Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuts.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuts!orb From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua Message-ID: <353@whuts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 11:49:30 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.353 Posted: Mon Nov 4 11:49:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:01:17 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <433@cylixd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 > 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