- Opinion: Why BBC Hammers Zimbabwe over Cholera, Ever Silent on Oromia Repression?

Opinion: Why BBC Hammers Zimbabwe over Cholera, Ever Silent on Oromia Repression?

By Qeerransoo Biyyaa

Dec 25, 2008 - Media such as the BBC and CNN were prohibited from filming in Zimbabwe, but they use their financial power to pay for locals to smuggle footages into South Africa, and then they report it from the other side of the border. Why did these media fail to expose the Darfur-like violence perpetrated by the Ethiopian government in Oromia?

Mugabe is foolish! If Mugabe had been wise, he would have just sent some troops to Somalia in the year 2006 to fight the Union of Islamic Forces, which could have ultimately won him a free pass in these troubled cholera and hyperinflation times. His nation is mocked as a country of poor billionaires and he is held responsible for the doom. But 'wise' dictators like Zenawi, who went down to Somalia and made friends in high places, always escape the scrutiny of the western media, although the scale of the problem is worse in Oromia, Ogadenia and other oppressed regions in Ethiopia. Read More.