In the face of evidence, the UK and US continue to deny systematic human rights abuses are occurring in the Lower Omo as thousands are displaced for an irrigation scheme. The US-based think tank, the Oakland Institute, recently accused the UK and US governments of aiding and abetting the eviction of thousands of people from their land in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley…
http://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/22766-aiding-and-abetting-uk-and-u-s-complicity-in-ethiopia-s-mass-displacement
Members of the Nyangatom, one of the communities affected by the project, loading donkeys by the river.