Cuban father remembers his son who died in military service: “They took him out of my life”

The father ofAnnier González, an 18-year-old Cuban young man who committed suicide while doing his Military Service Active (SMA) in Matanzas, he asked for justice for the death of his son when he begins a new year suffering from his absence.

“Another end of the year without my only male child, my son, who was taken from my life, another year suffering, another birthday with his absence, another year without justice, but it will come, I assure you,” he said. on Facebook Alfredo González.

In August, González published a heartbreaking message in which he apologizes for not removing him from service.

“A place of mediocre officers who should take care of you and not mistreat you, but unfortunately we live in Cuba, where justice does not exist,” he said.

Last July 4 marked two years since the death of Anier, who was doing his Military Service in the Combinado del Sur prison, in Matanzas.

For his father,From that day on his life "became hell."

"Today, July 4, two years since I lost my child in that misfortune of Military Service. It is hard,It's hard to get up every day and see that empty bed.. It is hard to go every Sunday to see you where you have rested for two years.It's hard to leave your grave every Sunday during these two years and try not to look back. It's hard. My life became hell. EPD my child. I love you and I will always love you," he wrote on his Facebook profile.

González commented that he had seen the publication of the new Military Penal Code and the five-year penalty for evading service, and questioned how many years they have given the officers responsible for the deaths of all the adolescents that have occurred in those institutions, when they are taken there by force.

Likewise, he reiterated that it is the responsibility of these officers to respond for the physical integrity of these adolescents and that "they have to know who is prepared to fulfill any function, to carry a weapon, so that they do not injure themselves or do it to another."

"When our children are in Military Service they are disposable and no one responds. I say this from my own experience," he said.

At the end of 2021, the troubled father confirmed toCyberCubathat his son's death was a suicide and that he was not sufficiently prepared to carry a firearm.

"They put him on guard duty in the Combined towers without ever having had a rifle in his hands and they left him alone and it seems thatbecame panic or anxious and took his or her life"With only 13 days there and 12 days in isolation, they killed him," he said.

He also explained that in the Combinado del Sur penitentiary center they subjected him to a period of isolation, as a coronavirus prevention measure, and when it was found that he was not infected, on July 4, they sent him to a three-story tower in height to perform a guard. That same day he took his life.

He also stressed thatAnnier had no history of mental illness.