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Book Links W.H.O. Chief to Ethiopian Killings.
New novel exposes World Health Organization Director-General’s
role in crimes against humanity by former Ethiopian dictatorship
By: Free Planet Publishing
NEW YORK – February 19, 2020 - PRLog – A couple of sentences in the afterword of a novel about Ethiopia's democracy revolution have added fresh charges to the debate over the qualifications of World Health Organization’s Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhenom
Gebreyesus.
The novel, titled Money, Blood and Conscience, tells the story of an American television producer's love affair with an Ethiopian guerrilla during Ethiopia’s recently deposed dictatorship. In a nonfiction postscript, the author, David Steinman, charges the Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom, with shared responsibility for that dictatorship’s crimes against humanity.
Prior to his 2017 election to head the W.H.O., Tedros, who goes by his forename, was from 2012 to 2016 Ethiopia’s foreign minister and fourth highest official. Tedros also was one of eleven members of the all-powerful Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, politburo which ruled the country in authoritarian style.
Serious human rights violations committed by the Ethiopian government in that period included mass murder, enforced disappearances, torture, and the harsh imprisonment of tens of thousands of political prisoners including children.
Examples of abuses, cited by Amnesty International, which occurred during Tedros’ government service include:
A teacher was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet during torture in detention because he refused to teach propaganda about the ruling party to his students.
A young girl had hot coals poured on her stomach while she was detained in a military camp because her father was suspected of supporting an opposition group.
A student was tied in contorted positions and suspended from the wall by one wrist because a business plan he prepared for a university competition was deemed to be underpinned by political motivations.
Past detainees from that era tell of beatings, electric shocks, mock execution, burning with heated metal or molten plastic and rape, including gang rape.
The Ethiopian government acknowledged last August that political prisoners were placed in cells with lions, hyenas and leopards while Tedros was a senior official.
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