Statement by the Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Bombing of the Cubana Airplane off Barbados With shock and indignation, we have learned that the US Department of Justice has handed down seven charges against the notorious terrorist Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles, only for having lied to immigration authorities during his naturalization process in this country. To our astonishment, the legal charges do not mention him as being a dangerous and still active international terrorist who, even from the prison where he is held, does not tire of boasting about the pain and suffering he has caused in the hearts of numerous families all over the world. To accept this decision of the Department of Justice with indifference is to become accomplices of the lie, and to accept that important truths remain untold. It is an affront to the memory of the thousands of citizens who have lost their lives in terrorist attacks. To accept that the notorious international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles be judged only as a harmless liar, is tantamount to accepting the outlandish idea that our family members never died in the massacre that occurred with the sabotage of a Cubana de Aviacion plane in mid-flight. It is like telling tourists in New York to go and admire the beauty of the Twin Towers because these majestic buildings were never destroyed on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. We urge the government of the United States to honor the truth. We urge the government of the United States to make available to the relevant authorities the documents that they have in their possession, which reveal the terrorist nature of Luis Posada Carriles. We want the notorious terrorist to be judged for more than just the lies he has told. We demand that the unpunished murderer of our relatives appear before justice, and that he be tried also for the truths that he has openly confessed to the United States media. WE DEMAND JUSTICE! 17January, 2007 (Cubaminrex-Granma)
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