Human rights violations and deteriorating security threaten indigenous peoples in Ethiopia
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/20433
The security and safety of the local population in Gambela and the environment and wild life in the indigenous peoples territories of Ethiopia has been a critical concerns for both local and international campaigners across the globe. Cultural Survival, an organisation working to defend the rights indigenous people issued numerous alerts (“Land Grabbing” in Ethiopia: Soldiers Poisoning Water Sources, Forcing Thousands off Ancestral Lands and Killing Wildlife, Violence Surges in Gambela) and Rivers International (Gibe III Dam Fuels Land Grabs in Ethiopia Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam: Sowing Hunger and Conflict) among others have warned international organisations, donor countries and nongovernmental organisations to pay attention to the escalating and aggravating situation in indigenous peoples territories in Ethiopia and the region.