompanied by his three sons, told Prensa Latina that Bush is "an accomplice of the terrorists who murdered my sister."
Maria Elisa Rodriguez del Rey, 28, was the stewardess aboard; "her death destroyed our family (but) we don"t want vengeance, we only demand justice," Rodriguez said.
Attending the ceremony were the families of the five Cubans still held prisoner in the United States for fighting terrorism, although a US Appellate Court annulled the trial and the sentences meted out in Miami.
"Their mission was to try and avoid more pain and suffering for US and Cuban families," emphasized Margarita Morales, calling their continued detention a form of kidnapping. |
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