Ethiopia denies student massacre accusation

JOHN O’SHEA’S article (‘Giving money to kleptocrats will not help the poor,’ Irish Examiner, June 16) is not only unfair but inaccurate.

Fri, 24 Jun, 2005 - 01:00

The Ethiopian army did not massacre 200 protesting students last year, either at an Ethiopian university campus or anywhere else for that matter.

Mr O’Shea also says “there is no accountability and conditionality attached when we are working with the governments of the Third World”.

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