[NYTr] AIN: US Policy Against Cuba Equivalent to Genocide

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A Crime Called Genocide

By Nestor Núñez
AIN Special Service
October 23, 2007

Washington's economic aggression against Cuba, for almost five decades, 
which have been condemned for 15 straight years by the UN General 
Assembly, has an exact and precise synonym: Genocide.

The Cuban people can testify to the effects of the blockade which has 
lasted almost 50 years.  The Cuban people have been denied the purchase 
of food, industrial materials, means of transport, health technology 
and important medicines. At the same time, they have had to face 
terrorist actions, armed attacks, sabotage and even the deliberate 
introduction of epidemics aimed at cattle and agriculture causing the 
death of numerous citizens, including children. Over 3,000 Cubans have 
lost their lives in the last decades due to this war of attrition.

Meanwhile, according to conservative calculations, material damage on 
the island, due to the blockade, has reached 89 billion dollars and 
continues to grow.

International legislation is very clear in reference to that damage.  
The Geneva Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of 
Genocide approved by the UN in 1948, establishes as a crime against 
humanity the imposition of hunger and disease against a specific 
population aimed at domination. We should then ask:  What has 
Washington intended to do in the years of aggression, if not to 
overcome the Cuban people's resistance.

For its part, the 1909 London Naval Conference defined, as an act of 
economic war, the pretension of preventing through force and pressures 
of all kinds of for a country to accede to indispensable materials for 
its population. The White House has for the last 47 years ignored the 
established legal principles, right from the start of the last century, 
indicating that in order to materializing its interests, there exists 
no institutional limits and much less ethics.