[TWO American lawyers who interviewed Guatemalan refugees in…]
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TWO American lawyers who interviewed Guatemalan refugees in Southern Mexico have drawn up a damning report on the bloodstained Guatemalan military regime's slaughter of the Indian population.
Between 70,000-100,000 Indians hav fled across the border into Mexico, running the guantlet of a 'free fire zone' along the border.
Guatemalan troops are murdering Indian men of all ages, women and children. Women are routinely raped before being put to death.
But an American government spokesperson claimed that the refugees - survivors of the bloodletting - are not a representative proportion of the population'.
'Although some are not guerilla sympathisers, others might be,' he warned.
The Reagan administration recently re-opened the flow of arms and aid to the Guatemalan regime, whose President Rios Montt is a lynch pin of State Department plans to crush left wing guerilla forces.
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