Back in the 1980s, Nicaragua’s Sandinistas engaged in a communist campaign of mass murder against the innocent Miskito Indians on Nicaragua’s north Atlantic coast. The Miskito were peaceful people who lived in a strategic spot coveted by Cuban troops who were making inroads into Nicaragua as the region slid into civil war. Cuban troops wanted a supply route to foment unrest in Honduras and El Salvador, where the war to end communism was much hotter.

The Sandinistas razed villages, burned crops and killed lifestock. Then they force-marched the Miskito on a long trek through the jungle to ‘re-education camps.’ There, Miskito ideas about freedom, democracy and being left alone could be erased by the Sandinista comrades (and their Sandalista collaborators) and a New Socialist Miskito Man could arise. But it didn’t work that way. Over 150 died on the trek through the jungle. Others were tortured and killed. So much for all that great Cuban healthcare. For the Miskito, there was none, and none for a reason.

It was nothing more than mass murder on poor blameless people who resisted communism.

Today, the Miskito are demanding that the wrongs conducted against them not be ignored. They are demanding justice. Just as CAFTA has passed, the Miskito now feel they are not alone in the world. They are not isolated. They are entitled to same rights as all free people.

Slimey Tomas Borge, the Sandinista thug who orchestrated many of these crimes, among others, said the move by the Miskito to demand justice was just election politics. After all, it took them 20 years to do this, he says. What he doesn’t understand is that THERE HAS BEEN A WORLDWIDE FREEDOM REVOLUTION since the liberation of Iraq. And everyone, everywhere is feeling its call. The Miskito fought an earlier version of this struggle and all they got was reviled. The international left propagated horrendous lies about them. And about President Reagan. And about the American officials who went down in the Iran Contra scandal. And in the Nicaraguan freedom fighters who were smeared as criminals.Well, no more. The world has caught up to the truth. And suddenly, people in the U.S. and elsewhere remember and recognize the Miskito struggle against communism. Instapundit has remembered them. Boli Nica has remembered them. And so have we.

Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, take note. You will not get away with it.

Read it here. And don’t miss Boli-Nica’s impassioned account of these crimes here.