Elizabeth Blunt’s Lopsided BBC News from Addis Ababa
Sudan Tribune, Sudan - August 17, 2007
I always read Elizabeth Blunt’s BBC news from Finfinne, which lacks professionalism and objectivity. But I was shocked when I read her headline, ‘Ethiopia New Year terror thwarted’, published on BBC website news on 15 August 2007. I was shocked because Elizabeth’s sources were only from the ruling tyrannical Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Party officials as usual. I was also shocked as I know that thousands of people are arbitrarily being jailed for being Oromo, which is enough reason to qualify them to be threats to the government. As always Elizabeth’s news was not different from what the government Television and Radio (ETV and Ethiopia Radio) tell us when they want to campaign to eliminate civilians who they consider threats in the name of the opposition Oromo Liberation Front or any opposition for that matter. They call this civilians and oppositions ‘terrorists’. Surprisingly, Elizabeth subscribed to the same propaganda of calling opposition groups and civilians ‘terrorists’ that the government uses as its currency with the West ...