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...evacuated or burned between 25 and 40 Miskito villages, allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos, some of whom fought alongside the Sandinistas to overthrow Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, had begun to chafe under Sandinista rule. Some were even known to have joined forces with anti-Sandinista exiles across the Honduran border...
...political rationale for such a maneuver. He believes that the P.L.O. would have no place to go except Jordan, from which it was forcibly expelled in a brutal crackdown by King Hussein's military in 1970-71. With a little assistance from Israel, Sharon believes, the P.L.O. could overthrow King Hussein and establish a Palestinian state in Jordan...
...shattered. Nkomo was unceremoniously stripped of his rank as Minister Without Portfolio in the Mugabe government, a post he was demoted to a year after Nkomo's party won 20 parliamentary seats in the 1980 elections (vs. 57 for Mugabe's). The accusation against Nkomo: conspiring to overthrow the government by force of arms...
...near Gwelo in central Zimbabwe and Umtali in the east. The arsenal included 25 SA-7 missiles, more than 7,000 Soviet-made automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, machine guns and more than 2 million rounds of ammunition. Said Mugabe: "The arms were being hoarded to try to overthrow my government...
Human rights violations in Nicaragua are difficult to confirm. Certainly the Sandinistas have demonstrated authoritarian impulses through several incidents of censorship and the persecution of opposition leaders. Yet three leading members of the right were recently released from prison, among other positive steps taken since the overthrow of Samoza...