Ethiopian troops are in the oil rich, contested Sudanese Abyei region in accordance with a new U.N. Security Council resolution invoking sovereign nations' "responsibility to protect" vulnerable populations from genocide and mass atrocities if their own governments aren't protecting them. But human rights investigators say that the Security Council is ignoring Ethiopia's own genocide in the Ogaden Basin, and that the West is funding it. |
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)