The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1987 (10. évfolyam, 2-6. szám)

1987-05-01 / 3. szám

Resettlement of Ethiopians Condemned Zimbabwe’s Sunday Mail newspaper recently published an article condemning the forced resettle­ment of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. It said: "...a plan to forcibly resettle one and a half million Ethiopeans from the northern high­lands to the southern lowlands has already taken a devastating toll on the environment of the entire region. “To settle the 800,000 moved so far and the 700,000 still to come, most of Ethiopia’s remaining forests are being cleared, robbing that country of precious fuel and fodder. “But the devastation is not limited to Ethiopia, because with deforestation comes the loss of opsoil. his most precious of resources is now washing off Ethiopian land and entering the Blue Nile River system at an alarming rate. When the topsoil arrives downstream in equally poor Sudan, it wreaks havoc: the silt fills reservoirs intended for hydroelectric production and water distribution, cutting power production for cities and irrigation for the rural areas. “The ecological catastrophe doesn’t end when the resettlement is completed, and neither does the human catastrophe." The article quoted a Michigan University bio­logist, Sandra Steingraber: “The 800,000 Ethiopians forcibly taken from their northern highlands to the southern lowlands are undergoing a debilitating ’ecological shock.’ “The expertise these farmers have developed over their lifetimes — what to plant, when to plant, cultivate and harvest — is completely bound up in a particular ecology... and becomes almost useless in another.” The article continued: “The result, she found, was to instantly transform skilled farmers into unskilled, ignorant labourers, unable to produce enough to survive. “Estimates, now thought to be conservative, place the number dead from the resettlement ! programme at between 50,000 and 100,000. “Yet the country is planning to proceed with its even larger programme to resettle 23 million peasant farmers into government-built villages.” The article was written by Patricia Adams for Third World Network Features. 12 JUd ts the GJhWick in OieecL is a Catholic international charitable organisation. 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'Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllll!lll!ll!llll!llllll!ill!:lll!lli:ill!lllllll:ll!l!ll!ll!!lll!lll!lllilllilllf GLIDED TO FREEDOM A Czech, aged 39, recently flew across the West German frontier on a motorised hang­­glider which he had made himself. He left Domazlice, in Czechoslovakia, and landed an hour later in Bavaria. He flew low to avoid detection by Czechoslovak radar. MAY-JUNE, 1987

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