Daraartuu Mootii irraa
Karuturi Global Ltd., one of the largest investors in Ethiopia enjoys his prey land (left). A Dutch Flower Company in Ethiopia is another largest rose producer and exporter
The Ethiopian regime is the cause for starving its own people to death. By using inhuman land policies against the people of that country in general and Oromo people in particular. They confiscated land from the indigenous people. People have been uprooted from their fertile ancestral land, where they used to farm without any problem.
Investors rice cultivation in Western Ethiopia
The confiscated land has been sold to the multinational corporations and land grabbers, who came as far as India, Saudi Arabia, the Nederland’s, Germany, etc. These transnationals have leased land for very cheap amounts of money for 25 to 50 or more years. The saddest part of it is that these corporates use the harvest to feed their own people in their respective countries or to sale at the international market for profit, while Ethiopians are starving to death. Other foreign investors use the land to grow non-comestible crops for industrial uses, like production of beer. The rest are using the land to grow flowers. Almost all of these transnationals use fertilizers that have been prohibited in most of the countries because of the teratogenic, carcinogenic and allergy effects they produce and other numbers of problems to the human body and environment.
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The world knows that Ethiopia has some parts that are not arable or we can say it is semi desert that cannot produce any kind of crops. While the population growth is approaching hundred million, Ethiopia (which is unable to feed its own people) is selling fertile farm land to foreign land grabbers, who do not sell the yield locally. Thus, the regime starves its own people.
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Recently the Oromo students and farmers protested against the land grabbing policy, but the answer was killing more than 400 people. So many people have been imprisoned, in some places the military camps and schools were converted to overcrowded prisons. In the meantime, the regime has intensified the construction of prisons. People have been killed, imprisoned, tortured and have been disappeared from the face of earth because of speaking out against the regime’s land grabbing policy. Most of the Oromo students are still suffering, some left the country looking for a safe haven. Unfortunately, some of them were drowned in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in the intent of going to Europe. Others get killed in deserts by human traffickers or die of hunger.
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The Ethiopian regime is still begging for international help to feed the hungry people. After deafening the world of the 11% economic growth. Finally, the truth came out to light the growth was not for the people. It is only for the regime’s officials, cadres, and supporters who are part of the 11% economic growth. The majority of the people lost what used to be theirs. These images speak for themselves and for what is going on in Ethiopia.