Asmara, Eritrea – As the U.N. famine warning center issues urgent reports that millions of Ethiopians are once again starving in the Somali populated Ogaden, the International Committee of the Red Cross publishes a statement that the Ethiopian government has denied the Red Cross an operating permit to carry out relief work in the region.
Blocking the Red Cross from relief work somewhere is almost unheard of yet, when it comes to Ethiopia – headed by the G-20 “statesman” Meles Zenawi – this is business as usual.
For the past four years all aid agencies, including the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and U.N. relief agencies, have been blocked by the Ethiopian military from feeding starving people in Ogadenia. There are millions of starving people, maybe as many as 6 million, though no one can say for sure because no one is allowed into the region.
Why is this? Why is there no outcry against this enormous crime against humanity: the blocking of food aid to millions of starving people?
The answer lies at the doorstep of those “humanitarian interventionists,” the Western countries and their puppets in the U.N. who pump billions of dollars a year into propping up the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has for several years now surpassed Egypt as the largest recipient of cash from the West in the entire continent of Africa. While the exact amount is hidden deep inside the opaque reports gathering dust in the offices of the international financial cartels, the IMF reported that, in 2010, Ethiopia’s import bill was $8.7 billion while it exported only $1.7 billion.
Seven billion dollars a year is paid in direct cash grants, loans that are inevitably forgiven – the bulk of so-called African debt relief – or various methods involving financial chicanery. The bill has to be paid or the West knows all too well how quickly the followers of their East African henchman, Meles Zenawi, will abandon him. Full Article
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