Cuba students stage mock trial for exiled anti-Castro militant, Luis Posada Carriles

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2007/05/070515_postrial.shtml
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Law students are acting as judges in the two-day 'trial' organised by the Communist Party's youth wing and other pro-government groups.

Witnesses include Cuban government investigators and students who studied the case at home and in Venezuela

"I consider him a danger to humanity," said Dager Aguilar, a law student who testified against Mr Posada based on evidence provided by the state.

Cuba hopes the proceedings will keep public pressure on the United States to act against Mr Posada.
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I lost a family friend that day. She was on her way to study medicine in Cuba. Others lost friends and family - innocent young people died in that act of terrorism.

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1. He is regarded as a terrorist by many

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Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is a Cuban-born Venezuelan advocate of armed action to overthrow communist governments in Latin America. His opponents consider him a terrorist and label him as such; however, his supporters point out that details of Posada's involvementis not documented well enough to label him such, and the people he allegedly attacked, although there seems to have been considerable collateral lethality to innocents, involved some opposing violent activists (North Korean agents, Cuban security forces, etc.).

A former CIA operative, Posada has been accused of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Western hemisphere, including involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner which killed seventy-three people<1><2><3> and is said to have admitted to his involvement in other terrorist plots including a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots, these bombings resulted in one fatality (details see below).<4><5><6> In addition, he was jailed under accusations related to an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000, although he was later pardoned by the Panamanian authorities.<7><8>

Posada, nicknamed Bambi,<9> is regarded as a hero by some Cuban exiles hostile to the government in Havana. According to Pepe Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation, "He's been fighting one of the worst tyrannies this continent has experienced," Posada, who has denied involvement in the Cubana 455 bombing, insisted his "only objective was to fight for Cuba's freedom".<10>
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