10 dead, 20 wounded this month in conflicts over land between Nicaragua settlers, Indians

Relatives of Mario Leman, leader of the Miskito political party YATAMA, mourn during Leman's wake in the Caribbean coastal town Waspam, Nicaragua, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Leman was killed during a recent clash between a group of Sandinistas and YATAMA members. The Miskito indigenous people say tensions began when they began expelling squatters who had occupied parts of their land. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) (The Associated Press)

Relatives of Mario Leman, leader of the Miskito political party YATAMA, mourn during Leman's wake in the Caribbean coastal town Waspam, Nicaragua, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Leman was killed during a recent clash between a group of Sandinistas and YATAMA members. The Miskito people claim that tensions began when they began expelling squatters who had occupied parts of their land. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) (The Associated Press)

Rosman Flores, a member of the Miskito people Council of Elders, winces in pain as a doctor cleans a bullet wound he received a day earlier, in Waspam, Nicaragua, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Flores says he was injured when shot at by Nicaraguan Army soldiers while he and two others were making food runs to surrounding Miskito communities. According to officials, Flores was shot by Nicaraguan Armed Forces for failure to stop at a checkpoint. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) (The Associated Press)