(EFE).- A commission made up of jurists, parliamentarians and politicians from several countries affirmed this Thursday that the death of seven occupants of a boat that collided with a Cuban border guard ship may constitute a “crime against humanity” and asked the people Cuban evidence to denounce him.
The International Commission for Justice Cuba, created in order to bring to international justice those responsible for human rights violations in Cuba, echoed the complaints of survivors and relatives of the seven dead people.
In statements released by the Miami media, several people said in recent days that the border guard ship blocked the passage of the boat, where 23 people were traveling, that was going to take them to the United States and rammed it.
Diana Meizoso, who saw her two-year-old daughter die in the collision that occurred in Bahía Honda, told Radio Televisión Martí on Monday: “They rammed the boat and broke it in the middle.”
According to Meizoso, when the boat passed by the ship, “he (the border guard officer) said: ‘Now I’m going to split them in half,’ and then he rammed us and split it in half.”
The Cuban exile community in Miami described from the first moment what happened in Bahía Honda on September 29 as a “massacre” and announced an act of reparation for the victims and their families for this Saturday.
According to the commission, those responsible for these crimes “are not only the perpetrators, but the entire chain of command.”
The Cuba Justice Commission, headed by Mexican jurist René Bolio, said Thursday in a statement dated Miami that it had analyzed all available information on “the Bahia Honda massacre,” where “several innocent civilians were killed by officials of the Cuban dictatorship.” “.
“These crimes, due to their notorious cruelty, for being committed by the dictatorship against citizens, for having been committed by members of the system, for having used means owned by the dictatorship, and for various other elements, are considered crimes against humanity, according to to the Rome Statute,” he stresses.
According to the commission, those responsible for these crimes “are not only the perpetrators, but the entire chain of command” and “universal jurisdiction means that any established court can prosecute such crimes.”
The Commission asked the Cuban people and all the people who have “evidence, proofs and elements of information” to send them to [email protected].
They also request “all means of identification of the criminals, their identity, positions, hierarchy and current location.”
The purpose of the Cuba Justice Commission is to establish an international court to judge crimes against humanity committed in Cuba.
In July 2017, the then-called International Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity of Castroism held its first public hearing in Miami, in which victims and witnesses of human rights violations in Cuba from 1959 to the present day participated under the slogan ” Forbidden to forget.”
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