Internal Displacement and Forced Exile (in Ethiopia)

SOCEPP has received reliable reports both from Gondar and Khartoum that more and more Welkait locals have been internally displaced to Gondar and forced into exile into the Sudan. Immigration officers in Khartoum report an increasing number of Welkait refugees crossing into the Sudan. Most are farmers whose lands have been taken over by the ruling regime’s agro industrial companies and by Tigrean settlers. This is yet another gross violation of rights by the Meles Zenawi regime and SOCEPP condemns it with vigor.  Read More…