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
2 - Partisan human rights NGOs as a regime change weapon
Hendrix’s
study surveys the deaths recorded by the three main Nicaraguan human
rights organizations. They are the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights
(CENIDH), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), whose
involvement was requested by the government of Nicaragua on May 13th;
and the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH).
These
are the organizations that Congress, the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights, and international soft power organizations like Human
Rights Watch have relied on for their understanding of the violence
that has gripped Nicaragua.
While in
Nicaragua, I learned how members of CENIDH and ANPDH actively
participated in the campaign to remove the Sandinista government. For
instance, I was told by three separate students of the public
university UNAN that CENIDH legal advisor Gonzalo Carrion was present
with opposition students and militants when they took over the campus
and that Carrion was even a bystander to their violence.
Ramon
Avellan, the police commissioner of Masaya, related to me how
staffers of ANPDH repeatedly appeared at his police station alongside
opposition activists to beseech him to surrender. This act that would
have resulted in the total takeover of the city by the armed
opposition, which according to Avellan, included strong
representation from local criminal cartels.
ANPDH
was founded in Miami, the true base of Nicaragua’s right-wing
opposition, and was funded in the 1980’s by the US government’s
National Endowment for Democracy to paint the Contras as victims of
communist brutality. Today, the group remains a political weapon of
choice against the Sandinista movement.
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