Oct. 18 (DP.net).─ Asia Noreen Bibi es una más de los incontables casos de persecución religiosa contra Cristianos en muchas partes del mundo. Lo que hace sobresalir este caso sobre muchos otros es que sea la justicia de un país la que condene a muerte a uno de sus ciudadanos por motivos religiosos.
En este caso se trata del Pakistán, donde Asia Bibi ha sido condenada a muerte acusada de blasfemia. Las campañas internacionales han logrado generar presión suficiente para que los tribunales de ese país aplacen la ejecución, acepten procedimientos de apelación y se mantenga así la esperanza de un justo "perdón" a la alegada ofensa. Por eso es tan necesario movilizar a la opinión pública mundial para impedir tan espantosa injusticia y para que este caso no se convierta en un terrible antecedente que abra de par en par las puertas de una cruel persecución religiosa.
Asia Bibi es una joven cristiana, madre de cinco hijos, en un país musulmán donde no sólo las autoridades sino vecinos y compañeros de trabajo suelen acosar y discriminar a los Cristianos. Lo que hace más repugnante este caso es que Pakistán es considerado aliado de las democracias y recibe centenares de millones de dólares en "ayuda" procedente de Estados Unidos, Europa, Australia, etc. Esta cruel condena significa que los contribuyentes democráticos están subsidiando la persecución religiosa en ese país.
Today, even the world’s largest democracies have embraced the idea that unconditional “engagement” with Cuba’s “reformist” military dictatorship will bring about economic and political reform. As a result, they have afforded it widespread impunity, legitimacy, and support. Yet, Raúl has been supreme leader of Cuba for over a decade and Cuba’s “capitalist” re-insertion into world markets after the end of Soviet Communism began over a quarter century ago. The evidence to date shows no significant empowerment of Cuba’s citizens with economic, civil or political rights during Raúl Castro´s tenure as president. Instead, repression and persecution against human rights’ defenders and members of Cuba’s peaceful opposition movement and independent civil society has greatly intensified both in scope and viciousness. Internationally, Cuba’s alliances have strengthened with totalitarian/autocratic and rogue regimes.
RAÚL CASTRO´S TRACK RECORD OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Nothing in Raúl Castro’s history denotes a disposition to reform; rather, he has been directly responsible for unspeakable and systematic crimes against humanity over the course of the 57 year-old dictatorship —first as second-in-command and head of the Armed Forces until July 2006 and, subsequently, as “maximum” leader for the last ten years.
Raúl Castro’s killing career began early on. During the revolutionary struggle in the mountains, he ordered the execution of deserters and alleged informants. When the revolution took power January 1st 1959, with brother Fidel and Ché Guevara, he masterminded the wave of terror designed to reduce the population into submission. In charge of Oriente province, Raúl had hundreds of men executed simply for wearing the uniform of the Police or Constitutional Armed Forces. In Santiago de Cuba, he ordered 71 men shot by firing squad without trial. Among the victims was U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican heritage, Benito Cortés Maldonado, a policeman put to death on fabricated charges of raping a woman.
Video testimony of priest Jorge Bez Chabebe on the mass execution ordered by Raúl Castro in Santiago de Cuba on January 12 1959. https://youtu.be/MS60-myaU3g (9:03 mins.)
Russian fighters and bombers are implicated in the terror strategy
Damascus, Sept.13.─ On a wintry morning in February warplanes supporting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad launched a series of missiles that slammed into a field hospital in northern Syria. Medics raced towards the thick cloud of grey dust that mushroomed above the building, before clambering over breeze blocks and fallen trees to pull the wounded from the rubble.
About 40 minutes later, the jets—either Russian or Syrian, no one is sure—circled back and dropped another bomb on the medics as they worked. The air strikes killed 25 civilians, including eight medical workers, making it the single deadliest attack on medical personnel since the war in Syria began in 2011. Unsatisfied with the death toll, the jets tracked the ambulances carrying the wounded to another field hospital three miles north. They hit the hospital entrance with another missile and then, ten minutes later, dropped yet another bomb. “There’s no way on that day they didn’t know what they were doing,” says Ahmed Tarakji, president of the Syrian American Medical Society, which financed the second hospital hit that day.
