Aid donors announce investigation into tribal evictions in Ethiopia
Bulldozers clearing Mursi land in Mago National Park, where communities
are being evicted from their land to make way for sugar plantations
June 24, 2014 (Survival International) — Representatives of some of
Ethiopia’s biggest aid donors have announced that they will send a team
to the southwest of the country to investigate persistent reports of
human rights abuses amongst the tribes living there.
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has exposed how the tribal people of the Lower Omo Valley are being persecuted and harassed to force them off their land to make way for cotton, oil palm and sugar cane plantations.
Many other organizations have published similar reports.
The plantations are made possible by the Gibe III hydroelectric dam, which is itself the subject of huge controversy.
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