Aside from its reliance on anonymous witnesses, and its dateline Rwanda, the Washington Post story failed to mention that the top ten contributors of UN peacekeeping troops include infamous human rights abusers Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Nepal, Egypt and Indonesia. Ethiopia, where the six percent Tigrean minority rules with an iron fist, is the top contributor of UN peacekeeping troops, with 8,333 peacekeepers deployed, seven times more than Burundi.

Washington D.C.-based Ethiopian human rights activist Obang Metho, founder of theSolidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia, says that Ethiopia escapes criticism by serving the West.”The Ethiopian government – the ruling ethnic minority regime that terrorizes its own people – they are not being criticized because they are the darling of the West. They’re pretty much that from Bush till Obama. Anything that the West will ask of them, they will do that.”

Metho also calls Ethiopia an ethnic apartheid regime. "Ethiopians call it not only an ethnic minority group. People also call it an ethnic apartheid group, because it’s almost like the way it was in South Africa and other countries. This tiny ethnic group, they control the security, the intelligence, the economy – almost every sector – and then they use it to divide and conquer, to divide one ethnic group against the other.”

The U.S. has never called on Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome or his predecessor Meles Zenawi to step down, as they have Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza. National Security Council Advisor and Former UN AmbassadorSusan Ricegave a15 minutetribute to Zenawi at his funeral.

Source-Center for Research on Globalization