Congo’s Parliament President Pays Honor to African Martyrs in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 19 (acn) A delegation from the Congolese parliament paid tribute today in
Havana to Patrice Lumumba and Laurent- Désiré Kabila, martyrs of that African nation.

The president of Congo’s National Assembly, Evariste Boshap, unveiled the busts of Lumumba and Kabila at a park dedicated to the African Heroes in Havana, accompanied by member of the Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee Jorge Risquet and the president of the Cuba-Africa Friendship Association Rodolfo Puente Ferro.

Boshap said he was moved a few days before the 49 anniversary of Lumumba’s
murder, “because I see that his democratic work surpasses frontiers and is not forgotten.”

“We will continue fighting for the liberation of the five Cuban revolutionaries unfairly imprisoned in the United States,” he added.

Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hernandez are imprisoned in the United States for having warned Cuba of terrorist attacks schemed by anti-Cuba organizations based in Florida.

In conversations with Ernesto Guevara’s daughter Aleida Guevara and with Victor Dreke, second in command of Che’s guerrilla in El Congo, Boshap said his country will never forget the blood shed by the Cubans who fought for the independence of his country.