The World - News from Feb. 20, 1986
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The U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government are responsible for most of the human rights violations in that civil war, a human rights group charged. The Washington Office on Latin America cited 139 attacks on Nicaraguan civilians last year--assassination, kidnaping, rape, mutilation and torture--and said 118 were committed by the contras. It said that Nicaraguan soldiers were responsible for 21.
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