Ethiopian charity scam

Ethiopian charity scam. Millions of dollars in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation finds. Former rebel leaders told the BBC that they posed as merchants in meetings with charity workers to get aid money. They used the cash to fund attempts to overthrow the government of the time. One rebel leader estimated $95m (£63m) - from Western governments and charities including Band Aid - was channelled into the rebel fight. The CIA, in a 1985 assessment entitled Ethiopia: Political and Security Impact of the Drought, also alleged aid money was being misused. Its report concluded: "Some funds that insurgent organisations are raising for relief operations, as a result of increased world publicity, are almost certainly being diverted for military purposes." Bob Geldof was sure the Band Aid money went to the charity so even he can be fooled - but then why should he worry, he got an honourary knighthood as his reward! PUBLIC DOMAIN News Item.

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• Ethiopian
• charity
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[Habehsa4u]

I hate it all please lets try think about future Ethiopia.not the past thing...!

[clitmint]

I remember seeing a charity worker on TV years ago who was literally just one of the volinteers, now she appears to be very wealthy, in fact she was being driven in a maybach and dressed like a politician with what looks like expensive gold jewlery on.

It leads me to wonder just how much money has been "diverted" from our charity donations over all these years and i will bet good money that the people working in the charities like the people who run them, are taking it for themselves.

[ieatporkpies]

Who pays the charity workers? Who pays the people who take the money to them? Who pays for the adverts?

Charities are all SCAMS.

[PringlesJingles]

@PringlesJingles And notice, we don't even *see* the "former commander". It could be a computerised damn voice for all we know. Hack journalism at it's worst. Even Hot Metal couldn't top it.

[SovereignBeing]

@tothatextent well said my friend and actually cancer charities spend the donations on creating yet more deadly diseases to lessen the population!!

When will humanity stop paying for its own demise..!?

[tothatextent]

When are people going to wake up? All charities are scams.