Report: Chinese Paramilitary Trained Cuban ‘Black Beret’ Repressive Force

"The independent outlet ADN Cuba published photos late Thursday reportedly showing members of Cuba’s “black beret” repressive forces training alongside the Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP), a paramilitary force deployed to repress Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kong protesters.

The black berets – formally the Special National Brigade (BEN) of the Cuban communist regime – are themselves a paramilitary force used to repress pro-democracy dissidents. They have become a major focus of international coverage in the past month due to their role in suppressing the July 11 protests, which erupted simultaneously in almost every major city on the island that day. The protests overwhelmingly consisted of peaceful marches and assemblies in town squares demanding the end of the 62-year-old Castro regime.

Despite the lack of violent activity on the part of protesters, the Communist Party reacted to the protests by issuing an “order of combat” demanding civilians physically assault suspected protesters and deploying black berets to publicly brutalize and arrest them. Many of those identified as victims of police brutality are children and several have stated that they were not participating in protests, merely caught near an assembly and assumed to be sympathetic.

In the days following the initial protests, Cubans filmed black beret BEN troops engaging in violent door-to-door raids looking for suspected protesters and dragging civilians out of their homes. In one particularly violent incident, a family filmed police beating a man, and a black beret accompanied by an attack dog shooting him, in his own living room in front of his toddler children."

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