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Moving message from Rosa Maria Paya on Human Rights Day

 

 

The Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has recorded and released a very moving message from Rosa Maria Paya, the young daughter of recently deceased opposition leader Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, for International Human Rights Day, celebrated this past 10th of December.  Listen to the message by clicking the following audio-link:

((My transcription of the audio))) 

 

“Today, December 10th 2012, Human Rights Day, I want to draw attention over the Cuban people, who currently suffer from not having those rights.

Today, Cubans cannot democratically elect their president.  Today, Cubans are discriminated in their own country based on politics, race, and biology.  Today, Cubans cannot freely enter and exit Cuba, and hundreds of families suffer while separated.

Today, Cubans suffer from not being able to associate or express themselves freely. Today, the forces of State Security oppress every person who dares to work for the changes that will bring freedom and progress to our country.

Today, independent journalist Calixto Ramon Martinez is on his 27th day of hunger strike.  Today, Yosvany Melchor has nearly been in prison for 3 years simply because his mother is a pro-democracy activist of the Christian Liberation Movement.  Today, in Cuba, the Spanish citizen Angel Carromero has been jailed for 141 days for a crime he did not commit. Today, it’s been 141 days since, after many death threats, the conditions in which my father died have not yet been cleared, nor has it been explained why Harold Cepero was left to die.

Today, we want to remind the Cuban government and the world that Cubans also have the right to have rights because we are human beings, and we will not rest until we have them.

Freedom and Life”

- Rosa María Paya