MIAMI, United States. – The independent journalist and former political prisoner Rolando Cartaya spoke this Thursday with CubaNet about the database of violent repressors created and updated by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FDHC).
“This project emerged in mid-2017 and started slowly. Only the names of the repressors who could be identified were located, but already in March of last year it went from being a website to be an interactive database”, explained Cartaya. “In this interactive database, people can enter and file their complaint,” she explained.
“Of course, it should not be an anonymous person who denounces. He must use his name. Although we are not going to publish the name of the person who denounced, we do have to be sure that this person is responsible for the complaint he is making, ”he explained.
Cartaya also revealed that “the dynamics of the database changed radically after the 11J”.
“If each month we had a limited number of repressors that we could identify, whose data we could search, after 9/11 Cubans were much more willing to report these cases,” he said.
On the way in which these repressors would face Justice, Cartaya specified that “there are several ways in which they can pay for the debt they have.”
“Someday they will have to answer to the Justice and it will be useless to say that they were obeying orders, because that was shown in the Nuremberg trials to be an invalid argument.”
“They can pay with prison sanctions or even deportation,” specified the former Cuban political prisoner.
Cartaya also referred to the cases of the island’s repressors who are arriving in the United States, in the midst of the current migratory wave. “This is a concern,” she said. “Almost every week we have a complaint from a person who was repressor in Cuba and who is now here in the United States.”
The database of violent Cuban repressors was created in 2017 with the objective of identifying, investigating, and exposing people who have committed acts of repression on the Island. It also seeks to subject them to “public shame at the national and international level,” as well as keeping a file of the subjects who “They will have to face Justice some day.”
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