A few kilometers before the village of Ilya, in western Ethiopia, the forest abruptly gives way to a tortured landscape where knocked down stumps and grassy islands emerge in the middle of broad savage cuts to the rich black soil stripped by clearing operations. “Welcome to the 100,000 hectare Karuturi farm,” says the sign planted along the trail.
Since the 2005 elections in Ethiopia, open dissent towards the government and its policies is increasingly not tolerated. In November 2010, the UN’s Committee Against Torture expressed serious concerns about “numerous, ongoing and consistent allegations concerning the routine use of torture.
The leaders in the EPRP organization who authorized the scanning and posting of the book published by Tsehai Publishers on debtraw.com committed an act that was illegal, unethical, and imprudent. To my mind, that marks it as “un-Ethiopian.”
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