IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 995 
Commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 1996 shooting down of 2 un-
armed Brothers to the Rescue civilian aircraft, licensed by the United 
States, by the Cuban regime. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2008 
Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida (for himself, Mr. SIRES, Ms. ROS- 
LEHTINEN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of 
Florida, Mr. MACK, Mr. FORTUN˜O, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. BURTON of 
Indiana, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. 
ENGEL, Mr. MICA, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. 
HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. 
SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mrs. 
SCHMIDT, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. TIM 
MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. BUCHANAN, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Flor-
ida, and Mr. BOYD of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 1996 shooting 
down of 2 unarmed Brothers to the Rescue civilian air-
craft, licensed by the United States, by the Cuban re-
gime. 
Whereas, on February 24, 1996, while conducting a humani-
tarian search and rescue mission in the Florida Straits, 
2 unarmed civilian aircrafts belonging to Brothers to the 
Rescue, licensed by the United States, were shot down by 
2 Cuban Air Force war planes; 
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Whereas this attack resulted in the deaths of Vietnam War 
veteran Armando Alejandre, Jr., a corporal in the United 
States Marine Corps; United States citizens Mario de la 
Pen˜a and Carlos Costa; and legal United States resident 
Pablo Morales; 
Whereas the planes were shot down with no prior warning or 
adherence to the protocol established by international law 
with regard to unarmed civilian planes; 
Whereas eyewitness reports and later investigations made it 
clear the unarmed planes were shot down in international 
airspace; 
Whereas the United Nations Security Council, the United 
Nations Committee on Human Rights, the European 
Union, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and 
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the 
Organization of American States condemned this act of 
terrorism by the Cuban regime; and 
Whereas February 24, 2008 marks the 12th anniversary of 
this criminal attack: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 
shoot down; 
(2) condemns the shooting down of the 2 un-
armed civilian aircrafts flown by Brothers to the 
Rescue and the murders of Armando Alejandre, Jr., 
Mario de la Pen˜a, Carlos Costa, and Pablo Morales; 
and 
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(3) recognizes the efforts of those working to 
bring international attention to this tragedy. 
Æ 
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