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CUBA
Primary-school-age children take part in
repudiating mob
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba - October 24 (Tania
Maceda Guerra / www.cubanet.org) - Students
from the Sierra Maestra primary and the
Centro middle schools participated, along
with their teachers and other school employees,
in an "act of repudiation" directed
against two dissidents.
The mob congregated outside the home of
two dissidents, Bienvenido Perdigón,
and Ana Margarita Perdigón, of the
Cuban Foundation of Human Rights, yelling
revolutionary slogans, threats and obscenities.
The two dissidents have been subjected to
several such acts before.
An "act of repudiation" is an
event in which a mob assembles, usually
in front of a dissident's home, and intimidates
its occupants by yelling, making threats
and throwing things that may occasionally
break the windows' glass. Government and
Communist Party officials claim the mobs
consist of "true revolutionaries"
who assemble spontaneously to show their
contempt for those who are not adherents
of the government line. Dissidents and others
say the mobs are recruited and directed
by government and Party operatives and by
members of the "Rapid Response Brigades,"
who can be seen in every such demonstration.
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