Document #1109063
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on abuses by the government
against members of the Partido Resistencia Nicaraguense (PRN) since
1994 could not be found among the sources consulted by the
DIRB.
Only one case of violence suffered by a PRN
member in 1995 could be found among the published sources
consulted, although the source does not identify the
perpetrator(s). The 1995 annual human rights report of the Comision
Permanente de Derechos Humanos (CPDH) of Nicaragua reports that
Isidro Galeano, a 24-year old peasant, former "contra" collaborator
and member of the PRN was found dead on 8 September 1995 (10). He
appeared to have been shot with machine-gun fire, in Cusulí
county (comarca), Waslala jurisdiction (jurisdicción),
department of Matagalpa.
The attached documents provide information
on recent (1995) Nicaraguan political developments referring
directly or indirectly to the PRN.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below a list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Reference
Derechos Humanos en Nicaragua: Informe
Anual 1995 de la Comision Permanente de Derechos Humanos de
Nicaragua. December 1995. Managua: Comision Permanente de Derechos
Humanos de Nicaragua.
Attachments
Central America Report [Guatemala City].
24 November 1995. "Ortega Seeks Presidential Nomination," pp.
4-5.
_____. 28 July 1995. "Parties Gear Up
For Elections," pp. 2- 4.
_____. 30 June 1995. "Disarming Rearmed
Groups," p. 8.
_____. 2 June 1995. "Proposals to End
the Crisis," pp. 7-8.
Additional Sources Consulted
Central America NewsPak [Austin, Tex.].
Fortnightly.
Central America Report [Guatemala].
Weekly.
Human Rights Watch World Report 1996.
1996. New York: Human Rights Watch.
News from Human Rights Watch/Americas
[New York]. Monthly.
Latinamerica Press [Lima]. Weekly.
Latin American Weekly Report [London].
Weekly.
Latin American Regional Reports: Central
America & the Caribbean [London]. Monthly.
Material from the Indexed Media Review
(IMR) or country files containing articles and reports from diverse
sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the Weekly Media
Review.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
IRB, USINS and UNHCR databases.
On-line searches of news articles.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to Information Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no information currently available." Contacting oral sources is also subject to time constraints; for example, there are periods of the year when academics are unavailable.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive. Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not included.