organisation of the operation which blew Six MORLES ago Chamorro Suomited sworn evidence to the International Court Justice in the Hague that the whole operation was carried carployed directly ag agents the CIA and operating from CIA mother ships.
Chamorro was unable to submit his evidence in person because, since he has broken with the FDN and spoken out against US policy, immigration officials will not let him leave the USA where he now lives.
This damning evidence from the horse's mouth much OLner will uNs highnet togal body. / lead the the UN's highest legal find in tavour against the USA's Magrant Nicaragua's act of terrorism.
The USA, however.
pay attention. Earlier in 1985 Reagan anJune - USA would not recognise the court on Central American matt on 1°O tober, ears. matters two years. ahead anyway, the USA the court decided to announced it would no SEVEN Namibians have been found guilty of 'terON 5 JANUARY 1984 Edgar Chamorro was woken in his home in Tegucigalpa, Honuras by a CIA 'advisor'. Chamorro was at that time a leader of the Frente Democratico Nacional (FDN), the leading 'contras' who are fighting to overturn the Nicaraguan government. He was told to read out a statement on the FDN radio claiming responsibility for mining Nicaragua's ports - an up a Dutch dredger, Panamanian tanker, a Liberian ship with British crew, a soviet tanker and a Japanese cargo vessel.
longer accept the court's jurisdiction except for 'mutually submitted' cases - that is, cases it thinks it can win.
The USA has thus effectively abandoned any pretence legality, threatened with a judgement which could not but find it guilty of overt and flagrant state-tinanced ter. rorism.
Nothing could make clearer what the contras actually are: straight creaton USA.
Originally they drew in a BULOCE figures such as Chamorro himself. and the tamous 'Comandante Cero', who were involved in the overthrow of Somoza.
They also succeeded in drawing In forces among the North Atlantic Coast population of particularly the Miskito Indians, who were alienated by early mustakes orune revoniton But the overwhelming bulk of the FDN's cadres were drawn from former Somocista guards, more or less ourecu subore nate Lo the 900 or so 'CIA advisers now with them in Honduras. Comandante Cero was taken out of action by a bomb widely considered planted by the CIA itself, because of his opposition to these ex-Somicistas.
The FDN is very little more man an anor te US government with no inaependence. financed, directed, and run by the CIA and the US military.
It is for this reason that they have support within Nicaragua and this in turn is the root cause of their military reverses, not - as Reagan tries to maintain because of their lack of weaponry But this in turn drives them LO lacucs or very brutal and destructive ter Reports abound of kidnappings, mass shootings, assassinations, rape, and torture Their initial strategy, municado for over a year. revealed in 1983, was to seize border settlements 'liberated , creating a corridor through which Honduran US forces would enter Operation 'Big Pine', which was held in Hon duras in May 1983 when the plan was supposed to take effect, involved 1,600 soldiers Honduran troops in a simulated maritime invasion of a foreign territory by Honduras with backing US marines anc paratroopers.
The plan failed because the - 1.200 troops who entered Nicaragua from Honduras immediately after Big Pine were isolated and defeated by the FSLN and had to Thereafter the contra tactics increasingly turned to terror, the purpose of which was essenThe seven pleaded guiltially to sabolage ine Nicaraguan economy By August 1984 a report to the.UN showed that Nicaraguan casualties stood at 4,038 civilians of whom 854 were murdered 3,031 dednapped and 153 wounded. children under 12 had been killed and 37 maimed. In addition 3,353 members of the been killed total casualties to 7,391.
Tennes as had Brilled someone had 100,000 civilians, kidnap.
ed hal a million, killed off a number soldiers equal to the entire armca rorces. nis is real state terrorism on the grand scale his is what president the future Reagan wants to offer the world. Don't let South Korea chosen by an electoral college. This was Wacking members placed under house arrest.
it is heavily dependent.
Haiti of masks, and bulletproof vests More than 50,000 people demonstrated against the government in Kwangju on 30 March in response to a call from the New Korea Democratic Party to demand constitutional revisions to provide for direct popular election of the president. Under the present constitution he is established by the present incumbent, dictator Chun Doo Hwan who took power in 1980 with US Opposition to Chun Doo Hwan has been rising since the fall of Marcos. The day after he was ousted the NKDP issued a statement saying *We are all watching the Philippines because there are striking similarities to South Korea'. A wave of vicious police attacks on NKDP members followed its decision to launch a petition, for which they seek 10,000,000 signatures, demanding the constitutional changes. The police announced that the petition violated the present constitution and anyone who signed it was liable to be jailed for up to seven years. The NKDP's offices were raided and temporarily closed, and 300 NKDP There are 40,000 US troops in South Korea, one of the USA's most vital Pacific military bases After a period of hectic economic growth it has suddenly been hit by the gathering economic storms over Japan and the USA, on whose custom Since Duvalier was overthrown the USA has sent $384,000 worth of riot gear to the Haitian army including 150 shotguns, 10,000 rounds of birdshot, 5,000 teargas cannisters, gas Haitian youth attacked during an anti-government protest on 21 March also claim that the US supplied rubber truncheons used to beat them by the police. The US embassy issued a
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