The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
2 July 2008
Ethiopia should immediately abandon plans to impose strict government controls and "draconian" criminal penalties on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), rights groups said on Tuesday, calling on donor governments to speak out publicly against the "de facto criminalization" of most of activities in the country.
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it is an unjust excecise of unlimited power against basic human rights. The government ,abusive as it is, is to take a huge step backward by introducing a new system through which it limits and dictates steps of NGO's. it will simply put everything they do in the hands of the govenment paving the way for worse consequences of course. It would rather blow the light out only to deepen the problems and flexing the government's muscle crashing democracy and human rights.it would make it almost impossible for the target organizations to operate under such situations.