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To: Thomas M. who wrote (50856)10/10/2002 9:22:59 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
First you were wrong about the 12 casulties. Now you say,
CIA backing of the Miskitos is what initiated the hostilities.

Well, is that what happened?

>>>> A final sad story of ethnic terror in the third world has been the genocidal war carried on by the brutal Sandinistas against the mild-mannered Miskito Indians of that country's Atlantic Coast. The event was triggered when the Miskito's would not submit to Communist rule, similar to the situation in Ethiopia/Eritrea.

Writer Michael Utter relates,
The predominantly peace-loving, evangelical Miskito, Rama, and Suma Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast have taken up arms against the Sandinista government. Largely ignored by previous Nicaraguan governments, they have enjoyed a communal land ownership system and self-government through a Council of Elders... The Miskito torment began in 1979, just three months after the Sandinistas came to power. The Council of Elders was replaced with Sandinista revolutionary cadres who initiated reeducation programs designed to indoctrinate the humble Christian Indians with Marxist revolutionary propaganda... Sandinista obstruction of Miskito traditions and beliefs met with strong protest. The Indians demanded that their land and their autonomy be restored, their Christian beliefs restored, and that their Cuban teachers leave. The Sandinistas claimed the resistance was sponsored by the CIA and was counter-revolutionary. Mass arrests and murder of Indian leaders followed.

This is merely another example of the universal aspiration of self-determination that each people possess. And it is also another instance of Communist integrationism denying the nationalistic longings of a nation and attempting to merge distinct peoples into a single geopolitical entity.
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