Student leader killed in west Venezuela crackdown

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111. Killing civilians is a classic SOA/RW tactic in Latin America. One example of many:

During the war against the Sandinista government, the contras carried out many human rights violations, and evidence suggests that these were systematically committed as an element of warfare strategy. Contra supporters often tried to downplay these violations, or countered that the Sandinista government carried out much more. In particular, the Reagan administration engaged in a campaign to alter public opinion on the contras which has been denoted as "white propaganda."
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Americas Watch – which subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch – accused the Contras of:[83]

targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination[84]
kidnapping civilians[85]
torturing civilians[86]
executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat[87]
raping women[84]
indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses[85]
seizing civilian property[84]
burning civilian houses in captured towns.[84]
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Human rights violations as a strategy

A fact finding mission of 1985 – sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Washington Office on Latin America, and carried out independently of any Nicaraguan government interference or direction - found that the contras with some frequency deliberately targeted Nicaraguan citizens in acts of terroristic violence.[9
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The CIA manual, "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare" (Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas), had been written in 1983 to be used by the contras.[100] The manual talks about killing civilians who try to leave an occupied town and to rationalize their killing,[73] hiring professional assassins,[74] blackmailing citizens into working for the contras, and inciting violence during demonstrations

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