Alleged "FSLN Mass Grave" Just an Ancient Burial Site Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [An indication of the pathetic intellectual quality of the CIA's disinfo squad. The more things change... Any day now we'll hear that Nicaraguan Jews are being persecuted by the Sandinistas. We understand Mark Green is running for office again in New York City. He'll love it the second time around, too. --NY Transfer] ALLEGED FSLN "SECRET GRAVE" IS REALLY ANCIENT INDIGENOUS BURIAL SITE Managua, August 22 (RHC)--In Nicaragua, an alleged "secret grave" containing the remains of victims of the Sandinista government has been identified as an ancient indigenous burial site. Following the discovery of a skeleton near a prison that operated during the first years following the Sandinista triumph, Reinaldo Aguado claimed that while working as a guard in the prison he witnessed the summary execution of political opponents. Aguado, who has served jail sentences on a number of occasions for petty crimes, is the director of the organization International Human Rights Society -- which has persistently denounced alleged crimes committed by the Sandinistas. The Sandinistas recently charged that the denunciation is part of a slander campaign with political motivations leading up to next November's elections. Nicaraguan police closed the case, while forensic experts have turned over the remains to the country's Institute of Culture. The remains are considered an archeological patrimony since they are believed to date back hundreds of years. Here's the earlier story on this from RHC: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 10 August 2001 NICARAGUA: SANDINISTAS ACCUSE RIGHT WING OF DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN Managua, August 10 (RHC)--Nicaragua's Sandinista National Liberation Front has accused the country's right wing of mounting a slander campaign against the organization in an effort to reverse its lead among voters in next November's elections. On the basis of an alleged eye-witness report, an anti-Sandinista organization called the "International Human Rights Society," claims it is trying to find the bodies of 37 political prisoners who were supposedly executed by the Sandinistas in 1981. The leader of the International Human Rights Society, Reynaldo Aguado, is a former Sandinista who in the 1980s was accused of being a CIA agent. His organization has accused Sandinista leaders of diverse crimes. The alleged witness, 36-year old Silvio Guillou, says he was a prison guard at the detention center where the executions took place. Guillou, who would have been 16 years old at the time, served six prison sentences for common crimes between 1981 and 1997. He now claims that the executions were ordered by founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and former Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who is a candidate for House Deputy in this year's elections. The Sandinistas have charged that right wing President Arnoldo Aleman and the presidential candidate of his Liberal Constitutionalist Party, Enrique Bolanos, are desperate in the face of repeated survey results predicting a Sandinista victory in the November election. (c) 2001 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcamer-08.22.01-23:37:14-27543