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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

AN ARCHIVE OF CUBA'S VICTIMS: THE CASTRO BROTHERS' LEGACY OF BLOOD AND TEARS

AN ARCHIVE OF CUBA'S VICTIMS: THE CASTRO BROTHERS' LEGACY OF BLOOD AND TEARS
2007-12-31. Cuba Archive, www.CubaArchive.org
Contact: Maria Werlau, Executive Director

December 30, 2007, Summit, New Jersey. In anticipation of the 49th
anniversary of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st, Cuba Archive, a
non-profit organization based in New Jersey, has unveiled an electronic
database of its documented victims. With cases encompassing all sides of
the political spectrum, the magnitude, gravity, and systematic nature of
the crimes of the Cuban Communist leadership leave no doubt of its long
and profound disregard for human life.

Cuba Archive launched today an online system with thousands of cases
records assembled over years of research. The comprehensive effort
documents cases irrespective of political or ideological attributes of
the victim or perpetrators. To date, over 9,000 records have been
entered into the electronic system, which grows as additional cases are
entered and research and outreach efforts expand.

Users who register will gain free access to the electronic archive,
containing cases spanning more than five decades. The state led by Fidel
and Raúl Castro emerges responsible for thousands of firing squad
executions and extrajudicial killings. The archive reports over one
thousand deaths in prisons, police stations, or State Security offices,
as well as dozens of civilians murdered while trying to escape by sea or
seeking asylum in foreign embassies and at the U.S. Naval Base at
Guantánamo. Pregnant women assassinated in political prisons and
religious leaders and minors executed by firing squad are part of the
tragic record. Nine extrajudicial killings and five deaths of prisoners
for lack of medical attention are recorded for 2007.

The database is accessed at the organization's website,

www.CubaArchive.org, which complements the archive with summary reports,
profiles of victims, and other relevant material in both English and
Spanish.

Cuba Archive seeks to focus the attention on the victims rather than the
numbers, which constantly change as the work progresses.

Through this work, Cuba Archive seeks to promote an understanding of the
large toll in human life of the political process known as "The Cuban
Revolution." It calls on world governments, international organizations,
and all people of goodwill to hold Cuba's leaders accountable for its
crimes and deny them the legitimacy reserved for civilized and
democratic governments. The toll of 49 years of dictatorship and terror
requires an unequivocal demand for the fundamental rights of Cuba's
citizens to life, liberty, and self-determination.


Contact
Maria Werlau
Executive Director
Tel. 973.701-0520
info@CubaArchive.org
www.CubaArchive.org

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=13381

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