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An act that deserves the strongest condemnation
2000
A six year old boy goes with his mother on a BWI flight to New York…the plane crashes and he survives clinging to his life jacket…mom dies…a US coast guard boat picks him up in open waters…
What you think will happen to that little trini boy next or boy from anywhere for that matter?
Deported home immediately.
Well not so if you are a Cuban 6 year old and your name is Elian.
To return you to your surviving parent would be an act that is required by human compassion, and as it stands, by international law.
As a minor, you should be returned to the care of your parent. You are not responsible for yourself. To hold you in the country to which you were taken, even following your rescue, would amount to abduction, an act contrary to international law.
From a strictly legal standpoint, it would be a criminal act.
In the eyes of any decent, caring human being, it would also be deserving of the greatest condemnation.
But no one in the world, in terms of those who wield the power of officialdom or the media, condemns the US government for the abduction of this six year old boy and holding him in their country against the wishes of his father and grandparents at home.
After all this is the same US that in the name of humanitarian concerns recently bombed Yugoslavia and Iraq. Surely, it seems that these goody-two-shoes could not be guilty of so heinous a crime as the abduction of a little boy.
Well, they are!
The references to the international law applicable to such a situation and existing protocols between the US and Cuban governments were circulated to all Foreign Ministers by their Cuban counterpart more than five weeks ago.
Yet we have not heard a word from our own Maharaja or any of the others who are wooing Cuba for CARICOM. How could those who “invited” US invasion of Grenada muster the courage to condemn the US for its callous treatment of a little boy? It is perhaps asking too much of such ‘caring’ leaders.
HOMEPAGE
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