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- Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (VI)
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- Who Were the "Contras" ? (VI)
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- "Another witness describes a contra attack on his cooperative in April
- 1984:
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- They had already destroyed all that was the cooperative; a coffee
- drying machine, the two dormitories for the coffee cutters, the
- electricity generators, 7 cows, the plant, the food warehouse.
- There was one boy about 15 years old, who was retarded and suffered
- from epilepsy. We had left him in a bomb shelter. When we
- returned...., we saw...that they had cut his throat, then they cut
- open his stomach and left his intestines hanging out on the ground
- like a string. They did the same to Juan Corrales who had already
- dies from a bullet in the fighting. They opened him up and took out
- his intestines and cut off his testicles.
-
- "In Miami -- along with Washington, the base for the war against
- Nicaragua and one of the major world centers of international
- terrorism -- Adolfo Calero, political-military director of the central
- component of the US proxy army (the FDN), stated that "There is no line
- at all, not even a fine line, between a civilian farm owned by the
- government and a Sandinista military outpost" -- so that arbitrary
- killing of civilians is entirely legitimate. Calero is regarded as a
- meritorious figure and leading democrat by our domestic partisans of
- mass slaughter, mutilation, torture and degradation. [19] "
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- [19] NYT, Nov. 23, 1984; worse still, Calero added that "we are not
- killing civilians. We are fighting armed people and retuning fire when
- fire is directed against us" from cooperatives --which, most
- surprisingly, have armed guards, justifying the massacre of civilians
- who are not civilians when contra soldiers, walking by to enjoy the
- scenery, are inexplicably fired upon by these terrorists. See the
- full-page ad supporting aid to the "democratic resistance" led by
- Calero in the NYT, June 2, 1985, signed by Martin Peretz and Leon
- Wieseltier of the _New Republic_, along with such regular apologists
- for US atrocities as Sidney Hook and John Silber and numerous other
- luminaries: Morris Abram, Hyman Bookbinder, Penn Kemble, Samuel
- Huntington, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Novak, Albert Shanker,
- Allen Weinstein, Ben Wattenberg, etc.
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- [From _Turning the Tide. U.S.. Intervention in Central America and the
- Struggle for Peace_ By Noam Chomsky, 1985, South End Press, Boston.]
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- T h e " N i c a r a g u a L i b r a r y "
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- * Nicaragua
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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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