Cuba accused the United State at the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday of systematically abducting people under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
During the afternoon debate on the report condemning forced abductions, Cuban delegate Yuri Gala said that the incumbent US administration has resorted to arbitrary detentions and other cruel treatment.
We must not forget that the United States, and particularly its ill-famed School of the Americas, played a key role in training those responsible for mass and flagrant human rights violations, Gala added.
He noted that the United States imposed and sponsored military dictatorships in Latin America for decades, and that Washington s logistical support and assistance allowed increased coordination among regional intelligence services.
That contributed to improving the exchange of information and prisoners, as well as carrying out joint assassinations, part of the well-known Operation Condor, the Cuban diplomat said.
Unfortunately, people are still abducted and held in secret places, where they are tortured or murdered, Gala said, alluding to Washington’s secret flights and illegal prison camps all over the world.
Cuba grants special importance to the need to strengthen international efforts to fight forced and involuntary abductions by taking actions and measures to prevent those horrible violations anywhere in the world, Gala said.
He called on the Council s working group to continue to follow up on the issue, adding that the General Assembly s International Convention to protect abduction victims was a big step forward.
Gala stressed that Cuba reaffirms the importance that those responsible for such acts should not benefit from amnesty, prescription, caducity, pardon or any similar measure, as impunity prevents truth and justice from prevailing.
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