Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: nicaragua Message-ID: <157@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 13:17:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcb.157 Posted: Tue Sep 25 13:17:34 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:01:34 EDT References: <3590@decwrl.UUCP>, <502@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 21 Mike Kelly quotes a New York Times article which implies that Nicaragua has a better human rights record than does El Salvador. He uses this to justify his assertion that we are supporting the wrong side. Both he and the writer he quotes are ignoring all stories that do not conform to their versions of reality. Most of the counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua are Nicaraguan peasants, or Miskito or Misura indians against whom the Sandinista government is pursuing a genocidal campaign. Further there have been many reports ( all of which have been ignored by Amnesty International since they don't match THEIR illusions either ) of imprisonment and torture of men, women and children in their pursuit of ideological purity. The Nicaragua government now has an armed force over three times the size of Somoza Guardia Nacional and armed with much heavies weapons such as artillery and tanks than Somoza's ever had. The Sandinista revolution began as a wide based one but has since resulted in a government representing only the minority Marxist element. Somoza was a dictator who was justifiably overthrown but he has been replaced by a government even more repressive. We are supporting the correct side(s) in Central America. The left-leaning press in this country does not understand the region and does us no good in their slant of the news.