Primary-school-age children take part in repudiating mob

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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