By UN Watch ——Bio and Archives--December 21, 2016
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"It was bad enough that both the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva already held separate tributes with a minute of silence to honor the human rights abuser's memory," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights group. "Holding this third shameful and Orwellian tribute at the UN, however, is only rubbing salt in the wounds of Castro's thousands of victims."Today's "special commemorative event" honoring the leader of the Cuban revolution was organized by Cuba's UN mission, and drew numerous UN delegates and officials. "It was obscene for the UN General Assembly to commemorate a brutal dictator, though not all that surprising given that the same body just reelected the Communist government of Cuba as a member of the council, and given that it also elected many other despotic regimes, including Burundi, China, Russia, Venezuela, Qatar and Saudi Arabia," said Neuer.
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UN Watch is a Geneva-based human rights organization founded in 1993 to monitor UN compliance with the principles of its Charter. It is accredited as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and as an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information (DPI).