Ottawa Cuba Connections and l'Association d'amitié Outaouais-Cuba
We vigorously condemn the most recent terrorist attack on Sunday evening September 24 against the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, where two Molotov cocktails were hurled at the embassy building. Luckily, no one was injured, but no members of a diplomatic personnel should have to endure such threats to their well-being and to their very lives.
The 1961 Vienna Convention stipulates that embassy premises are inviolable, and that the receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusions or damage, and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.
What measures were taken by governments to reinforce this convention in light of the April 2020 attack against the embassy building when multiple rounds of bullets were fired from an AK-47 assault rifle? Cuba informs us that since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, 581 such attacks have taken place against the country's diplomatic representation abroad, killing approximately 365 people and injuring 721, including foreign nationals. This shows the utter perversity and hypocrisy of keeping Cuba on a U.S. list of State sponsors of terrorism, as Cuba itself has, over the years, constantly been the target of such acts of terrorism.
In this regard, October 6 will mark the solemn 47th anniversary of the mid-flight terrorist explosion of Cubana Airline's flight 455 over the Caribbean Sea, killing 73 people, including 24 teenage Cuban athletes, members of Cuba's national fencing team. At that time, the two main masterminds of the attack were taken under the U.S. government's wing and were never held accountable for their crimes.
In the same vein, the ongoing campaign of disinformation and slanders today against Cuba is egging on such criminal, anti-Cuban and anti-people elements, as they feel they have the go-ahead to say and do anything, no matter how vile or dangerous, empowered by that very same sense of impunity.
Thus, the importance of going all to out see to it that Canada and Quebec do not become a base for such elements to continue unabated, inciting the worse kind of hatred and threats against the Cuban people but also against all those -- and we are many -- who love and support Cuba. It must not pass!
Stop Inciting Terrorist Attacks Against Cuba!
Remove Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism!
End the Blockade Now!
Punish the Culprits of the Current Attack on Cuba's Washington
Embassy!
(September 26, 2023)
This article was published in
Volume 53 Number 10 - October, 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/MS53107.HTM
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