OVER 100000 NICARAGUAN REFUGEES IN HONDURAS AND COSTA RICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001500060039-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: January 1, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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- Over 100,000 Nicaraguan refugees in Honduras and Costa Rica.
- 10,000-15,000 Miskito Indians have fled into Honduras.
- 10,000 Miskito Indians interned in camps in Honduras.
- 300,000 people displaced in El Salvador.
- 40,000 civilians killed in El Salvador.
- Central American countries had one of the highest growth rates in
the world from 1970-1977.
- With the inception of civil war in 1978, they all have negative growth
rates over the last five to six years.
- In damage to El Salvador:
-- Salvadoran refugees number in the hundreds of thousands.
-- Guerrilla attacks on crops, factories, roads, and bridges have
cost direct damages and production losses of at least 700 million
dollars.
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Afghanistan
- Soviet sponsored insurgency and repression have produced these results
elsewhere in the world.
- At least 150,000 Afghans have been killed or wounded.
- Some 4 million Afghans--over 25 percent of the population--have
left the country.
- There are 3 1/2 million others in refugee status in Pakistan and
- Hundreds of villages have been destroyed by bombings, and two major
cities have been bombed and looted.
- Destruction of crops and livestock has caused some serious food
shortages.
- At least 10,000 persons are being held as political prisoners,
beaten and tortured.
- The traditional economy has been crippled, and education is at a
standstill.
Indochina
- Over two million people have fled communist rule, a half million by
small boat with as many as 150,000 perishing in attempt.
- 100,000 Vietnamese incarcerated in "reeducation camps."
- Vietnamese and Lao forces--under direct Soviet supervision--have
used lethal chemical agents against Hmong hilltribes causing thousands of
deaths since 1976.
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Ethiopia
- 500,000 refugees have fled to Sudan and other countries.
- 25,000 casualties among people fighting regime and heavy civilian
casualties in fighting.
Resistance to Communist Oppression
- More than 200,000 people have taken arms against communist imposed
regimes in Afghanistan, Indochina, Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Nicaragua.
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