Fidel Castro condemned as 'dictator' who killed and abused his own people

As Cuba embarks on nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, dissidents and exiles around the world labelled the revolutionary a dictator whose “crimes against his own people” must not be forgotten. “History will absolve me,” he once told judges of the regime he would eventually overthrow, transforming Cuba into a Communist state and incurring the wrath of the US and its punishing trade embargo.

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