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Castro's crackdown: while U.S. forces battled Saddam's regime, a brave band of brothers stood against the terror and oppression of a brutal tyrant 90 miles from our shore. (Cuba).
The fall of Saddam Hussein and his East German-trained secret police apparatus was the one clearly good thing to come out of the war on Iraq. But while jubilant Iraqis celebrated the end of Saddam's tyranny half a world away, Fidel Castro was conducting a ruthless crackdown on internal dissent, untroubled by the possibility that his regime might go the way of Saddam's.
With U.S. and world attention focused on Iraq, Fidel Castro figured it was the opportune time to take action against his most nettlesome foes. On March 18th, Castro's secret police launched a series of sweeps across Cuba, arresting physicians, journalists, poets, authors, teachers, photographers, ...
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Human Rights Commission accepts Cuba's invitation to observe its...the Commission to investigate human rights in Cuba. Cuba had then submitted a...achieved: an investigation of human rights in Cuba", he said. Use of mercenaries...
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...been discredited by the serial human-rights violators that stand among its 53 members. Cuba's appointment does reflect poorly...Peru - voted last year to condemn Cuba for its human-rights abuses. Cuba is certainly in noteworthy company...
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- Newspaper article from: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs December 13, 2007 700+ words
...the UN Bill of Human Rights. They are legally...protocols, committing Cuba to a number of...to go out." Cuba has already begun to ease into the human rights inspection process...other news that Cuba considers a human rights success, a United...
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- News wire article from: United Press International April 18, 2003 700+ words
...United Nations human rights commission turned the heat on Cuba over its poor...reporters. Cuba says it would...country's human rights situation...all those in Cuba, and elsewhere...Americas -- for human rights." Moley said...
Source: HighBeam Research, Castro's crackdown: while U.S. forces battled Saddam's regime, a...