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The Nicaraguan based magazine Revista Envio, which describes its stance as one of " critical support for the Sandinistas ", refers to the report: " The CPDH: Can It Be Trusted?

" written by Scottish lawyer Paul Laverty.

In the report, Laverty observes that: " The entire board of directors the Permanent Commission, are members of or closely identify with the ' Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinating Committee ' ( Coordinadora ), an alliance of the more rightwing parties and COSEP, the business organization.

" He goes on to express concern about CPDH's alleged tendency to provide relatively few names and other details in connection with alleged violations.

" According to the 11 monthly bulletins of 1987 ( July being the only month without an issue ), the CPDH claims to have received information on 1, 236 abuses of all types.

However, of those cases, only 144 names are provided.

The majority of those 144 cases give dates and places of alleged incidents, but not all.

This means that only in 11. 65 % of its cases is there the minimal detail provided to identify the person, place, date, incident and perpetrator of the abuse.