From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (VI)
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:54:14 GMT

Who Were the "Contras" ? (VI)

"Another witness describes a contra attack on his cooperative in April
1984:

   They had already destroyed all that was the cooperative; a coffee
   drying machine, the two dormitories for the coffee cutters, the
   electricity generators, 7 cows, the plant, the food warehouse.
   There was one boy about 15 years old, who was retarded and suffered
   from epilepsy. We had left him in a bomb shelter. When we
   returned...., we saw...that they had cut his throat, then they cut
   open his stomach and left his intestines hanging out on the ground
   like a string. They did the same to Juan Corrales who had already
   dies from a bullet in the fighting. They opened him up and took out
   his intestines and cut off his testicles.

"In Miami -- along with Washington, the base for the war against
Nicaragua and one of the major world centers of international
terrorism -- Adolfo Calero, political-military director of the central
component of the US proxy army (the FDN), stated that "There is no line
at all, not even a fine line, between a civilian farm owned by the
government and a Sandinista military outpost" -- so that arbitrary
killing of civilians is entirely legitimate. Calero is regarded as a
meritorious figure and leading democrat by our domestic partisans of
mass slaughter, mutilation, torture and degradation. [19] "

[19] NYT, Nov. 23, 1984; worse still, Calero added that "we are not
killing civilians. We are fighting armed people and retuning fire when
fire is directed against us" from cooperatives --which, most
surprisingly, have armed guards, justifying the massacre of civilians
who are not civilians when contra soldiers, walking by to enjoy the
scenery, are inexplicably fired upon by these terrorists. See the
full-page ad supporting aid to the "democratic resistance" led by
Calero in the NYT, June 2, 1985, signed by Martin Peretz and Leon
Wieseltier of the _New Republic_, along with such regular apologists
for US atrocities as Sidney Hook and John Silber and numerous other
luminaries: Morris Abram, Hyman Bookbinder, Penn Kemble, Samuel
Huntington, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Novak, Albert Shanker,
Allen Weinstein, Ben Wattenberg, etc.

[From _Turning the Tide. U.S.. Intervention in Central America and the
Struggle for Peace_ By Noam Chomsky, 1985, South End Press, Boston.]
[South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
[For a free catalog: 1-800-533-8478; see AML resource files]


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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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