On I January 1983, 67 peasants, most of them chil­ dren, were kidnapped by a counter-revolutionary unit at the village of San Rafael, north of Jalapa. The kid­ napped persons were taken to the territory of Hon­ duras. On that same day, 60 counter-revolutionary elements attacked the village of Miilkilse, north-east of the town of Ocotal. On 4 January, a counter-revolutionary camp with a capacity for 180 elements was dismantled; a large number of weapons of United States manufacture were found there. On 5 January, a counter-revolutionary detachment was surprised while making an incursion into Nicara­ guan territory in the area known as Los Robles. 400 metres from the frontier line. On 9 January. a band consisting of 40 counter­ revolutionaries murdered two Nicaraguan civilians who were picking coffee at Cerro Helado near the village of Yali. On the same date, several of the peas­ ants who had been kidnapped on I January managed to escape. Their statements amply demonstrated the close relations between the Honduran army troops and intelligence services and the counter-revolutionaries. 39 [Original: Spanish] [/7 February /983] On 1-2 January, two technicians were murdered and five others seriously wounded; they had been working for Nicaragua's Ministry of Agrarian Reform at Mata de Platano, between Victoria and Murra, department of Nueva Segovia. On 13 January, three counter-revolutionary ele­ ments and one deserter from the Honduran army were presented to the national and international press by the authorities of my country's army. The statements made by those individuals amply demonstrated the complicity of the highest Honduran authorities in the counter-revolutionary activity carried on from Hondu­ ran territory against Nicaragua. On 16 January, in an ambush set by former Somoza guardsmen against more than 200 Nicaraguan coffee­ cutters, at Namasli, only 400 metres from the frontier, a boy aged 14 and a girl aged 13 were murdered and 15 
**Analysis**
The text describes a series of violent events, kidnappings, and attacks on civilians, which suggests that the conflict is related to political and military activities rather than economic or social issues. The fact that the events are happening along the border between Nicaragua and Honduras and involve counter-revolutionary units and Honduran army troops implies that the conflict is international in nature.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, International trade