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T Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday August 21,1985 iiiiii Plantation Oaks Apartment 693-1011 Panel is used as an 'image tool' Effic!encies-$250. 00 2 Bedroom-Ssso. 00 & up All bills paid except electricity — No utility deposit with city Nicaraguan granted asylum WASHINGTON — An official of Nicaragua’s government-operated human rights commission has se cretly defected to the United States, accusing Sandinista authorities of re fusing to allow his office to investi gate most abuses in that country, according to U.S. government docu ments. Mateo Guerrero, former exec utive director of Nicaragua’s Na tional Commission for the Promo tion and Protection of Human Rights, told U.S. interrogators after his defection that Sandinista officials increasingly view the panel as a tool to improve Nicaragua’s image abroad. The commission was established The human rights commission has come gradually un der the control of the Nicaraguan .Foreign Ministry, which has tried to convert the office into a government ‘ : arm* ## \ V''V • 3 1 - =• m.' •• five years ago as an autonomous government agency. Guerrero went to Miami four months ago, telling Nicaraguan au thorities he wanted to go there for English lessons, U.S. sources said Tuesday. Once in Miami, he re quested and was granted political asylum. A four-page U.S. government summary of the story he told U.S. officials, a copy of which was ob tained by The Associated Press, in cluded the following allegations: •The commission, established in 1980 for the purpose of investigat ing human rights abuses, has come gradually under the control of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, which has tried to convert the office into a government propaganda arm. •The ministry’s secretary gen eral, Alejandro Bendana, has mon itored the commission’s activities since late 1983. Early this year, he told commission leaders not to inves tigate allegations of abuses concern ing the forced relocation of several communities in northern Nicaragua. •When two U.S. lawyers visited Ni caragua last year to investigate abuses by anti-communist rebels, the commission paid their three-month hotel bill, totaling $2,777, and pro vided them with office space and transportation. •Of the nine commissioners ap pointed in 1983, six place the politi cal goals of the Sandinista govern ment above the human tights interests of the commission. * Tennis & Basketball Courts * Exercise Room w/Saunas Huge Apartments-Lots of Closet Space * Shuttle Bus * Crystal Clear Pool Mo.-Fr.8-5 1501 Harvey Rd. 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