For your answer ,jason,HRW is deeply unhappy that native Africans are starting to pave themselves out of poverty ...
There are so many other anti Ethiopian progression entities,such as rivers international, the BBC ,the Economist who have ,in vain,casted a smear campaign againt the Ethiopian gov,who ,by the way have progressed their style of rule...
Ethiopia shall prosper in front of their eyes...

The mouth pieces of a despised and hated rigme that is slowly breaking up the country and the family structure are frantically providing excuses not because they are honest but in support of their ethic leader. All of the comments against HRW are perpetrated by Tigrians who blindly support their ethnic leader. According to ethnic Tigrians, any honest reporting of what is taking place in Ethiopia is wrong. They think they hold the truth and the rest of the world is dishonest. One day they will pay a price for their cover up a henious crime by TPLF. Shame! Shame! Shame! on ethnic peddlers, petty tribalists, and backward people!

Gethhaun,

You are a filthy Eritrean. Your filthy agame dictator, Isiass Afekorki, is the most ruthless leader on the face of the earth.

Besmam,

It takes one filthy agame like you to know another. You can fool no one by writing insults in stead of stating the facts why you agree with my statement. Keep lying and covering up the well known crimes being committed against the Ethiopian people. Read reports by non-Ethiopians, talk to people who returned from a visit to Ethiopia, call your friends and ask how they survive in their daily lives. You will hear and learn how a handful Tigrians and their boot lickers enjoy life while the vast majority of Ethiopians are suffering. The country is robbed, abused, people are incarcerated, families are broken up, our land is sold to foreigners, given to the Sudan as a thank you gift, the country is landlocked, and every thing is exported to earn foreign currency for the ruling oligarchy. You cannot defend any of these crimes by throwing insults. In fact insults are lack of ideas. You can deny all of what I stated, yet you cannot hide the truth forever. Get lost gimatam agame!

Is HRW telling the British government to stop giving aid to Ethiopia? What a heartless NGO.

Very unfair, immoral claim by HRW in my opinion. I have worked in several Africa countries - in Ethiopia for the last 3 years as an employee of the UN. Among all the African countries I have had a priveledge to work in, I can personally vouch for Ethiopia is one of the best -- if not the best -- countries that uses foreign aid very effectively. As one of the posters said above, Ethiopia is one of the few countries which is in pace to meet MDGs -- Millennium Development Goals. The numbers don't lie. It is impossible for Ethiopia to make such significant progress towards the MDGs and other socioeconomic indicators if HRW claims of systemic abuse of foreign aid was occurring. Frankly, I find HRW to be a very irresponsible, unethical organization as it desseminates unverified, politically motivated allegations as facts --- that's not only immoral but criminal.

I think HRW gets its information from opposition supporters on the internet --- kikikiki ---- quite an objective evidence --- kikiiik

The aid agencies have played the same game. They have broken the laws, the second hand virtual support of terrorism, protected criminals and pedophiles under the name of Sainthood. The aid agencies have introduced disease like the Nepalese Cholera in Haiti then taken the credit for fighting it. the same with Aids in Cambodia. I do not believe these charlatans would survive without government handouts the ordinary people are getting wise now.

All said in the comments above about unfounded, ill and biased allegation by HRW but we should not take HRW as representative of the generous British and other donor countries. If everybody else was like HRW in those countries we would not have any aid and support for the poor and misfortunate people in Africa, so thanks for those generous and thoughtful donors.
That is great Andrew Mitchell (the International Development Secretary) in clarifying the facts in the ground and not to fell on hands of the conspiracy.
But why is HRW working closely with those power monger extreme opposition’s parties in Ethiopia, why it can't be assess facts independently.
It is so obvious what to expect what those extremist would say by interviewing them about anything happening in Ethiopia and yet they are always source of facts and info for HRW and other similar organizations.
Or is it, HRW as well paid by the Egyptian gov't not to see any dev't progress in Ethiopia and who work hard to make sure Ethiopia remain poor for ever for sake of saving the Nile river for Egyptian.
WHy they so unfounded in the case of Ethiopia?
To my dear Ethiopia who are blinded by the extreme opposition parties in Ethiopia, please be wise in differentiating between national interest and opposing the incumbent gov’t, don't be fool in being a weapon for those outsiders for their ill agenda and conspiracy.
We all have one or another policy that we oppose in Ethiopia but we should not sell our sovereignty for seek of democracy, personal I believe we are in better position than yesterday though we sill a way back from full blown democracy but who got that anyway?...it is long run progress, as far we make sure we progressing a small bit every time…not too bad
No matter what we'll keep on progressing our dev't
God bless Ethiopia!!

HRW tryin to be obstacle for the progress in ethiopia i knew that coz the ground is differnt than his allegations but what i dont know is why? HRW is doin that.what HWR gettin out of it this is the most secret to me am sure some knows that.anyways ethiopian had had a good experience from the past few years and took a lesson from china

It's clear by now to everyone HRW is a big time Criminal defamer and libeler!

Everyone is wrong; dozens of NGOs who work on the ground in Ethiopa are wrong, the UN on the ground is wrong, several Western research institutes who have studied about Ethiopia's development in various fields are wrong, except HRW, which is sitting in NY and writing baseless allegations based on extremist, partisan sources, including well known terrorists!!!

what is the problem of the so called HRW? why always crying? it is always obstacle for Ethiopian development. whose agenda HRW is implementing?

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HRW methodology is obviously deplorable, as their report is a galaxy away from the reality on the ground.

But why is their methodology so obviously wrong, even to a 4th grader?? It's either because they are incompetent or totally corrupt. I will take the latter.

Mitchell,

Don't try to misinform the international community! You can't speak truth because you know very well that you can't live peacefully in Ethiopia if you utter any word against Meles' TPLF-led government. So you are living in complete denial and submissive manner. We Ethiopians and the international community have already come to understantd how the international aid is being abused by Meles and his cronnies. Stop arguing for Meles. Rather, stand by the Ethiopian people. It is better for you to be a spokesperson for the Ethiopian parliament (replacing Abadulla) than being a development secretary. I am deeply saddened by you responses to HRW.

I, Dr. mohamed knows that ethiopia uses as weapon Aids from DFID-UK because ethiopia and some high level officials of DFID have shares for that aids.

I am concludling my view of comment if the secretary telling true must obey that ethiopia allows an international human right investagators .
the answer is NO, ethiopia cannot allow nor DFID allows.

@ahmed,
first read all the comments very well; before you say somthing, it is like you jump on pc and say something without even reading it. otherwise your point that andrew was defending the evil regiem in addis is true and that is what i said too!!

@ Tplf Girma G; Helen; dave, din; ageazi; Sam; brook; Tedi; africa; miki; Thomas; Addis; bibi

you just echo your boss propaganda, redwan, who define you every saturday, suday and weak days using the screens on every schools. it was suppossed to teach ethiopian children but ethiopians know that the screens are used by EPRDF to define its cardes in kebel, subcities and admisntartion offices that.

mitchell,sounds like an idiot ,when he bluntly lies about the british aid investigation. did he investigate
the food aid equaly distributed in OGADEN, southern oromia?
The farmers are clearly and fearlesly
spoke that fertlizers and food aids are only for those who became memeber
and has memeber ship card. what do you expect from amen or women that his/her children are about to die? ethiopian people are forced to take memeber ship of the tplf led stoogy
party systematicly by food aid ,fertilizers, and foriegen gifts
for developiment.
metchelle, lied about aids doesnt go
through tplf government . why he didn
t told us british people are distribu
ting the aid if so how were the ogadens served right? he forgot or lied to us that roads to ogaden are opened.

I am from Ethiopia and I witnessed the brutal tactics by the EPRDF regime to silence the opposition and their supporters. If Ethiopia is not hidden something why they are not letting international media to base in the cities like Jigjiga

@African Human Rights & #@ True

do not full yourself!!!!!! you know the true nature of the EPRDF regiem that it is totalytrian and tyrant. if you have doubt about it the only thing i ask you is just stand up and crticize a single policy of the regiem. the next day you will find your self in prision!!! and if you know the truth do not try to creat comferte zone by blamming HRW. HRW reports what it finds out in its assessemnts. the entire ethiopian people will echo the same frustration, had there been fredom of expression in ethiopia! if you can leave like animal with out demanding freedom and democracy then it is your choice but do not speak asif you represnt the true voice of the frustrated 84 million ethiopian people!! here is the truth: ethiopian's are tired of dictatorship, ethiopian's are tired of ethnocentric aphartide, ethiopians are tired of poverty and hunger, ethiopians are tired of grand scale corruption and capital flight, ethiopians are frustrated from waiting for 20 years for democracy, ethiopians are tired of a regiem that sales its tertory to sudan and ertiria, ethiopians are tired of unemployemnt, ethiopians are tired of the eprdf's toy parlament, ethiopians are sicken tired of an evil act of the regiem to supress disent, ethiopians are tired of EPRDF!! and ethiopians demand power back from EPRDF!!

What a pity? the 'Human Rights Watch'is insisting to be more catholic than the pope. The Department for International Development has confirmed from concrete facts on the ground that no aid is misused by the Ethiopian Government. What else evidence does it require the approval is not from the Ethiopian government it is from the donor itself. I thing the HRW is not ready to accept facts unless the international community accepts every allegation as a true story. HRW needs behavioural change.

What a pity to HRW. We know that the Ethiopian government has, with all good intentions, poor administration record on all matters, including distribution of aid. Apart from this, I have no doubt in my mind, with all my resentments to the system, that it can use aid as a political tool. HRW, please try to be logical and argue based on fact. Generalization and insistence based on some incidents which might show violations. Also as correctly said, HRW has said no more serious things on the Arabs, who are thinking to give women the right to vote yet.

@african & true

souvernighty can not be used to suppers dissent oppostion in ethiopia. ur boss pays you 3000 per month and asks you to defind its insane act and you do that without questining your mind even once!!!! he keeps on robing billions from ethiopia by using you. do not think with your belly, atleast for the sake of truth and for the sake of your human dignity speak the truth; or reamin silent if you think your belly weighs morethan the truth. otherwise do not decive yourself. all ethiopians know the nature of EPRDF that it is an axis of evil! so if you can please oppose the regiem otherwise do not speak for your belly!!!!!!!!! andrew mitchel is working to seucre the interst of his country. but this could have been much done better had he side along ethiopian people. i am loosing my respect for andrew and it is not only from me but also the entire ethiopian people are lossing faith on andrew for he is being a tool of EPRDF to supress ethiopians. but for you beloved ethiopian brothers and sister please think and try to leave by and for the truth.

Go olf+Onlf+G7=Ethiopia (A)
tplf+eprdf= Apartheid, social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by Tigris minority governments in Ethiopia from 1991 to today.(b)

(A)> (b)
(A) Better than (b)
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