July 26: Cuba's Revolution, Morality, and Solidarity with Tamils
True solidarity activists have no choice. We must stand by any people under attack by aggressors wherever in the world.
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Jul-07-2013
(COPENHAGEN) - On this 60th year of celebration of the start of Cuba’s humanitarian revolution, I call upon the Cuban government, as well as all members of the ALBA alliance, to return to the moral principles expressed by Fidel and Che and do the right thing by the Tamil people. Call for an independent international investigation into the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government, and use your moral clout, your revolutionary record to demand an end to the genocide against this people.
Sixty years ago, on July 26, 1953, 160 Cuban rebels attacked the Moncada Barracks near Santiago de Cuba. Had the rebels been able to take the fort manned by 1,000 troops—a good possibility—it would have started a revolution that might well have defeated the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista within a short time.
