ABSTRACT
Repression by Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista regime against the Miskito Indians was repeatedly cited by the Reagan administration, while well-documented reports of the genocidal campaign by the Guatemalan military against the Maya Indians in that country's highlands were ignored. The Nixon administration secretly armed Pakistan during its genocide in Bangladesh, which cost an estimated 1 million lives, while disingenuously justifying continuing the Vietnam War on the grounds that a Communist victory would lead to a massacre of comparable proportions. In 1999, President Bill Clinton tried to justify the 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia on the grounds that the brutal repression and ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces against Kosovar Albanians must not be allowed to happen "on NATO's doorstep". For Kurds on the Iraqi side of the border, who have also been victims of large-scale crimes against humanity, US policy has varied with the particular time period.
