Crackdown in Ethiopia condemned
BBC Afrique, UK - July 4, 2007
Ethiopia's government has been accused of forcing thousands of civilians from their homes in a campaign against separatist rebels in the south-east.
US-based Human Rights Watch says troops had burned homes, seized livestock and carried out arbitrary arrests.
The group also accused the rebels of targeting officials and clan leaders who failed to support its insurgency.
Security was stepped up in April in the remote Somalia region after a deadly rebel raid on a Chinese-run oil field.