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Word: fishtrap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military helicopters massacred as many as 600 women and children. According to a Brooklyn-born priest who witnessed the one-sided fighting, women were "tortured before the finishing shot, infants thrown into the air for target practice...A Honduran fisherman found five small bodies of children in his fishtrap." Make no mistake; American guns, American ammunition, American helicopters, and on occasion even American personnel are involved: the Washington Post reported less than two months ago the confirmation from State Department sources that U.S. military advisers were riding in an American helicopter when the pilot opened fire on " a group...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

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