History will absolve me, Fidel Castro's self-defense allegation in the trial for the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in 1953, it was translated into Tamil in Sri Lanka, it was released here today. 

The Cuban ambassador to this Asian country, Andrés González, received a copy of the document written in that language, which is spoken by some 75 million people in Sri Lanka and India, from the activist of solidarity with the island Gayathri Ganathapillai, who translated the work, according to a diplomatic source.

History will Absolve me shows that Fidel, a young Civil Law graduate, assumed his own defense in the trial for the July 26, 1953 assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, and pointed out the evils of Cuba at that time, summarized in six fundamental problems, namely the land issue, industrialization, housing, unemployment, education and health.

Among the main issues, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution then highlighted that 85 percent of small farmers paid rent and suffered the perennial threat of eviction.

He also pointed out that more than half of the best lands were in the hands of foreign companies and a large proportion of the Cuban population was illiterate.

In addition, he stressed that 400 thousand families from the countryside and the city lived in crowded conditions and almost two and a half million of the urban population had to pay high rents for the houses they occupied.

Meanwhile, 90 percent of the children in the countryside were eaten by parasites and there were more than a million unemployed on the Caribbean island.

In the Moncada trial, Fidel Castro also denounced Fulgencio Batista's coup in 1952, the crimes against his comrades in struggle committed by the Batista dictatorship, and announced his future government program.