Cuba - Bring Castro to justice

Here's the real Castro, the darling of the Left and hero to the BBC.

"We have documented more firing squad executions in the first three years of the Cuban revolution alone than there were deaths in all the years of Pinochet. So imagine what the final tally might be," says Werlau, whose organization runs a database called Cuba Archive, an ongoing compilation of all deaths caused by Castro's rule.

The numbers are staggering. Just ask Armando Lago, a Harvard-educated economist and veteran human rights advocate who assembles the archive, or as he describes it, "the net human cost of the Cuban revolution," in his Coral Gables apartment. He initiated his count after a stroke left him partially paralyzed in 1996. He fell into such a severe depression that fellow rights advocates, hoping to nudge him back to life, offered an ambitious, if ironic, idea:

Why don't you document the dead?

That was nearly 114,000 bodies ago.

It's not just the number, it's the torture and the victims, men, women, boys and girls.

Among the executed there have been children, pregnant women, nuns, priests. It is a tremendously diverse population: blacks and whites, old and young, gay and straight, white collar and blue collar, liberals and conservatives.

Read the manner of their torture.

But for reasons beyond the grasp of the victims and their survivors, the enormity of their collective tragedy has never been enough to bring Castro to justice. There has been no lasting international outrage or consciousness. Then again, this population has no brand, no signature beret, no funky Che Guevaresque graphic to galvanize the masses. It offers only a flood of stories, case studies and bodies.

The reason is the left wing media supports communism. Worse, now the left have joined forces with Islamists and the left wing media is supporting them as well. The left, communists, Islamists all joined together with the backing of the left wing media - what an insane world they have created.