He was also beaten repeatedly across the stomach and kidneys until unconscious. Like Smith. he too after a time told his Sandinista captors he would cooperate and escaped. When freed he immediately escaped to a Costa Rican refugee camp. Willson said. he was then put aboard a small boat with 24 other refugees and set adrift with little food or water. Willson recounts that all but six people died on the way to the Honduran refugee camps. Today Willson wears his hair in a ponytail and says he will never cut It again until his country and family are free. His fingernails have not grown back and he bears the disfigurement as a badge of what the Sandinistas are capable of doing. He too. does not understand the American churchs infatuation with the Sandinista government. Daily refugees enter the Rus Rus refugee camp with little more than the clothes on their backs. Living in small hastily built huts to protect them from the elements. they live on a bare and sometimes starving existence. Many of the children have swollen bellies because of long term malnutrition and parasitic infections.
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