From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ?
Date: 3 Sep 92 06:22:05 GMT
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB

Who Were the "Contras" ?

"The contras have ROUTINELY attacked civilian populations. Their
forces kidnap, torture, and murder health workers, teachers, and other
government employees." -- Americas Watch

"_Terrorism_ is premeditated, politically motivated violence
perpetrated against NONCOMBATANT TARGETS by subnational groups or
clandestine state agents" -- U.S.. Department of State, _Patterns of
                             Global Terrorism: 1983_, Sept. 1984.

[Capitalization added]

(*)From the Americas Watch report _With Friends Like These_, edited by
Cynthia Brown (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985). For the contras'
history and human rights practices, see also Christopher Dickey, _With
the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua_ (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1985), and Reed Brody's _Contra Terror in Nicaragua:
Report of a Fact-Finding Mission, September 1984-January 1985 (Boston:
South End Press, 1985)

[Found in: _What Are We Afraid Of? An Assessment of the ``Communist
Threat'' in Central America_ by John Lamperti, for the American
Friends Service Committee (published also by South End Press) $5 plus
$2 shipping from: Literature Resources // American Friends Service
Committee // 1501 Cherry St. // Philadelphia, PA 19102
TEL (215)-241-7048 or 7167. See AML resource files AFSCcatalog and
South.end.press.]


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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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