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80 percent of a country’s population has lived under genocide. The people of another nation have also suffered genocide, for 75 years, although since last October 7, the spiral of barbarism there has escalated horribly. These are Cuba and Palestine.
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Japan have also witnessed this breath of absurd death; Africa, plundered by colonialism, orphaned of its children sold as merchandise, has not stopped feeling that hell.
Today, when Palestine, in two months, has lost 17,000 human beings, 7,000 of them boys and girls; When Cuba is going through the hardships of the intensification of the longest economic blockade in history against a country, which reaches 62 calendars, the Government of the most powerful nation on the planet appears vetoing a Resolution in the UN Security Council, to favor of life.
The United States shamefully prevented the approval of a text proposed by the United Arab Emirates on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue, to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. He ignored the fact that almost a hundred (97) delegations, including Cuba, co-sponsored it. Of course, he was not interested in the fact that 13 members of that body had voted in favor, with the United Kingdom abstaining.
This makes him responsible for the fact that, in Gaza, as the president of Iran, Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, stated, a child is martyred every ten minutes; makes him responsible for the lives cut short by denying Cuba oxygen and lung ventilators, at the most critical point of COVID-19. On the American governments is the blood that the live match burned in Yugoslavia; the deaths of the deadly spring in Libya; those of Iraq, with lies as a weapon, that of the hundreds of thousands who flew in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or those that Napalm caused in torn skins, in Vietnam. Also those that mothers and grandmothers in Latin America still cry today, because a murderous Condor flew over that geography.
Genocide is not an invention of those who suffer it, it is a qualification of international law based on the Convention against that crime, of 1948, when referring to the punishable, criminal and illegal act of causing damage to human groups; and the similar act of generating conditions that endanger the existence of human groups.
But the US administrations do not respect the UN. His position in the Security Council is a mockery of its Secretary General, who stated that more than 130 of his colleagues have already been murdered in Gaza.