Part 1:
http://www.ethiotube.net/video/15387/EthiopiaFirst-Presents--Ben-disputes-BBCs-recent-investigative-report-on-Southern-Ethiopia--Part-1-of-2

Part 2:
http://www.ethiotube.net/video/15389/EthiopiaFirst-Presents--Ben-disputes-BBCs-recent-investigative-report-on-Southern-Ethiopia--Part-2-of-2

Summary:
BBC recently made a report that the government are denying opposition "districts" food assistance and this reportage contradicts this. Part 2 is especially interesting.

Are these farmers denying the report now out of fear? Don't know what to believe, this is crazy.

That Dr. Beyene Petros has some explaining to do. Even his family is saying he knows that it doesn't happen; that lady even keeps saying wushet new. That's a direct contradiction of what he's claiming. What language is it they're speaking? I think I read Hadiya at some point.

The man who said he was never asked what his wife died of really floored me. So the BBC invented the death from hunger?? He's saying she died from shock when they told her they had to cut off her hand due to cancer.

The truth is murky. That's the problem in Ethiopia; the BBC has a very clear anti-Ethiopia (or is it anti-Meles?) bias; EthiopiaFirst tends to have a pro-Meles angle. So who do you trust?

Ben lives Ahadu's wet dream when it comes to getting down on his knees for Meles.

If he wasn't so utterly pretentious, I could stand listening to his seemingly benign bias.



But that's the nature of Ethiopia for you, where nuance has no place and polar extremity is the rule of the game.

Of course these people are denying out of pure fear, what else. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were threatened with reprisal if they didn’t change their tune. This is the cheap propaganda which will never repair the damage done by the BBC.

He should have interviewed those women and men in refugee camps in Kenya about the situation in Ethiopia, they wouldn’t have been scared and would have utter truth and expose the government even some more.

You can't even understand Amharic. GTFOH.

You can't even understand Amharic. GTFOH.

And thank Allah for that,

But you can obviously tell by the body language and the report method. This guy was there to disapprove the claims and he adventured back to the same village and was there to expose the truth.

This is propaganda at its finest, especially with the part of him reporting and food AID behind him, :lol: Classless

The truth has already been exposed; the BBC report was just the latest in hundreds if not thousands of human rights abuses and political oppression occurring in Ethiopia. Their latest report was already well known to many followers of Ethiopia’s political situation. Food aid has and always been used a political tool in Ethiopia since it’s creation.

The damage has already been done and this fake attempt in investigative journalism has only worsened the situation and embarrassed the government even more.

The BBC lied or exaggerated or used poor people to make their point. The BBC lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies and then tells a little truth.

Since when there is an independent investigative report, without the knowledge of the ruling party TPLF? TPLF knows every move of this guy and he is very well connected with EPRDF.

Nothing new here! POLITICS :ohno: