Ethiopan women, seen in a thick fog in this 2004 file photo, carry wood to their homes near Korom, northeast Ethiopia. Aid to help the severe poverty and hunger in Ethiopia has been diverted to support Ethiopia's totalitarian regime, says a new report from Human Rights Watch: Aid-funded education programs have been turned into government ideology reeducation camps; feed-the-poor projects are used to deprive the regime’s opponents of food; aid money is spent to ‘retrain’ judges and teachers. Radu Sigheti/ReutersEthiopia Shows The Damage That Aid Can Do -- Christian Science Monitor
The Ethiopian government is using western aid money to create a totalitarian regime, says Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch have published a timely report on the use of foreign aid money by the Ethiopian government in repressing political opposition. Last week we spoke out against this country's mistaken aid policy, and this report shows why the need by the West to rethink its aid policies is so urgent.
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My Comment: This is not the first case of foreign aid going somewhere else .... nor will it be the last. For me .... the worse case of food aid going to a country that should not receive any is North Korea. Everyone knows that this assistance will only go to the elites and those who are obedient to the state (i.e. the ones who created the mess in the first place) .... and not to those who desperately need it. But after a three year lull, food aid to North Korea is resuming again.