Disrespect for the Dead

Disrespect for the Dead / Josue Rojas Marin, Cuban Law Association
Posted on November 11, 2013
Josue Rojas Marin

The brother of Juan Miguel Herrera Machado died some years ago, and on
exhuming him, he found that the remains of eleven of his loved ones had
disappeared from the family vault.

Given the horrendous knowledge he headed to the cemetery administration,
where through the manager he learned that the vault now had another
owner. He immediately went to the National Revolutionary Police (PNR)
and filed a complaint. Some days passed with no answer, so he went
again and found Prosecutor Leonardo Moreno Torres, of the township of
Nuevitas, Camaguey, who oversaw the unit, and again related to him the
events. Months passed without a reply.

Devoted to his purpose, he approached the Chief of Prosecution of the
township and who told him that by dealing with an atypical case he had
to wait for a special process, that he saw no crime in what he related.
He again waited some more months, until he sought the free service of
our Cuban Law Association and we took on his complaint.

In the medium term a criminal process was initiated against those
responsible and they were sarcastically sentenced to light penalties.
Today we confront a second phase in the case because the tribunal did
not rule on the location of the remains and the Prosecution which had
the constitutional duty to carry out the investigations seems to have no
interest in giving an objective answer to Juan Miguel in spite of his
constant demands.

Translated by mlk

8 November 2013

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