Tuesday, September 22, 2009

TPLF racks up $100-million/year from adoptions of Oromia/South children

This is a video from Australia’s ABC - a documentary that reveals the exploitation of helpless children and their parents under the regime of Meles Zenawi. The TPLF government racks up $100-million per year from international adoptions (which some call ‘harvesting‘) of children, mostly from the Oromia and the South States.

ABC - Since Angelina Jolie adopted her daughter Zahara in 2005, the number of Americans adopting Ethiopian children has quadrupled.

A pop-media obsession with celebrities adopting children in Africa has resulted in a queue of adopting foreigners dealing with opportunistic adoption agents in operating in a regulatory vaccuum. In Ethiopia - and beyond - its creating a heartbreaking mess.

International adoptions may seem like an ideal solution to the dreadful deprivation among the young in Ethiopia and the often impossible circumstances confronting parents trying to feed and raise their children.

The reality though, is far from ideal READ MORE.

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