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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <1595@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 16:36:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.1595
Posted: Tue Dec 10 16:36:39 1985
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Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Summary: 

In article <7927@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:

> 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.

I don't know about this particular case, but I should point out that has
been known for quite some time that a commonly used tactic of the contras
is to dress as Sandinista soldiers before tearing apart a town.  They're
trying to undermine popular support for the government, and this is a good
way to do it.  I would try to find reports from creditable human rights
organizations (such as Amnesty International, Americas Watch, &c.) if I
were you.
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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