During his first press conference since the G20 photo-op trip to London, Mr. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has admitted to exporting grains from a country that has close to 12,000,000 of its population surviving under severe need of humanitarian food aid (according to OCHA-Ethiopia - mid-February 2009 report). The report also indicates that 4,900,000 people require emergency food assistance.
As declared by Mandela and his Elders group in 2008, the right to food is “fundamental.” Scheming (through exports, debts and land leases) to deprive 12,000,000 people of the right to food is a crime against humanity, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should do its job and bring Zenawi and his collaborators to justice.
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