Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s ‘Bulldozer’ Government Arrests 100 Tribal People Over Dam

Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s ‘Bulldozer’ Government Arrests 100 Tribal People Over Dam   Survival International has received reports that around one hundred Ethiopian tribespeople have been arrested and jailed for opposing Ethiopia’s controversial Gibe III dam.   Plans for the dam and irrigated land plantations nearby are gathering pace, along with rising repression and intimidation to any opposition.   A policeman reportedly told one indigenous community that the government was, ‘like a bulldozer,...

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