POPCRU MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR THE CUBAN FIVE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE CAMPAIGN
MARCH TO THE US EMBASSY ON THE 14TH OCTOBER 2011 AT PRETORIA
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, the largest Trade Union in the Criminal
Justice, affiliated to Congress of South Africa’s Trade Unions [COSATU], Public
Service International [PSI] and a member of the International Council of Police
Representatives Association [ICPRA], wishes to unequivocally state its total
support on the demand for the un-conditional release of the Cuban Five from the
yoke of oppression and trampling of their human rights by the US government.
It’s almost thirteen years since five men were wrongly accused and unjustly
convicted.
We have shared the sentiments by the former President of CUBA, Cde Fidel Castro
when he made a commentary on the 06th May 2011, after Osama Bin Laden was
killed that, ‘ this [killing] was a dramatic moment of truth of unjust wars
waged by US government, but we cannot prevent honest persons from remembering
the other unjust wars unleashed by the United States [also] in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the hundreds of thousands of children, who were forced to grow up
without their mothers and fathers and the parents, who would never know the
feeling of their child’s embrace. Millions of citizens were taken from their
villages in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and many other
countries of the world. Those are persons who were kidnapped, with exposure to
unbearable and excruciating tortures, and transferred to secret prisons with
the hypocritical connivance of supposedly civilized societies’.
Gerardo Hernández, René González, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero, and
Ramón Labañino - the Cuban Five have always made us to aspire to speak
eloquently against countries which undermine social justice and good
international neighbourhoodness.
And the US is no exception!
POPCRU joins the millions of workers of the world in particular and the working
class in general to add a voice on the call for the un-conditional release of
the Cuban Five.
We are aware that Rene’ Gonza’lez, one of the five men was released with
conditions which trapped him to be located at Florida for three years of his
parole, even though it is public knowledge that the condition is unlettered as
he has no family around the area, and therefore we are calling for the re-think
of such unpalatable insensitivity by US Authorities.
* We reiterate our unequalled support for Friends of CUBA [FOCUS] and
other progressive forces calling for the mobilization of the South African
society in particular and other forces within the continent and beyond to join
in the campaign, with regular demonstrations until our call is met,
* We reiterate our commitment to demonstrate infinitely against the
double-standards played by US government in the war of terror against the CUBAN
government, and
* We reiterate our commitment to fight side by side with FOCUS on the
demand for the end of the five decades of economic, commercial and financial
blockade imposed to CUBA by the US government.
We wish to embrace the consistent messages such as the one from US Former
President, Ronald Reagan which says, "But the Presidents, now and before -the
current and former [Obama and Bush], have known that my own opinion, is that
the original trial of the Cuban Five was very doubtful, norms were violated,
and also some of the restraints on their visitations have been overly
restrictive”.
POPCRU calls on all South Africans to continue to support the CUBAN FIVE
Un-conditional release until this call is met by the US Authorities.
The continued ill-treatment of the CUBAN FIVE will multiply the feelings of
hatred and revenge against the US government…And enough is enough!
Down with International terrorism down!
Down with International Unilateralism down!
Down with International totalitarianism down!
Forward with the unconditional release of the CUBAN FIVE!
Issued by:
POPCRU National Office
01 Marie Road
Auckland Park
2006
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