harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/08/91)
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"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]
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"Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and
took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their
testicles cut off, and their eyes poked out. They where killed
by slitting their throats, and pulling the tongue out through
the slit."
Survivor's account of a contra attack. Jonathan Steele and Tony
Jenkins, Manchester Guardian Weekly, Nov. 25, 1984. [Cited in _Turning
the Tide_ (Use GET command with CONTRA TERROR)]
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(*)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.
Use GET command with AFSC CATALOG or with SOUTH END
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