Political Police Kidnappers Identified

Political Police Kidnappers Identified / Leon Padrone
Posted on September 12, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba , September, www.cubanet.org – Recently , blogger and
freelance journalist Joisy García Martínez wrote via the phone to his
account on Twitter, @criolloliberal: "Raul Castro ratifies the
kidnappings in Cuba, but not the [UN Human Rights] Covenants." The fact
was related to the severe repression by the political police on about 30
human rights activists who, on the first Sunday in September were to
provide support to the Ladies in White, during Mass and their
traditional march down 5th Avenue in the Cuban capital.

Joisy own statements as well as those of Rubén Carthy, independent
journalist and former prisoner of the Group of 75, and Eduardo Diaz
Fleites, witness to the event, said that on that day, at the end of the
press conference with the Ladies in White, they and six other activists
were arrested by the political police, when they were at the bus stop on
3rd and 20th in the Miramar neighborhood. Suddenly, they were surrounded
by a large group of soldiers, most in plain clothes and supported by a
caravan of several Lada cars, Suzuki motorcycles, two police cars and an
8-seat bus, intended as a cell during the kidnapping.

Several sources said that, subsequently, the entire repressive squadron
under the command of the officer known as Camilo, followed the P1 bus
route, on which several Ladies in White and other dissidents were
traveling. All of them were arrested when they got off at different
stops. The Ladies in White and other passengers who were also on the bus
witnessed how agents violently forced the opponents into the vehicles.

Throughout the journey, which had its destination in a confusing area
beyond Cotorro, far from the center of Havana, the cruelty of the Castro
agents was clearly made evident. One of the soldiers who participated in
the operation slapped the face of the young man Adrián Chirino García, a
member of the Commission for Assistance to Political Prisoners and
Families ( CAPPF ), who desperately asking them to open the window, as
he couldn't get any air. This officer was identified by his badge: No.
2228. The license plate of the Lada car was that driven by officer
Camilo, HH122. In addition, the number of one patrol car was 529, and
the badge of the driver was 00884.

This is not an isolated event, and it marks another black page in the
history of the regime in terms of human rights. And it further confirms
that during the presidency of Raul Castro he has maintained the method
of kidnappings which, although not new the island — in the past many
members of the democratic opposition have experienced it — is being
reactivated as one of the main forms of repression in the present.

Leonpadron10@gmail.com

From Cubanet

12 September 2013

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