Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the terrorist attacks suffered by Cuba over six decades, on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers in the United States.
“Cuba, which has suffered terrorist attacks of various kinds for more than 60 years, resulting in more than 3,400 deaths and 2,099 injuries, today faces a genocidal plan to starve the people into submission,” the president wrote on the social network X, adding that these actions also constitute “state terrorism.”
Referring to the September 11th attacks, Díaz-Canel recalled the words of Fidel Castro, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, who considered that these events should serve to create the international fight against terrorism.
However, Fidel Castro asserted that “the international fight against terrorism is not resolved by eliminating one terrorist here and another there; killing here and there, using similar methods and sacrificing innocent lives,” the Cuban president stated.
According to Castro, this fight would be resolved by putting an end to state terrorism and other repulsive forms of killing, including genocide, “by faithfully following a policy of peace and respect for moral and legal norms that are inescapable.”
On September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City.
That day, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners; they crashed two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., while a fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania.
As a result, nearly three thousand people from some 80 nations lost their lives, in what is considered the largest extremist attack suffered by the United States in its history.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
