By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 6, 2023
Kim Phuc, “the napalm girl”, bears on her skin the mark of the Yankee genocide in Vietnam/ Sudestada
The use of terror and indiscriminate violence against civilians by military forces is not a novel resource; unfortunately, examples abound in the world.
In the arsenal of aggressions against Cuba, the U.S. government has put into practice a hundred variables ranging from sabotage of civilian airplanes to biological warfare and economic blockade.
Meanwhile, Havana exhibits an impeccable resume of international collaboration in the fight against terrorism, accompanied by the prestige provided by the exercise of a militant solidarity recognized by most nations.
Even so, the government that shows before the world the largest inventory of violent actions in history accuses Cuba of sponsoring this scourge.
In a brief review of history, there is too much evidence to appreciate who really makes indiscriminate terror a systematic way of acting against those they consider their adversaries.
On March 24, 1965, for example, U.S. Air Force skyriders launched an attack with white phosphorus bombs against defenseless populations in North Vietnam, which were turned into a veritable inferno.
On June 8, 1972, the U.S. Army bombed the Vietnamese population of Trang Bang with napalm. A Dantesque image of that day became emblematic of the war: little Kim Phuc (the napalm girl), removing the remains of her burning clothes.
White phosphorus, considered a chemical weapon, was also used against the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the “takeover” of the city in 2004 by the US army. During the attack, US forces also used a weapon known as Mark-77, which caused an inferno of chemical fire over the city and melted men, women and children to death.
Depleted uranium munitions were also used and the radioactivity caused by the use of this weapon caused high rates of cancer in the population, and the birth of babies with congenital malformations.
Dozens of Syrian civilians were killed in June 2017 in the city of Al-Raqa, as a result of white phosphorus raids conducted by the US-led coalition, even though the use of napalm and similar agents against civilians and against military forces in the vicinity of civilians was banned by the United Nations in 1980.
With such terrible elements, it is deplorable the manipulative sense in which the U.S. uses the prefabricated ruse of sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of coercion and encirclement, in order to justify aggression against its adversaries.
In the double standards of imperialism there is an enormous stumbling block that prevents humanity from achieving peace and justice from prevailing.
Source: Cuba en Resumen