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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 11:49:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 11:49:30 1985
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> Diana Spalding writes:
> >Most people in Nicaragua have never lived nearly as well as they are 
> >living now. . . . .  most of the people are living *much* better now
> >than they did under Somoza.
> 
> Publications from human rights organizations such as Amnesty
> International and the human rights subcommittees of the Senate and
> House are also enlightening.
> 
> 	charli

If you are going to cite Amnesty International then you should point
out their actual findings: which were that there were human rights
violations in terms of disappearances in 1981 in Nicaragua but
those have declined to almost nothing.  That even during the worst
periods of human rights violations in Nicaragua they never equalled
the toll of the right-wing death squads.  That during the last
year the major violator of human rights in Nicaragua were the 
contras supported by the U.S. who have killed, raped and 
assaulted thousands of Nicaraguans.
  
    tim sevener  whuxn!orb