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- Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (III)continued
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- Who Were the "Contras" ? (III)continued
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- "Upon reflection, I found many of the tactics advocated in the [CIA
- "Assassination manual" which he helped translate into Spanish] to be
- offensive, and I complained to the CIA station chief in Tegucigalpa.
- The station chief defended ..the manual, and no action was ever taken
- in response to my complaints. In fact, the practices advocated in the
- manual were employed by FDN troops,. Many civilians were killed in
- cold blood. Many others were tortured, mutilated, raped, robbed or
- otherwise abused.
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- "As time went on, I became more and more troubled by the frequent
- reports I received of atrocities committed by our troops against
- civilians and against Sandinista prisoners. Calero and Bermudez
- refused to discuss the subject with me, so I went straight to our
- unit commanders as they returned from combat missions inside
- Nicaragua and asked them about their activities. I was saddened by
- what I was told. The atrocities I had heard about were not isolated
- incidents, but reflected a consistent pattern of behavior by our
- troops. There were unit commanders who openly bragged about their
- murders, mutilations, etc. When I questioned them about the propriety
- or wisdom of doing those things they told me it was the only way tot
- win tis war, that the best way to win the loyalty of the civilian
- population was to intimidate it and make it fearful of us." Chamorro
- complained to the CIA, as well as to Calero and Bermudez, to no
- avail...Shortly after that, Chamorro acknowledged to a newspaper
- reported that FDN troops had killed civilians and executed prisoners.
- "Calero told me I could no longer work in Honduras," said Chamorro,
- "and I was reassigned to the local FDN committee in Miami. I was given
- nothing to do and I no longer had much interest in working for the
- FDN, or to be more accurate, for the CIA" Chamorro broke with the FDN
- in November 1984. --Holly Sklar, quoting from her November 24, 1896
- interview with Edgar Chamorro. See Sklar's book, p.182-83
-
- [Former Contra Director Edgar Chamorro]
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- _Washington's War on Nicaragua_, by Holly Sklar.
- 1988, South End Press, Boston.
- [South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
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- WHO-WERE CONTRAS Contras' origins; make-up; practices - documented
- FSLN H-RIGHTS Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
- FSLN MISKITOS Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
- FSLN NICAJEWS Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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- OXFAM84 NICARAG Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
- FSLN ACHIEVE Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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- NICA-84 ELECTION Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
- FAIRNESS NICA-USA Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
- NICRAGUA ELECTION Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election
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