I'm also curious about Late Victorian Holocausts, but lately I've been having hours-in-the-day problems.
I think that I've told the story somewhere about working the State Department's Africa human rights desk in the summer of 2000, during the Ethiopia-Eritrea War. We came across the final report by a series of agronomists from the University of Michigan who had been studying food-aid targeting in Ethiopia. Said report put together all of their earlier reports from different regions, which the Ethiopian government had signed off on; and when they were put together, it was an open-and-shut case that the government had systematically been diverting food aid toward its Tigray and (less so) Amhara supporters and depriving the rest of the country of the same. (The Michigan team was apparently expelled from the country a week after they submitted the report.) But do you think that such facts had any impact on our policy, which was to treat the two countries exactly the same, even though all the evidence pointed to the Ethiopians doing far more brutal things? Oh ho ho ho ho ho...
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I think that I've told the story somewhere about working the State Department's Africa human rights desk in the summer of 2000, during the Ethiopia-Eritrea War. We came across the final report by a series of agronomists from the University of Michigan who had been studying food-aid targeting in Ethiopia. Said report put together all of their earlier reports from different regions, which the Ethiopian government had signed off on; and when they were put together, it was an open-and-shut case that the government had systematically been diverting food aid toward its Tigray and (less so) Amhara supporters and depriving the rest of the country of the same. (The Michigan team was apparently expelled from the country a week after they submitted the report.) But do you think that such facts had any impact on our policy, which was to treat the two countries exactly the same, even though all the evidence pointed to the Ethiopians doing far more brutal things? Oh ho ho ho ho ho...