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Five of them raped me at about five in the evening . . ., they had
gang-raped me every day. When my vagina couldn’t take it
anymore, they raped me through my rectum. I calculate that in 5
days they raped me 60 times.
The “freedom fighters” dispatched from Washington also beat her
husband and gouged out the eyes of another civilian before killing him,
as she watched.
Another witness describes a contra attack on his cooperative in April
1984:
They had already destroyed all that was the cooperative; a coffee
drying machine, the two dormitories for the coffee cutters, the
electricity generators, 7 cows, the plant, the food warehouse.
There was one boy about 15 years old, who was retarded and
suffered from epilepsy. We had left him in a bomb shelter. When
we returned . . ., we saw . . . that they had cut his throat, then
they cut open his stomach and left his intestines hanging out on
the ground like a string. They did the same to Juan Corrales who
had already died from a bullet in the fighting. They opened him up
and took out his intestines and cut off his testicles.
In Miami—along with Washington, the base for the war against
Nicaragua and one of the major world centers of international
terrorism—Adolfo Calero, political-military director of the central
component of the US proxy army (the FDN), stated that “There is no line
at all, not even a fine line, between a civilian farm owned by the
government and a Sandinista military outpost”—so that arbitrary killing
of civilians is entirely legitimate. Calero is regarded as a meritorious
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