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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua:Re to nrh
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 13:01:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 13:01:44 1985
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> the same goes for the Sandinistas. The TELEVISA Mexican evening news had
> a story a couple of weeks ago on cold blood murders by members of the
> sandinista army. Their journalist interviewed several campesinos in
> a remote area in Nicaragua and they described how members of the army
> would storm their towns and kill their families without any reason.
> The journalist first thought they were describing the contras but the
> campesinos told him the contras didn't harm them, "son los soldados...",
> it's the soldiers.
> -- 
>     Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department

Considering the history of the Nicaraguan Revolution, it makes no sense for
the EPS to be committing such atrocities, so at this point I will discard it
as untrue propaganda.  Remember that the revolution was fought to get rid of
just such behavior by the GN.  The Sandinistas know full well the lessons of
Vietnam, El Salvador, etc. -- indiscriminant killing will not defeat
guerrillas.  This is the lesson of Nicaraguan history as well.

Seems to be alot of pressure to produce stories painting the Sandinistas as
evil rather than just politically misguided.

Out of curiosity, what ``remote area'' was this supposed to have occurred
in?

Jeff Myers