"An Island on a Continent"

– Avoiding the response about what happened to the doctors who were saving lives in African territory and the lack of transparency in the information provided, increases responsibility for the acts committed.

La Habana, June 13, 2024-. In the recently issued Quarterly Civilian Casualty Assessment Report, the US Military Command in Africa (Africom) acknowledges that the US Armed Forces carried out a bombing raid near the town of Jilib, Somalia, on April 15, 2019.

However, the document asserts that the attack did not cause the death of civilians, and no explicit mention is made of the Cuban doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez.

The text, which recognizes the indiscriminate use of means of war against the civilian population, but does not offer any clarity about the island’s doctors, earned a response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, on the social network.

«The information released by the US spokesperson is surprising and does not provide anything news about our compatriots Assel and Landy. «Since April we have been waiting, without a response, for inquiries that Cuba officially requested regarding the Africom attacks in another town in Somalia,» the Foreign Minister wrote.

On April 12, Cuba accused the United States of not responding «with the seriousness or urgency required» to Havana’s requests to clarify the alleged death of the two doctors kidnapped by Al Shabab in Kenya.

Avoiding the response about what happened to the doctors who were saving lives in African territory and the lack of transparency in the information provided, increases responsibility for the acts committed.