*...Protesters fear the new plan would facilitate the eviction of - TopicsExpress



          

*...Protesters fear the new plan would facilitate the eviction of thousands of farmers from their ancestral lands without proper compensation — an unjust process that has been happening since the city’s founding a century ago. Their land would be sold at dirt-cheap prices to foreign and domestic investors, exacerbating the country’s growing income inequality and diluting the Oromo national identity. In addition, the plan would condemn the Oromo, Ethiopia’s single largest ethnic group, to being an agrarian population in a fast-urbanizing country and balkanize their homeland into an eastern and western half — in a manner reminiscent of occupied Palestinian territories — leaving the state of Oromia with only nominal control.* america.aljazeera/opinions/2014/5/john-kerry-ethiopiaaddisababaoromostudentprotestspressfreedom.html
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 09:13:25 +0000

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