The surprising news was that, despite all the repressions and killings, the Ethiopia
Government was privileged to be the top aid recipient in Africa. Currently, the Ethiopian government is receiving $500,000,000 every year ($2 billion in the next 4 years) from the UK government alone. http://www.voanews.com/content/ethiopia-is- top-uk-aid-recipient-117204413/157544.html. According to the current trend, the size of this aid is increasing and there is also a plan for huge investment at the cost of poor Oromo farmers’ displacement due to the land grab. The donors say ‘’w
A number of independent bodies accused the Ethiopian government for using the aid money for repression and sidelining the opposition into submission. Also the Ethiopian Government officials openly use their power to enrich their families and close friends with the aid money. The corruption, poverty and injustice increased alarmingly at a higher rate in Ethiopia as the aid money goes up. So where is the help for the poor?
We believe that the UK and US Governments are fully aware of all sorts of human rights abuses exercised by the Ethiopia Government. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304231206.html?viewall=1. However, they give deaf ears to these repressive and brutal government actions and provide the huge tax payers’ money and give moral and technical supports. Therefore, we appeal to the UK government, the US government and the international community:
Government was privileged to be the top aid recipient in Africa. Currently, the Ethiopian government is receiving $500,000,000 every year ($2 billion in the next 4 years) from the UK government alone. http://www.voanews.com/content/ethiopia-is- top-uk-aid-recipient-117204413/157544.html. According to the current trend, the size of this aid is increasing and there is also a plan for huge investment at the cost of poor Oromo farmers’ displacement due to the land grab. The donors say ‘’w
A number of independent bodies accused the Ethiopian government for using the aid money for repression and sidelining the opposition into submission. Also the Ethiopian Government officials openly use their power to enrich their families and close friends with the aid money. The corruption, poverty and injustice increased alarmingly at a higher rate in Ethiopia as the aid money goes up. So where is the help for the poor?
We believe that the UK and US Governments are fully aware of all sorts of human rights abuses exercised by the Ethiopia Government. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304231206.html?viewall=1. However, they give deaf ears to these repressive and brutal government actions and provide the huge tax payers’ money and give moral and technical supports. Therefore, we appeal to the UK government, the US government and the international community:
trying to help the millions of very poor, very vulnerable Ethiopians improve their
lives’’. But the reality on the ground is that they are financing the government who is
terrorizing and suppressing its people and increasing poverty, while enriching the
e are
government officials and few of their cliques.
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To stop indirect or direct involvements in activities suppressing the struggle of
the Oromo and other victims of the brutal Ethiopian Government by revising
their aid plan.
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To seek justice for Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda who has been murdered
while he was under the custody of the Ethiopian regime.
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To seek justice for the twenty seven innocent Muslims, including 5 children,
who have been massacred in Kofale, Arsi region of Oromia by the Ethiopian
Government?
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To support the Oromo and other victimized communities in Ethiopia to
overcome injustice and help them to live in freedom, peace, and democracy
and achieve stability in the region.
The Oromo community in the UK London, September 13, 2013.
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