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Titolo: Governo di Castro citato negli USA per un'esecuzione negli anni '60

La famiglia di un'Americano condannato a morte a Cuba negli anni '60
(sotto l'accusa di aver armato insurrezionisti anticastristi) ha
citato Cuba per danni
presso le corti Americane.
A parte l'ironia (oggi uno che fornisse armi a guerriglieri
antiamericani
non sarebbe forse condannato a morte pure negli USA?), mi domando se
sia possibile fare la stessa cosa da noi.  Cioe', famiglie di
condannati
a morte Americani potrebbero citare gli USA o i singoli stati a
giudizio
presso le corti europee.
GT
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Dal Miami Harald
Family seeks to avenge execution by suing Cuba
DAVID GREEN 
Three years ago, Bonnie Anderson trekked to the shabby graveyard in
Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, where her father lay buried. His grave was gone.
That was just the latest in a series of outrages the Castro government
committed against her family, Anderson says.
First, a Cuban firing squad shot her father, Howard F. Anderson, in
1961 after the government convicted him of smuggling arms to
anti-Castro groups. Then the Castro regime refused to ship home his
body. Then his remains were dug up and thrown out.
After 40 years of grief, her family is seeking redress in court: On
Friday morning the Andersons filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit
against the Cuban government.
The suit -- one of a growing number against foreign governments that
the United States says sponsor terrorism -- alleges the Castro
government violated its own laws by prosecuting Anderson in a sham
trial. The regime executed him for an offense that under Cuban law
ordinarily carried a maximum of nine years in prison, the suit says.
That constituted a terrorist act, the suit asserts, and the Cuban
government should pay Anderson's widow and her children damages.
The Cuban Interest Section in Washington, D.C., refused to comment
Friday.
The Anti-Terrorism Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996 allows
victims to sue foreign countries for civil damages in U.S. courts.
However, the nations must be classified by the State Department as
sponsors of terrorism -- as Cuba is.
Legal experts say the Andersons can win. The Cuban government most
likely won't show up to defend itself, experts say, granting the
Andersons an automatic legal victory.
``The trick is collecting the money,'' says Joel Perwin, an attorney
who represented the relatives of three Brothers to the Rescue pilots
shot down over international waters in 1996.
The relatives sued the Castro government in federal civil court in
Miami. A judge eventually awarded them more than $90 million from
funds frozen by the United States since the Cuban trade embargo in the
early 1960s.
Whether the Andersons see such largess, the family says, is not the
point.
``Whatever comes out of this,'' said Anderson's son, Gary, 55, ``I'll
finally have a chance to stand up and say, `Fidel mato a mi papa' ''
-- Fidel killed my father.
WORLD UNRAVELS 
Howard Anderson moved his wife and, at the time, his only child to
Cuba in 1947. He ran a small string of family-owned gas stations,
factories and a Jeep distributorship there.
Tall and blond, Anderson was an avid fisherman. Sepia-toned photos
show him in a small boat and frolicking on the beach with his young
wife.
But their world began to unravel when Castro took power in 1959. The
political atmosphere turned turbulent. Castro spewed hours of
anti-American vitriol in marathon speeches.
Anderson temporarily moved his wife and four children to a Miami
hotel. But he returned to Havana to tend to his businesses. In March
1961, military agents arrested him on charges of smuggling arms into
Cuba.
His family later learned that he was indeed part of the anti-Castro
struggle.
``He was not a paid CIA agent,'' Bonnie Anderson told the Herald in
1991. ``He did favors for the CIA. He carried messages back and forth.
He brought in radios. Many people in the American colony down there
were active in helping American intelligence gather information and
also providing assistance to the underground.''
Anderson's two-day trial started on April 17. To his misfortune, the
CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was launched the same day.
As the military tribunal detailed its accusations against Anderson,
air-raid sirens wailed in the background. Anti-aircraft guns boomed.
With the invasion underway, anti-American hysteria seeped into the
courtroom, according to trial transcripts and observer accounts.
``The prosecutor stood up on the table and shouted things like, `Death
to the American!' '' Fernando Zulueta, the Andersons' attorney, says.
SENTENCED TO DEATH 
Within hours the tribunal sentenced him to death.
As Anderson sat in his cell after the verdict, he penned a letter to
his family.
``I find myself quite calm and find that I am not in the least afraid
or nervous,'' he wrote. ``I hope and pray that you will forgive me for
the troubles that I have caused you in the past and especially this
present big one.''
Shortly before dawn on April 19, soldiers got him from his cell, led
him outside and offered him a blindfold. He refused.
Those watching from the windows of nearby cells remembered hearing
Anderson whistle as the firing squad took aim.
In the years since his death, his family has moved on. His widow
remarried. His daughter, Bonnie, became a journalist -- writing a
lengthy account for the Herald of her 1978 pilgrimage to her father's
grave.
The city of Miami named a small street in Flagami as Howard F.
Anderson Way.
But the wound his death caused his family has never quite healed. The
lawsuit, the Anderson family says, is an attempt to address a grief
they have been nursing for 40 years.
``It brings back memories . . .'' said his widow, Dorothy Anderson
McCarthy, 79, of Pompano Beach, wiping away tears. ``I've waited a
long time. I think we're finally getting justice.''
Š 2001 The Miami Herald and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miami.com/herald

ordinarily carried a maximum of nine years in prison, the suit says.
Mi sembra che sia un caso leggermente diverso: la legge cubana *non*
prevedeva la PdM per quel caso. 
Obelix

 prevedeva la PdM per quel caso. 
Opinione del Harald, se permetti un po' balorda.
aiutare un gruppo di guerriglieri armati che intendono rovesciare
il governo era un reato da PdM pure in Italia fino a pochissimi anni fa.
GT

il governo era un reato da PdM pure in Italia fino a pochissimi anni fa.
Non ho mai sentito di brigatisti rossi condannati alla PdM, eppure il
reato era quello. E, again, non c'azzecca 'na fava: non stimao
discutendo della legge italiana, ma di quelal cubana. *SE* realmente
la legge *non* prevedeva la PdM, allora hanno ragione a fare causa. E
la causa dovrebbedimostrare se e' vero o no. 
Obelix

il governo era un reato da PdM pure in Italia fino a pochissimi anni fa.
Veramente in Italia la pdm è stata abolita nel 1948.
A meno che tu non ti riferisca ad una vera e propria guerra civile; in
tal caso probabilmente sarebbe stato applicato il codice militare. In
questo caso però non si potrebbe parlare di *reato*, poichè se il
gruppo A fa guerra al gruppo B siamo nel campo militare, non penale.
Inoltre il codice penale militare prevede i reati commessi dai nostri
stessi soldati, non da quelli avversari (ovviamente). 
--
Antonella
"Io gli sputo addosso"
(Oriana Fallaci)

 il governo era un reato da PdM pure in Italia fino a pochissimi anni fa.
Ti sei visto troppi serial TV. La pena di morte in Italia non c'č e penso che sia almeno 50anni che
non esiste piů. Se stai di  fucilazione, tale pena č prevista solo in caso di GUERRA.

Se stai di  fucilazione, tale pena è prevista solo in caso di GUERRA.
E adesso neanche per quello. 
Obelix