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Guyana to remember Cubana victims

Oct 02, 2009 News

– flowers to be laid at monument in Barbados

The Government and people of Guyana will once again pay their respects to the 73 people who perished when the Cuban airliner on which they were travelling to Cuba after leaving Guyana in October 1976 was blown out of the sky by bombs planted by anti-Castro terrorists.
The majority of those who died were Cuban nationals, 57, while eleven Guyanese and five nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were also killed.
Flowers will be laid at the “Cubana Monument” in Barbados on Sunday morning by the Guyanese Honorary Consul in the island, Norman Faria. He will be joined by the Venezuelan and Cuban Ambassadors and others in the commemorative activity held under the auspices of the Cuban Embassy and the Guyana Consulate.
The Monument, erected by the Barbados Government in the 1990s, is situated on the island’s west coast approximately at the nearest shore point to the location where the plane plunged into the ocean.
“It is imperative for all democratic-minded people who believe in peace and justice to always remember the tragic and horrific act of these terrorists. The government and people of Guyana will always remember those who died, Guyanese as well as Cubans and the Koreans, “Faria said.
“We resolutely condemn all forms of terrorism which tries to undermine the achievements and progress of the peoples and we join with the Cuban and Venezuelan governments in calling for the immediate bringing to trial of the terrorist mastermind and fugitive from justice Luis Posadas Carriles.
While such a monstrous act will always cause great emotional pain and sorrow , we in Guyana join with others pledging to continue to build even more democratic and prosperous societies to show that such terrorist evil shall never succeed. “
After the October 6, 1976 crime, three Venezuelans and the Cuban-born naturalized Venezuelan Carriles were arrested and put on trial in Venezuela.
However, after being held for eight years and before he was finally sentenced, Carriles fled to the United States.

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