(July 05, 2011, guardian.co.uk) --BBC report alleges the government is withholding aid from opposition supporters and committing human right abuses.
Development aid in Ethiopia is alleged to have been withheld from those opposed to the government. These are longer-term funds aimed at poverty reduction, not the emergency aid currently needed to help those affected by the famine.
A joint undercover team from BBC's Newsnight and the bureau of investigative journalism at London's City University, travelled to Addis Ababa, the capital, and the south, posing as tourists.
They spoke to farmers in the south who supported the opposition. The farmers said they were deprived of fertiliser and seed for their crops.
The team also found evidence that people had been tortured for their political beliefs. An opposition politician described scenes of torture, men hung upside down, immersed in water and given electric shocks. The Ethiopian embassy in London refuted (pdf) the allegations.
The Newsnight report on Thursday contained interviews with women who said they had been raped by soldiers and men who said they had been tortured in prison. The women were among the growing number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
The Newsnight report on Thursday contained interviews with women who said they had been raped by soldiers and men who said they had been tortured in prison.
The women were among the growing number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
One Ethiopian grandmother of four, who arrived at the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya last month, said how soldiers killed her son in front of her and than jailed her for one-and-a-half years during which she was repeatedly raped.
Another woman at Dadaab who had been accused of being a supporter of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, a rebel group, said soldiers stamped on her stomach when she was eight months pregnant, killing her child. Read More from the guardian.co.uk »
Development aid in Ethiopia is alleged to have been withheld from those opposed to the government. These are longer-term funds aimed at poverty reduction, not the emergency aid currently needed to help those affected by the famine.
A joint undercover team from BBC's Newsnight and the bureau of investigative journalism at London's City University, travelled to Addis Ababa, the capital, and the south, posing as tourists.
They spoke to farmers in the south who supported the opposition. The farmers said they were deprived of fertiliser and seed for their crops.
The team also found evidence that people had been tortured for their political beliefs. An opposition politician described scenes of torture, men hung upside down, immersed in water and given electric shocks. The Ethiopian embassy in London refuted (pdf) the allegations.
The Newsnight report on Thursday contained interviews with women who said they had been raped by soldiers and men who said they had been tortured in prison. The women were among the growing number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
The Newsnight report on Thursday contained interviews with women who said they had been raped by soldiers and men who said they had been tortured in prison.
The women were among the growing number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
One Ethiopian grandmother of four, who arrived at the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya last month, said how soldiers killed her son in front of her and than jailed her for one-and-a-half years during which she was repeatedly raped.
Another woman at Dadaab who had been accused of being a supporter of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, a rebel group, said soldiers stamped on her stomach when she was eight months pregnant, killing her child. Read More from the guardian.co.uk »
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