They grabbed me by the hair and put a knife in my throat and an AK in my kidneys and kicked me. They did this so I would say I had been helping the contras. If I had told them that. they would have killed me." In addition to the mistreatment of civilian prisoners many refugees and people still living in Nicaragua reported incidents of mistreatment of contra prisoners and Sandinista deserters. A nurse stationed in a Zone called "La Guinea" described an incident with a contra prisoner. She was in a place called "La Fonseca" near Verdun in September 1983 when this occurred. "I was stationed in this town in the health center when one day they [the Sandinistas] captured a contra boy up in the mountains.
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