How Washington and soft power NGOs manipulated Nicaragua’s death toll to drive regime change and sanctions
Did
Nicaragua’s Sandinista government really kill 300+ peaceful
protesters? A forensic analysis of the death toll exposes the claim
as a dangerous lie.
by
Max Blumenthal
Part
4 - From anti-Sandinista NGOs to international bodies, with no
scrutiny in between
The
Nicaraguan government has appointed its own commission comprised of
independent experts to investigate the deaths that have occurred
since April. According to Hendrix, the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights has refused to accept data from the official Nicaraguan
investigation, relying instead on ANDPH.
This
means that the main international body responsible for drawing
conclusions about the violence in Nicaragua has relied largely on a
partisan NGO with a decidedly anti-Sandinista bent and has done no
independent work.
In
Washington, meanwhile, members of Congress like Ros-Lehtinen have not
only relied on the opposition’s flawed narrative, they have
exaggerated the death toll to drum up the case for a deepened attack
on Nicaragua’s economy.
Hendrix
emphasized that because local human rights NGOs like ANDPH relied so
heavily on highly partisan opposition media to tabulate their death
counts, “it is impossible to verify in so many cases if they are
even telling the truth.”
He
wondered if “we could be seeing an even greater manipulation
than we know.”
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