Actualité - US Behavior Condemned in Cuba
Franc-Parler reproduit une dépêche de Prensa Latina News Agency rapportant les propos de l'écrivain vénézuelien Fernando Baez qui condamne les attaques contre le peuple irakien et les peuples du monde. Des tortures de Guantanamo à la destruction de pièces archéologiques et historiques en Irak, l'impérialisme américain tente de détruire la culture et la glorieuse histoire de peuples. Hier, les nazis brûlaient les livres pour détruire la culture ; aujourd'hui, les impérialistes bombardent les musées et les sites historiques.
Havana, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) - The imprisonment of two Iraqi librarians, the burning of the Koran in the presence of religious detainees and tortures at the Guantanamo naval facility illegally occupied by the US in Cuba were condemned in Havana Friday.
Venezuelan investigator and writer Fernando Baez, author of the History of the Old Library of Alexandria, made a proposal addressed "to the UN and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, "which have kept an accomplice silence on the issue."
In a news conference in Havana, where Baez launched his book "The Cultural Destruction of Iraq," he described the US democracy project in Guantanamo as "closed."
"Hundreds of people are imprisoned there without standing trial or being pressed charges. They are subject to tortures and their cultural symbols such as the Koran are ridiculed," he said.
He affirmed that UNESCO, the US Archaeology Association and even Culture Advisor Martin Sullivan had warned the Bush government how the destruction and aggression in Iraq would damage major centers of world civilization there.
However, Bush did not listen and his forces burnt books and bombed museums, libraries, research centers and schools in major cities including Baghdad, Mosul and Basra, he noted.
Baez said the world must remember Cuban National Hero Jose Marti´s phrase "being an educated person is the only way to be free."
He referred to his arrival in Iraq as a member of an international commission to assess the damage caused to the Iraqi heritage and to US Administrator Paul Bremer´s attempts to monitor and control his tasks.
Talking about damage caused to these centers, he highlighted the issue of plundering, in particular the robbery of 30 valuable works and the thousands of objects from the Archaeology Museum in Baghdad and the National Library, which was fully burnt.
US and European collectors now possess those objects, he contended.
Fernando Baez stated that in plundering Iraq, invasion-occupation forces have killed more than one thousand intellectuals, artists, teachers, doctors and engineers.
(Prensa Latina News Agency)
Havana, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) - The imprisonment of two Iraqi librarians, the burning of the Koran in the presence of religious detainees and tortures at the Guantanamo naval facility illegally occupied by the US in Cuba were condemned in Havana Friday.
Venezuelan investigator and writer Fernando Baez, author of the History of the Old Library of Alexandria, made a proposal addressed "to the UN and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, "which have kept an accomplice silence on the issue."
In a news conference in Havana, where Baez launched his book "The Cultural Destruction of Iraq," he described the US democracy project in Guantanamo as "closed."
"Hundreds of people are imprisoned there without standing trial or being pressed charges. They are subject to tortures and their cultural symbols such as the Koran are ridiculed," he said.
He affirmed that UNESCO, the US Archaeology Association and even Culture Advisor Martin Sullivan had warned the Bush government how the destruction and aggression in Iraq would damage major centers of world civilization there.
However, Bush did not listen and his forces burnt books and bombed museums, libraries, research centers and schools in major cities including Baghdad, Mosul and Basra, he noted.
Baez said the world must remember Cuban National Hero Jose Marti´s phrase "being an educated person is the only way to be free."
He referred to his arrival in Iraq as a member of an international commission to assess the damage caused to the Iraqi heritage and to US Administrator Paul Bremer´s attempts to monitor and control his tasks.
Talking about damage caused to these centers, he highlighted the issue of plundering, in particular the robbery of 30 valuable works and the thousands of objects from the Archaeology Museum in Baghdad and the National Library, which was fully burnt.
US and European collectors now possess those objects, he contended.
Fernando Baez stated that in plundering Iraq, invasion-occupation forces have killed more than one thousand intellectuals, artists, teachers, doctors and engineers.
(Prensa Latina News Agency)
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