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From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: nicaragua
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 13:17:34 EDT
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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overthrown but he has been replaced by a government even more repressive.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.