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Ethiopia: Politicizing Food Aid, the Unabated Behavior of the TPLF Leaders  By Ginbot7Press Release On March 3, 2010, the BBC broke to the world the news that millions of dollars in international aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by the TPLF leaders to buy weapons to overthrow the military regime in power. Though it is unclear why it took the resourceful BBC twenty-five long years to investigate a scandal of this magnitude, its recent headline news was familiar to the Ethiopian people. Unfortunately, this criminal behavior of the TPLF leaders remains unabated to this day. Three former high ranking TPLF officials, Seye Abraha, the man who led the TPLF army to Addis Ababa, Ghebremedhin Araya head of Finance, and Aregawe Berehe founding member of the TPLF, have corroborated BBC’s expose. According to Ghebremedhin Araya and Aregawe Berhe, up to 95% of the food aid was used to purchase arms. In his recent article titled “Politicization of Food Aid under One-Party Rule in Ethiopia”, Seye Abraha acknowledged, “As a veteran politician and an ex-commander of an insurgent army that brought down the Derg military regime, I know relief aid could be misused to purchase ammunition, weapons, spare parts, fuel and other materials.” [ Read the rest... ]
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