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BBC Apologizes Over Erroneous Live Aid Weapons Story

(Nov. 4) -- The BBC has been forced to issue an apology for alleging in a succession of reports that millions of dollars raised by the 1985 Live Aid concerts were used to buy arms, instead of feeding the victims of famine in Ethiopia. The British broadcaster said sorry to Irish rocker Bob Geldof, one of the event's...

Live Aid Famine Cash Bought Guns, Not Grain

LONDON (March 3) -- Amid an ongoing global effort to raise funds for earthquake-stricken Haiti, new allegations surfaced today that millions of dollars raised by the 1985 Live Aid concerts for the victims of the Ethiopian famine were actually spent on weapons. The charges offer a timely reminder that collecting money is...

Tigray Peoples Liberation Front News From the Web

05/25/11 "Beka!" ("enough"). Will Ethiopia be next?, RenÃ©... Source: openDemocracy Meles Zenawi has been protecting himself from any Arab-spring copy-cat movements in Ethiopia.
12/08/10 [dehai-news] (ER) The death of Greater Tigray... Source: Dehai in 1976, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (Woyanne) that is currently ruling Ethiopia crafted its Greater Tigray Manifesto.
11/08/10 BBC aid-for-arms story very damaging aid agency Source: AlertNet It started as a plug on BBC On-Line for a World Service radio programme.
11/04/10 BBC runs apologies to Bob Geldof and Band Aid Source: Hot Momma Gossip The BBC network is in major apology mode after they reported earlier this year that millions of pounds raised by Band Aid and Live Aid for famine relief in Ethiopia had been diverted by a rebel group to buy weapons.

Background on Tigray Peoples Liberation Front

The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), known more commonly and sometimes pejoratively in Ethiopia as Woyane or Weyane (Ge'ez: ሕዝባዊ ወያኔ ሓርነት ትግራይ, Tigrinya: ḥizbāwī weyānē ḥārinet tigrāy, "Popular revolution (for) the freedom of Tigray") is a political party in Ethiopia.

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