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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: paret who wrote (40789)8/20/2005 7:01:49 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
Nicaragua Indians Accuse Sandinistas of Crimes Against Humanity

By Filadelfo Aleman Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 18, 2005

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Miskito Indian leaders on Thursday asked government and human rights investigators to probe allegations that at least 150 of their people were killed under Nicaragua's Sandinistas during the 1980s.
The leaders said that the country's independent Permanent Human Rights Commission should investigate and the government prosecute those who carried out the killings and burned houses, destroyed crops and slaughtered livestock.

The complaints stem from clashes between forces for the Sandinista government - which was trying to create a new, leftist society throughout Nicaragua after overthrowing dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979 - and the English-speaking Indian peoples of the Caribbean coast who were trying to establish greater autonomy.

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