(15 May 2007) SHOTLIST
Havana - May 14, 2007
1. Wide exterior of social club in Havana
2. People listening to speaker during tribune session to present case against Luis Posada Carriles
3. Woman on stand talking about the alleged actions of Posada Carriles against Cuba
4. Wide of panel listening
5. Cutaway audience listening
6. Mid of one of the student judges listening to speech
7. Cutaway banner inside youth Club Hall
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Camilo Rojo, son of one of the victims of the 1976 attack on Cubana Airlines plane:
"On various occasions we have repeated that we won't rest until justice is done, we won't take a break until the terrorist is back in prison, we won't rest until the terrorist pays for what he has done."
9. Various of Manuel Hevia, director of Cuba's Centre for Historical Investigation speaking at event
10. Cutaway judge listening
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Hevia, director of Cuba's Centre for Historical Investigation:
"Well, we have been called here to take part in a political trial against Posada Carriles in order to show to our people and if possible to the world our political evaluation of the actions taken by this terrorist."
13. Mid of panel of judges
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Hevia, director of Cuba's Centre for Historical Investigation:
"Knowing the important involvement that Luis Posada Carriles had as the mastermind behind the destruction of a civil aircraft which killed 73 passengers, I don't think there's a person in the world who could hold a positive opinion of this criminal."
15. Mid of audience
STORYLINE:
Cuban students symbolically tried Luis Posada Carriles in absentia on Monday, accusing the anti-communist of teaming up with Washington to commit terror attacks.
A four-judge panel of University of Havana law students was scheduled to listen to 32 witnesses over two days before issuing a sentence against the 79-year-old Cuban-born former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) operative Posada Carriles.
The verdict was not in doubt. The trial was organised by the Communist Party's youth wing and other pro-government groups.
There was no sign of anybody to offer a defence for Posada.
No new evidence was expected, though Cuba hopes a symbolic "political trial" will keep public pressure on Posada Carriles.
Witnesses included Cuban government investigators and students who studied the case both in Cuba and Venezuela.
"We have been called here to take part in a political trial against Posada Carriles in order to show to our people and if possible to the world our political evaluation of the actions taken by this terrorist," Manuel Hevia, director of Cuba's Centre for Historical Investigation, told AP Television.
Hundreds of college and high school students, filled a spacious room of elegant high ceilings and flowing patios at a social club in the Cuban capital.
They heard an exhaustive list of accusations against Posada Carriles, including charges that he organised a Cuban jetliner bombing in 1976 as well as a series of explosions at Havana hotels in the 1990s.
He was also accused of directing US Iran-Contra arms operations run by US Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and overseeing a plot to assassinate Castro during a summit in Panama in 2000.
One of the witnesses, Camilo Rojo, son of a Cuban passenger who died in the attack against on the Cubana Airliner in 1976 told AP Television the relatives of the 73 people who died would not rest until justice was done.
"We won't take a break until the terrorist is back in prison, we won't rest until the terrorist pays for what he has done," he said.
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