Critics complain that Payá is too conciliatory towards the dictatorship, too willing to negotiate with the current system, instead of working to destroy it. But the fact is, Payá is well familiar with the challenge before him. Too many of his friends and allies who joined with him in the Varela Project, are in the gulag for him to be naive about the dictatorship.
He is not, and he is not shy about denouncing the regime.
And as this statement reveals, he also will not give a free pass to the useful idiots in the international community, i.e. the United Nations, who only enable and strengthen the tyranny in Havana.
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Francisco De Armas
International Representative, Christian Liberation Movement
(787) 549-1805
www.oswaldopaya.org
THE UNITED NATIONS PRAISES THE GOVERNMENT AND PUNISHES THE CUBAN PEOPLE
At times acts of torture are discussed in terms of the damage they cause to an individual’s physical and mental health when the torturers want to obtain information by means of intimidation.
I do not want to speak about concepts but rather about real people and about those prisoners, of which there are too many to mention by name, so as to make it known that they are all in cruel and inhumane conditions while serving unjust prison sentences.
Although tens of thousands of men and women, common and political prisoners alike, are subjected to cruel and degrading prison conditions in Cuba, some examples of the political prisoners include: Regis Iglesias, Tony Díaz, Pedro Pablo Álvarez, Nelson Aguiar, Pablo Pacheco, lawyer and former official Rolando Jiménez, Efrén Fernández, Luís Enrique Ferrer, Ricardo González, Doctor Alfredo Pulido, Antonio Villareal, Librado Linares, who is almost blind and has less than half of his stomach working, and Normando Hernández, among so many others who are very ill. (Editor's note: Read more about these prisoners by clicking on their names on the right rail.)
Unjust and cruel prison terms are consuming the health and lives of all of Cuba ’s political prisoners.
There really is no further information to be taken out of these individuals, who are imprisoned in Cuba for defending human rights, as they have already proclaimed their secret out in the streets, “We want freedom and rights for all Cubans.” The torturers do not have any information to look for, but what they do have is a lot of hate and frustration on the part of themselves and the government that orders them, which they lash out at those whose spirits they have been unable to break.
Moreover, in addition to the individual acts of torture, they have moved towards applying a “state of torture,” a method of systematic, sadistic punishment that leads to physical and mental damage, a deterioration of health, and suffering, as a permanent and regulated part of the process of destroying the individual.
But the injustices and abuses are not just against those who dare to raise their voice in support of the rights of individuals. The greatest injustice is against the entire nation, against each and every Cuban, by imposing on them a life of fear, lies, poverty, and all types of deprivations and inequality. A life marked by oppression in every minute and in every dimension of existence, except in the dimension of the soul that has faith, which can not be conquered.
Here it is necessary to pause, not for a marginal comment, but rather for a denunciation from the depths of our people, who have been betrayed and humiliated by the international community, buried by the lies of the tyrants and the complacency of the cowards who condone the oppression and violation of human rights in Cuba.
According to the declarations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba , they have received “an award” from the General Assembly of the United Nations. The Cuban government and its newspaper, Granma, rejoiced in what they call with good reason “a victory,” because by a vote of 168 in the affirmative and seven against, the United Nations finally gave up against the force of oppression, abandoned the Cuban people, and embarrassingly compromised the Human Rights Council, which will not defend individuals, as it remains paralyzed by cowardice, poisoned by lies, and hijacked by the tyrants of the world.
The Council has a proposal for a resolution that we presented it on the first honest and coherent act that the Human Rights Council would need to take: demand the release of those imprisoned in Cuba for peacefully defending, promoting and exercising their human rights.
But no country dares to present that resolution; no one wants to risk receiving the barrage of insults and threats that the oppressors in Cuba use to silence those who proclaim “freedom.” The non-aligned countries, previously aligned with the oppressive Soviets and Maoists, are now aligned against everything that stands for hope for rights, justice, reconciliation, truth and liberty in Cuba.
It seems that from the pits of darkness the shrieks rose in a chorus from the philosophers and champions of the frustrated tyrannies of all times yelling desperately: “hypocrites of the world unite.” And in this way the large horde arose, with people of all ranks, to sustain the antitruth that denies Cubans the rights to have rights.
In Cuba, not only are human rights violated but a state of no rights exists. In Cuba its leaders do not even recognize that these violations exist and do not demonstrate any will to overcome this situation of an absence of rights.
In Cuba , there are hundreds of peaceful political prisoners for only defending their human rights.
In Cuba , power and the law damage and rescind many rights.
The United Nations and its Human Rights Council have not helped one bit to foster reconciliation, peace or understanding among Cubans or the peaceful changes that all Cubans desire.
For decades, many have tried to stifle the Cuban people with a cloak of lies, proclaiming as freedom what is indeed slavery, justice what is in fact inequality and popular democracy what is instead a tyranny that is sustained through a culture of fear. They have institutionalized oppression. Falsehood has taken on the mask of truth in order leave Cubans without the possibility of protest, objections, or hope.
But we do have hope in God and in our determination to recapture all our rights.
The people of Cuba will accomplish peace and obtain their rights, they will achieve reconciliation. They will achieve these through the peaceful path of truth and justice. We Cubans will achieve our rights, liberty and peace by our own efforts, with the solidarity of those who want to peacefully support us or without it.
We will achieve it alone, in fact with most of the world against us, because all we need to keep in mind is that we Cubans are also children of God and that is why we have the right to exercise our rights.
The tough talk aside, Payá remains committed to reconcilation and peaceful transition to democracy. Go here to read about his latest effort.
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