BY RICARDO ALARCON
[The following message was sent on April 5 by Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.]
In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli troops, under the command of Ariel Sharon, I am asking that, with the greatest urgency, make everything possible under your reach to put an immediate end to the aggression and to promote the effective solidarity with the Palestinian people.
It is a shame for humanity that already into the 21st century, genocides like this one are taking place, without anything happening. Not even the organisation created to prevent and stop such crimes, the United Nations, is capable of imposing its authority, trapped as it is under the control of the imperialist superpower, that utilises it only in benefit of its hegemonic interests.
They lack morals to talk about human rights and or democracy, those who contemplate without doing anything, the horror that is done against that people, who only hope to live in liberty in their own independent and sovereign state.
The end of the crimes and abuse must be demanded. The end of the persecution and death threats against Yasser Arafat must be demanded.
The immediate withdrawal of the occupying troops must be demanded.
The complicity of the US government that supports both politically and materially the Israeli aggressors must be clearly denounced.
The parliamentarians of the whole world should act energetically now.
From Green Left Weekly, April 24, 2002.
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