Word: misura
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...MISURA represents the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. The coalition and a second Indian faction, known as MISURASATA, have opposed efforts by the Sandinistas to turn communal Indian property into state holdings and to relocate entire villages. Says MISURA Leader Steadman Fagoth Mullen "We want to be left alone." The group draws recruits from among the 13,500 Indians living across the border in Honduran refugee camps, but, according to Fagoth, his insurgents are so ill-equipped that they must go into battle with as little as 30 rounds of ammunition...
...smallest of the contra factions, the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, and its military wing, the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces, are composed primarily of businessmen, labor leaders and students who originally were allied with the Sandinistas in the fight against Somoza. Like the F.D.N. and MISURA, they have been using bases in Honduras to challenge the Sandinistas' northern border...