Ethiopia Used Aid Money for Repression, Human Rights Watch Says
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Ethiopia’s ruling party used international aid to suppress dissent before elections in May, which it won with a landslide, Human Rights Watch said in a report on its website today.
The New York-based group said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front used “donor- supported programs” to “control the population, punish dissent, and undermine political opponents.”