Statement of Gerardo Hernández

[extract] (December 12, 2001)

[...] Your Honor, I have always said, and will repeat now, that I deeply regret the loss of those four lives [in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue clash], and I understand the suffering of their families. I also regret the thousands of lives that have been lost as a result of the constant aggression suffered by my people throughout more than 40 years, and the eternal mourning of many, many Cuban families. These dead also have names and faces, although their pictures cannot be shown in this courtroom.

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