BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE FILES A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF FIDEL CASTRO  

Translated by Pedro Sánchez

Los Angeles, California – In declarations to a weekly newspaper, 20 de Mayo, and its director Abel Perez, via telephone from Miami, Florida, the past Friday 19 of October, Jose Basulto, President of “Hermanos al Rescate,” also known as Brothers to the Rescue, a no lucrative organization, founded by the private sector, the majority of them pilots, to lend aid to Cuban “rafters,” fleeing from the tyranny of Castro, made the following statement:

For over one year, from the times of Elian Gonzalez, I contacted JUDICIAL WATCH and asked for their help, among other things, to try to resolve the case of Brothers to the Rescue. We had to consider all the implications related to that situation, not only on Cuba’s participation, but also the roll of United States as well.

”Well, around three months ago, I contacted Larry Klayman, chairman of JUDICIAL WATCH, an organization dedicated to fight administrative corruption, and take to the proper authorities those who abuse their positions and duties, and carry abuses against humble people with no financial resources. Mr. Klayman and I carried a conversation looking for the possibility to file a legal complaint with the courts in Belgium, considering that the laws of that country would make it possible to judge Fidel Castro. Mr. Klayman found our idea to be a sensible one and we started working on the project, preparing the necessary documents.

”Finally, the past 4th of October, during a flash trip to Belgium, as we were there for less that one day, we filed with the proper authorities of that country a petition for criminal indictment against Fidel Castro Ruz, Raul Castro Ruz, General Ulises Rosales del Toro and General Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, because of the actions they have taken against the people of Cuba, or, crimes against humanity, those were the charges.

”Of course, we not only had the testimony of Brothers to the Rescue, but also of other people who suffered abuses, among them Mr. Eugenio Sosa Chabau, 85 years old, which was tortured in Cuba, including the application of electroshocks to his testicles and head in Mazorra Hospital. It was not necessary for Mr. Sosa Chabau to be present as a witness, considering his age and his well established reputation as former editor for La Marina Newspaper in Havana.

In attendance was Dr. Marcelino E. Feal, a medical doctor, who lost the vision of one eye as the consequence of a beating while he was a prisoner in Cuba. Also present was a psychiatrist, Dr. Rigoberto Rodriguez, who brought with him the school material that is actually being used in Cuba. Textbooks used by children in primary school, with the figures of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. Those books are used as indoctrination tools by the regime.

Those charges were filed before the Belgium courts in Brussels. The judge in charge of opening the case, will proceed to analyze all the evidence on file. The complete text of the petition for criminal indictment is in French and could be obtained from the Internet, if you visit the websites for JUDICIAL WATCH or CUBAINFOLINKS.

”Everything when well,” Basulto added. “I understand that on that same day Fidel Castro started running and signed a series of treaties in which he promised not to get involved in terrorist activities. I think we just put him to run,” emphasized Basulto.

”In conclusion,” Basulto went to say, “we are satisfied of the results from our trip to Brussels, where we were able to file a complaint in the courts of Belgium, complaint that will put Castro and its regime in a difficult situation, as they will not be able to travel to Europe and it will make it very difficult for them to reach any kind of treaty with the European countries, if they are ever found guilty of murder and terrorism. It is very important to state that the Office of International Aviation (ICAO) was also part of these accusations.

NOTE: Brothers to the Rescue was registered as a no lucrative organization on May 12, 1991, in the State of Florida, United States of America. For more that eight years their members have been patrolling the Florida Straight, in aid to those Cubans, which in homemade rafts are fleeing from the communist tyranny of Fidel Castro, which enslaves the people of Cuba for the last 42 years.

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