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Ethiopia's Response to Human Rights Watch's latest report |
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Human Rights Watch's latest report: a political agenda It should be no secret that Ethiopia regards Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports on Ethiopia with concern. HRW has demonstrated, over several years, clear evidence of deliberate bias and numerous errors of fact. Ethiopia has raised questions about HRW's coverage a number of times. It has had no satisfactory response, nor indeed any response at all. HRW's latest report - Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Ogaden Area of Ethiopia's Somali Regional State - demonstrates exactly why Ethiopia has consistently complained about HRW's aims and intentions: the display of a political rather than a human rights focus, the seemingly deliberate lack of balance, the extensive lack of background knowledge and of present circumstances as well as numerous inaccuracies, and the failure to investigate the interests and affiliations of its entirely external sources. |
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