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Cuba Our Terrorist Neighbor to the South


100 posted on 04/06/2002 9:38:06 AM PST by backhoe
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Deaths attributed to Castro:

Here are some figures:

executed      18,000
extrajudicial assassinations        1,000
disappeared          250
died in prison for lack of medical attention            50
murdered in prison by guards (brutality)          500
extrajudicial assassinations of women, for different causes          150
Sub-total for extrajudicial killings      20,400
political prisoners who reportedly committed suicide in prison          200
died at sea attempting to flee "balseros" - estimate based on Coast Guard estimates of casualties      83,000
Cubans killed in "internationalist-solidarity" wars in Africa      10,000
Total    113,600


The above numbers don't include deaths caused by Batista regime, documented by Armando Lago at 2,500, of which 2,200 are deaths in military battles in the Sierra Maestra, mostly soldiers, and 300 were murdered by Batista security forces.

To put these numbers into some context, note that all deaths reported during the entire Pinochet regime in Chile totaled no more than 3,100, a figure which includes the disappeared.

Nota Bene: Following the journalistic code of reporting by the Voice of America (VOA), two independent sources are used to confirm report of incident.

Photo credit: Juan Clark, Ph.D. Cuba: Exodus, Living Conditions and Human Rights.

 

Lest we forget, this list is a few years old, you can increase it by the number of deaths in the Straits (The Killing Waters), by the number of deaths in the Tugboat 13 de Marzo Massacre, and the murdered Brothers to the Rescue pilots.

Luis

6 Posted on 07/31/2001 14:42:21 PDT by Luis Gonzalez --------------------------------------------

103 posted on 04/17/2002 10:13:00 AM PDT by backhoe
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