(6 Oct 2009)
1. Various of people marching in silence at Colon cemetery
2. Wide of people standing in front of tomb
3. Cubana Airlines employees and members of Cuban National Fencing team standing with floral wreaths
4. Relatives of airliner bombing victims wearing t-shirts with an image of a plane crashing into water
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Morales, Daughter of former Cuban Fencing Coach Luis Morales:
"We only ask that he be tried and that the world know the truth about the damage these terrorists have done to people, to Cuban families. It's a pain we've been carrying for a long time and it has caused a lot of suffering. That is our message to the president of the United States. He can mitigate that pain so we can at least live with it."
6. Wide of crowd approaching tombs to place flowers
7. Various of relatives and friends of the victims placing flowers on graves
STORYLINE
Cubans marched in silence by the hundreds on Tuesday to mark the 33rd anniversary of an airliner bombing that killed 73 people.
Approximately 400 people marched in silence through Havana's historic Colon cemetery Tuesday morning to remember family and friends who died in the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane travelling from Barbados to Havana.
Once they reached the tombs of their loved ones, a minute of silence was observed then followed by a wreath-laying ceremony and the placing of individual flowers on the tombs.
Mourners expressed frustration and sadness at the fact that the man accused of the crime, Luis Posada Carriles, who is currently living in the United States, has yet to be punished for his alleged involvement.
Posada Carriles, a Cuban native who became a naturalised Venezuelan, is accused of masterminding the attack.
"We only ask that he be tried and that the world know the truth about the damage these terrorists have done to people, to Cuban families. It's a pain we've been carrying for a long time and it has caused a lot of suffering" mourner Margarita Morales said on Tuesday
Morales' father was the coach of the Cuban National Fencing team and died along with the entire Cuban team when a bomb on board the plane on which he was travelling exploded moments after taking off from Barbados.
"That is our message to the president of the United States. He can mitigate that pain so we can at least live with it" Morales said on Tuesday.
Posada Carriles is currently living in South Florida after allegedly crossing into the United States illegally from Mexico in March 2005.
Governments in Havana and Caracas have been clamouring for him to be sent to Venezuela to stand trial in the bombing, but a US immigration judge declared in 2005 he could not be deported there, citing the possibility he would face torture, a claim vehemently denied by Venezuela.
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