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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Aug 09 2011 - 07:37:19 EDT
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa-emerges/ethiopia-accused-starving-opponents
Ethiopia accused of starving opponents
An investigation alleges that Ethiopia is selective in its use of food aid,
starving opponents while feeding supporters in rural areas
*Tristan McConnell* <http://www.globalpost.com/bio/tristan-mcconnell>*August
9, 2011 05:50*
Drought in the Horn of Africa and famine in Somalia are eliciting a massive
international humanitarian response, but a recent report by journalists
working undercover in Ethiopia alleged that the government in Addis Ababa is
using aid selectively: giving food to party members and supporters but
withholding it from opponents.
The report <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9556288.stm> by
the BBC’s Newsnight programme was in-depth but the allegations of
politicised aid<http://www.hrw.org/audio/2010/10/18/ethiopia-aid-tool-repression>are
not new nor are complaints of human
rights abuses<http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/110512/ethiopia-meles-zenawi>
.
The Ethiopian government’s
response<http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/news_archive/PRESS_STATEMENT_ON_NEWSNIGHT.pdf>was
predictably angry.
So is Ethiopia starving its own people, using aid giving by the US and
others? Why not watch the report and make up your own mind.
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