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Havana, Jun 2 (Prensa Latina) The history of terrorism in Cuba and Operation Condor of the Latin American military dictatorships in the 70s is an entire period moulded under an ideology we must denounce so that such conditions and ideas do not prosper again, assured President Fidel Castro.
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Along with outstanding social personalities, academicians, intellectuals, artists and political leaders from 67 countries, Fidel Castro opened on Thursday the International Conference against Terrorism, for Truth and Justice, in Havana. Fidel called for the destruction of ideas connected to neofascism, and to eliminate both the method and its fruits: 'the protagonists born from such system.' He called for an end to the imposition of lies and injustices on the world.
He added that shedding light on these secrets may help build history, maybe the most dramatic of the past century. There were particular circumstantial elements in the birth of fascism, but there are new elements emerging in the globalized world, like a global empire.
We believe in ideas and that man is able to overcome such conditions, assured the Cuban leader.
The opening session also denounced the US-sponsored terrorism that turned Cuba and other countries into their favorite targets.
Among the guest are Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Association, Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello and singer Beth Carvalho, film directors Jorge Sanjines (Bolivia) and Walter Salles (Brazil).
Nicaraguan ex President and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, and Salvadoran Schafik Handal, head of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), represent -respectively- two Central American peoples who endured the dirtiest war ever unleashed from Washington.
Journalists Miguel Bonasso and Stela Calloni (Argentina) and Hernan Calvo Ospina (Colombia) exposed the crimes perpetrated by South American military dictatorships in collaboration with the White House and terrorists of Cuban origin like Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.
Both are accused of the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban civilian plane with 73 people aboard on October 6, 1976, a date that is for Cubans as the 9/11 2001 is for the US people, said Carlos Alberto Cremata, son of a crew member of the fatal flight.
Cremata announced the foundation of the Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Sabotage of the Plane in Barbados, who have pledged an endless fight for justice. The first task for the Committee will consist of locating the victims of attacks perpetrated in the US.
Alpidio Alonso, coordinator of the Cuban Chapter in the Network of Defense of Humanity, issued a call to set up a world anti-terrorist front to fight terrorist methods and denounce Operation Condor and the Cuban airliner bombing as a moral duty to the victims.
'It is an alternative to save historic memories. Let's not allow for impunity', he said, concluding by calling for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela.
The anti-terrorist session is to close Saturday with a concert honoring Chilean singer and composer V¡ctor Jara, murdered by the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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