00:00In another blatant act of aggression against the Cuban people's sovereignty, the United States announced charges against General Raul Castro
00:07and five co-defendants for their elect roles in the February 24, 1996, shoot-down of two brothers of the
00:15rescue aircraft 30 years after the event.
00:18The Miami Grand Bureau has accused a revolutionary leader of conspiring to kill U.S. citizens, destroying aircraft and committing
00:26four counts of murder for the death of Cuban civilian pilots aboard brothers to the rescue planes.
00:32Let's recall that the pilots were carrying out an act that violated Cuban territorial sovereignty and their actions were responded
00:40to in accordance with the principle of defense of the homeland.
00:43The charges against Raul Castro, who was the minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces at the time of the
00:50incident, are based on allegations that he authorized and supervised the military chain of command that led to the shutdown
00:58of aircraft operated by dissidents over Cuban territorial waters.
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