Reflections by comrade Fidel: The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Those who deal with these issues know that on September 11, 2001, our people showed solidarity the United States and gave the modest cooperation in the health field could offer the victims of brutal attack on the Twin Towers in New York. immediately also offered our country's airfields for U.S. aircraft that had no where to land, given the chaos in the early hours after that blow.
We know the historical position of the Cuban Revolution who was always opposed to actions that endanger civilian lives.
firm supporter of the armed struggle against the Batista tyranny, were, however, opposed on principle to any terrorist act that led to the death of innocent people. Such conduct, held over half a century, gives us the right to express a view on the sensitive issue.
in massive public ceremony held at the Ciudad Deportiva expressed that day the conviction that terrorism would never be solved by violence and war.
was indeed, for years, a friend of the United States military trained him, and adversary of the USSR and the socialism, but whatever were the acts attributed to Bin Laden, the killing of a human being disarmed and surrounded by family is an abhorrent deed. Apparently that is what made the government of the most powerful nation that ever existed.
The carefully prepared speech for Obama to announce the death of Bin Laden says: "... we know that the worst pictures are those that are invisible to the world. The empty seat at the table. Children were forced to grow up without their mother or father. Parents who will never again feel the embrace of a child. About 3 000 people were marched away from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts. "
This paragraph contains a really dramatic, but can not prevent honest people remember unjust wars unleashed by the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of children forced to grow without mother or father and the parents would never again feel the embrace of a child.
Millions of citizens marched away from their villages in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and other countries around the world.
In the minds of hundreds of millions of people have not been cleared nor the horrific images of human beings in Guantanamo, Cuba occupied, marching silently subjected for months or even years intolerable and maddening torture; are kidnapped and transported to secret prisons to the hypocritical complicity supposedly civilized societies.
Obama has no way to hide Osama was executed in front of their children and wives, now in the hands of the authorities in Pakistan, a Muslim country of nearly 200 million people, whose laws have been violated, their national dignity offended and outraged their religious traditions.
How now prevent women and children of the executed without trial law nor explain what happened, and images are transmitted to the world?
The January 28, 2002, the CBS journalist Dan Rather, broadcast by the television station on September 10, 2001, the day before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden was undergoing kidney dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital. I was not able to hide and protect themselves in deep caverns.
murder and sent to the depths of the sea shows fear and insecurity make it a much more dangerous.
's own U.S. public opinion after the initial euphoria will end up criticizing the methods, far from protecting citizens end up multiplying the feelings of hatred and revenge against them.
Fidel Castro Ruz May 4, 2011 8 and 34 pm
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