Another Liberal Myth Collapses -- The Miskitos Seek Justice

Remember how celebrated the Nicaraguan Sandanistias were, how Daniel Ortega was lionized by "progressive" Manhattanites, how US support to the anti-Marxist "Contras" was condemned as contributing to crimes against humanity? Of course you do. In the eighties Democrats lined up en-masse to exalt the glorious people's regime and denounce the perfidity and sheer evilness of Republicans who sought to bring it down.

Well, the Sandinista's eventually were removed, through democratic processes, and now they are being brought to account for their crimes. AP reports:

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Miskito Indian leaders on Thursday asked the independent Permanent Human Rights Commission to probe crimes against humanity they allege were committed against their people under Nicaragua's Sandinista government of the 1980s.

The leaders said at a news conference that they also would demand that government prosecutors take legal action against those who allegedly killed at least 150 of their people, burned houses, destroyed crops and slaughtered livestock.

The complaints stem from clashes between the Sandinistas - who were 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 from central control at the same time....

"Our demand is against the Nicaraguan army for the crime of genocide, so that justice is done and so that the relatives of the victims are compensated," the Miskito statement said.

Read it here.

Sandinistas..., genocide..., hmmmm.