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...said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail on charges of stealing public funds or enriching themselves by "collaborating" with the Batista regime...
Fidel Castro fumed. A court of his own rebel judges had acquitted 19 pilots, ten gunners and 16 mechanics of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's air force on trial for "war crimes." Taking judgment into his own hands, he decided that the pilots were guilty as charged of "genocide, murder and homicide" in the bombing and strafing of villages during his war on Batista, ordered the verdict reversed...
...essentials of the prosecution case were that Batista's bombers killed at least eight and injured 16 in 600 attacks. As evidence it submitted flight reports of the attacks signed by the pilots themselves...
...Insisted that an "embezzler should lose what he owned as well as what he stole," authorized confiscation of all personal property of Batista and hundreds of officials connected with him-including all Congressmen, mayors, governors, Supreme Court justices, all armed-forces officers who supported Batista's 1952 coup...
Even the temporary suspension of constitutional guarantees was perhaps a reasonable action in abnormal times. Less acceptable, however, is Castro's refusal to allow Batista adherents who took refuge in foreign embassies to leave Cuba. This violation of international principles again suggests that the liberator is not so much a reluctant agent of an aroused people as he is their willing and active leader...