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Cuba’s Assistance to the Namibian People Remembered on Cassinga Day.

CUBA, May 5, 2011.- San Nujoma, Namibia’s founding father and historic leader of the African nation recalled the support of the Cuban people during the ceremony for the 33rd anniversary of the Cassinga Massacre perpetrated by the South African racist army against a refugee camp in southern Angola.

We receive the assistance of many friends across the globe, especially the revolutionary people from Cuba under the leadership of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, Nujoma said during the event held in Windhoek, the capital, according to special reporters of the National News Systems.

In this way, the leader recalled all the solidarity received by the now governing party South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), that day when at eight in the morning, apartheid regime planes bombed a refugee camp killing hundreds of children, women and elderly people, as a massacre survivor Helena Hashemda recalled.

The Namibians under the SWAPO, with the support of the Cuban internationalist troops, defeated the racist regime that illegally occupied South East Africa, a territory under UN trusteeship at the time.

The central ceremony took place in the UN square in the Katutura popular neighbourhood north of the capital.

Nujoma started the celebrations with the laying of a floral wreath to those who had lost their lives fighting for Namibia’s independence. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

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