Word: miskitos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
...that "the Contras' behavior is objectively [his emphasis] wrong" and thus justifies the extreme actions of the protesters. Mr. Crystal, however, in his zealous pursuit of convenient truth, completely avoids discussion of the fact that the actions of the Sandinista government with regard to its deplorable treatment of the Miskito Indians, or its suppression of civil liberties, especially the organs of the Church, which have voiced dissent over government policies, are objectively wrong and deserve approbation. It is precisely because of the spiking of these stories by such groups as the Committee on Central America (COCA) that...
...world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Viet Nam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I too am a potential victim of totalitarianism...
...contrast to its brutal relocation of 10,000 Miskito Indians from the Atlantic coast in 1981 and 1982, the government is giving the new evacuees a few days' notice, then sending in troops to help them pack up and move. Some owners of coffee plantations have even been paid market rates for the farms they were forced to leave. The government is also providing food, temporary shelter, medical centers and individual farm plots to the 7,000 evacuated families that will be placed in 47 resettlement camps. While many of the refugees are suspected of having collaborated with the contras...
Sometimes the gesture is a book, but often it is a journey to the side of the sufferers. Four years ago, Wiesel went to Cambodia to aid refugees and, a year ago, to Nicaragua to help the abused Miskito Indians. He plans to leave soon for Ethiopia. "I bring food," he says. "It is never enough, but to save one life is to save the world. And perhaps I can convince one other to save one more life...