CLEMENT PAYNE MOVEMENT
Crumpton Street, Bridgetown, Barbados.
PRESIDENT: David Comissiong GENERAL SECRETARY: Robert ‘Bobby’ Clarke
Tel.No.:437-8216 Tel. No.: 424-0064
Fax No.: 417-0960
Bridgetown, Barbados
October 6th, 2010
Mr. Barack Obama
President
United States of America,
Caribbean brothers and sisters living in the US territory,
On October 6th, 1976, 34 years ago, a Miami group of terrorists placed a bomb on Cubana flight number 455. While the said aircraft was flying near Barbados’ coast it exploded. 73 innocent people died including 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese, and 5 North Koreans. Among the dead were all 24 members of the 1975 National Cuban Fencing team. To this date, the crime instigators and intellectual authors are free under the protection of the United States Government.
Terrorist attacks in the Caribbean, particularly against Cuba, have not ceased during all these years. Cubans have done everything possible to avoid them, even though the United States Government had all the information about the Cuban efforts. The United States Government decided to prosecute, condemn and sentence the fighters against terrorism in Miami instead of arresting the authors of the terrorist acts against our peoples. This injustice is a consequence of the blackmail the economic power groups and lobbyists in the South of Florida exercise against the American Administration.
Consequently, five anti-terrorists Cuban fighters have been unjustly imprisoned in the United States for 12 years. There is absolutely no evidence that they received a fair trial. They were eventually condemned as a result of an unfair trial. They are prisoners because they were judged in Miami, where the decisive influence of law and order is in the same hands of those who protect the authors of the crime of Barbados in 1976: Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.
We demand the criminal terrorists to be prosecuted!
We demand the immediate liberation of the five anti-terrorists Cuban fighters: Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero!
End injustice. Freedom now!
The below signatories concur with these demands:
- George Lamming, Author Emeritus and political thinker, Barbados
- Bobby Clarke, Attorney -at-law, Pan-Africanist, Clement Payne Movement, Barbados
- David Comissiong, Attorney-at-law, Pan-Africanist, Clement Payne Movement, Barbados
- Woodville Marshall, Professor University of the West Indies, Barbados
- Harold Hoyte, Editor Emeritus Nation Newspaper, Barbados
- Trevor Prescod, former Member of Parliament, Barbados
- Andrew Pilgrim, Attorney-at-law and Actor, Barbados
- Bertha Pilgrim, Film-director, Barbados
- Adisa "Aja" Andwele, National Cultural Foundation, Barbados
- Anthony "Gabby" Carter, Claypso King of Barbados
- Michael Sealy, Composer, Barbados
- Marisa Lindsey, Jazz singer, Barbados
- David Denny, President of the Friendship Association with Cuba and the July 26th Movement of Barbados
- Elma Beatriz Rosado, Presidenta Fundación Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rico
- Francisco Torres, Presidente del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico
- Milagros Rivera, Presidenta de la Brigada de Solidaridad “Juan Rius Rivera” de Puerto Rico
- Hector L. Pesquera Sevillano, Julio Muriente Pérez y Jose Rivera Santana Copresidentes del Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano de Puerto Rico
- Clyde Callendar, President of Trinidad and Tobago Friends of Cuba
- Rafael Cancel Miranda, ex prisionero político, Puerto Rico
- Nicole Cage Florentiny, poeta, profesora, periodista y promotora cultural, Martinica
- Keith Ellis, escritor, Jamaica/Canadá
- Camille Chalmers, Profesor UEH y Director Ejecutivo de la Plataforma Haitiana para el Desarrollo Alternativo (PAPDA), miembro del Consejo Internacional del Foro Social Mundial.
- Senator David Abdulah, Member of the Regional Executive Committee of the Assembly of Caribbean People, Trinidad and Tobago
- Iris Gilliad, Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA), Suriname
- Luisa “Chiqui” Vicioso, poeta, dramaturga y ensayista, Republica Dominicana
We invite you to add your signature, sending a message to: bobbyclarke@live.com / edhcuba@cubarte.cult.cu and ospaaalpolitico@enet.cu
Twitters: twitter.com/EDHXloscinco and twitter.com/cuba_fsm
Bridgetown, Barbados
6 de octubre de 2010
Sr. Barack Obama
Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América,
Hermanos y hermanas del Caribe que residen en territorio norteamericano:
El 6 de octubre de 1976, hace 34 años, un grupo de terroristas de Miami colocó una bomba en la aeronave de Cubana, vuelo número 455. Dicha aeronave explotó mientras se encontraba sobrevolando las costas de Barbados. 73 personas inocentes murieron, incluidos 57 cubanos, 11 guyaneses y 5 norcoreanos. Entre los muertos se encontraban los 24 miembros del equipo nacional de esgrima cubano de 1975. Hasta la fecha, los instigadores y autores intelectuales permanecen en libertad al amparo del gobierno de los Estados Unidos.
Los ataques terroristas en el Caribe, y en particular contra Cuba, no han cesado durante todos estos años. Los cubanos han hecho todo lo posible por impedirlos. Sin embargo, a pesar de que el gobierno de los Estados Unidos tenía toda la información sobre los esfuerzos cubanos, en lugar de arrestar a los autores de los actos terroristas contra nuestros pueblos, optó por procesar, enjuiciar y condenar a los luchadores contra el terrorismo en Miami. Esta injusticia es consecuencia del chantaje que ejercen contra la administración norteamericana los sectores económicos de poder en el sur de la Florida.
En consecuencia, cinco luchadores antiterroristas de origen cubano, permanecen encarcelados injustamente hace 12 años en cárceles norteamericanas. No existe absolutamente ninguna evidencia que un juicio justo pudiera emplear para condenarlos. Están presos solamente porque fueron juzgados en Miami, allí donde la influencia decisiva en la política y en la ley la tienen los mismos que apañan a los autores del crimen de Barbados de 1976: Luis Posada Carriles y Orlando Bosch.
¡Exigimos que los criminales terroristas sean procesados!
¡Demandamos la liberación inmediata de los cinco luchadores cubanos antiterroristas: Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González y Antonio Guerrero!
¡Fin a la injusticia, libertad ahora!
We invite you to add your signature, sending a message to: bobbyclarke@live.com / edhcuba@cubarte.cult.cu and ospaaalpolitico@enet.cu
Twitters: twitter.com/EDHXloscinco and twitter.com/cuba_fsm
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