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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Important Vote
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 17:08:01 EST
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> But I didn't
> hear you complaining of "massive" U.S. funding of a regime that has also
> been implicated in rather brutal violations of human rights.
> 
> Jim Matthews
> matthews@harvard
>  

America's Watch has just issued a report on the human rights violations of
the Nicaraguan govt and the contras.  Paraphrased, the report states that
violations on the part of the govt have decreased substantially, while the
contras continue to be `brutal'.  They are particularly fond of killing
or kidnapping medical personnel.  The Dean of the Medical College (UNAN)
in Managua was recently abducted, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

The worst violation of the Nicaraguan govt that I've seen documented was
their forced relocation of Miskitos south from the border.  The govt has
admitted its grave errors in doing this the way they did.  The National
Assembly is currently working on legislation granting autonomy (in what
form we know not) to the various non-Hispanic populations: Miskitos, Sumus,
English speaking blacks.

If the contras have so much support indigenous to Nicaragua, why are the
people given arms?  Aid to the contras is aid to the economic and
cultural devastation of Nicaragua.  We've seen the ``success'' of US
Latin American policy in Chile, where economic sabotage was accomplished
more indirectly between 1970 and 1973.

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