Message from Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas to the Plenary in the Tallin
Conference
MESSAGE TO THE PLENARY IN THE PRAGUE CONFERENCE
From Cuba, I thank everyone that has contributed so that this
conference of solidarity with Cuba can take place and especially to the
nation and authorities of Estonia. Thanks to our always friend Vaclav
Havel and to everyone that attend this conference.
I am one more voice among the many of the internal peaceful opposition,
some silenced in unjust prison. If it is of solidarity with the Cuban
people, then this conference should be in support to what the immense
majority of the Cubans want: peaceful changes toward the democracy, the
justice, the liberty and the reconciliation.
Already there is a process in motion to achieve these changes. A
process in which Cubans are the protagonists, as much the ones that live
inside as the ones that live out of the country, as a single nation.
If some affirm “the end justifies the means” and if there are some that
in the name of justice and to achieve power, supposedly to do good, kill
and practice terrorism, offend, lie and exclude the ones that are not
equals, those are not us, the ones that fight in the civic movement.
For us the freedom, the social justice and the rights for everybody are
our goal, but the peaceful road, is also a goal. Surpassing hatred and
fear, achieve reconciliation and that it be discovered that, still in
the diversity, we are all brothers, is also our goal and is in that way
liberation.
In Cuba a culture of fear reigns, there is an order of non-existence of
human rights, there is a rich minority that paralyzes the majority and
submits it to poverty, in name of the uneven equality, or the real
socialism. They have cultivated in many Cubans the feeling of
inferiority and despair. They affirm that life cannot be otherwise.
The fatalism of an eternal totalitarianism or tragic end has become a
threatening doctrine, summarized in the slogan of “socialism or death”.
Liberty and Life, this is the answer of the Christian Liberation
Movement, denying the fatalism of hatred, oppression and of death that
traps even the ones that preach it.
This imposed fatalism should not be confused with the spirit and the
will of the Cuban people. It is necessary to take an in depth look at
Cuba and you will discover the human complexity that our reality has.
In a certain sense a kidnapped nation, but there also exists in our
nation a diversity of interpretations of our recent history, diversity
of personal and family experiences, diversity of positions and political
commitments, forced or sincere. But we are sure that in the middle of
that diversity there is a consensus with the desire of peaceful changes.
We believe that the Varela Project and the National Dialogue are viable
and loyal instruments so that this consensus is expressed. Therefore we
continue these campaigns, while the Government utilizes all the
repressive resources to impede that Cubans know them and support them.
The transition that we want, cannot come via intervention, civil war or
the calamity and chaos. It will not also come by passive waiting, but
it already comes by the way of the civic and peaceful movement that
exists in Cuba. This should be supported in all its diversity of
authentic groups in their wealth of styles and peaceful projects.
The transition will not represent the clash between Cubans according to
their position and experience, but the meeting among all in conciliation
to construct democracy.
From this conference a movement of solidarity must be fomented in
governments, parliaments, non-governmental organizations, member of
religious orders and churches, artists and intellectuals of all the
genres, and citizens of all countries, to support the liberation of the
political prisoners and the peaceful changes in Cuba.
Amnesty First is the slogan that announces the priority. Nobody can
suppose a change, or positive steps of the Cuban government, while
political prisoners are not liberated.
Support the Referendum of the Varela Project and respect the
constitutional law to realize this petition. All the persons of good
will supported the Referendum in Chile. It is time to give the voice to
the Cuban people in a referendum.
The National Dialogue, under persecution and repression is already a
reality where Cubans inside and out of the island participated to
construct together the future. Support the dialogue between Cubans.
This would not be to condemn either Cuba, or the Cuban people, but to
aid them to be able to cross the path of peace towards their right
exercising its self-determination.
On behalf of the Movement Cristiano Liberación
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas
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