一个国际人权组织批评埃塞俄比亚移民安置计划，称政府强迫人们搬迁，并没有提供足够的支持。总部位于纽约的人权观察在星期二公布的报告中说，埃塞俄比亚要西部甘贝拉地区的7万名原住民搬迁到新的村庄，但没有提供足够的粮食、耕地、医疗保健或教育设施。
报告说，为期三年的计划将搬迁4万5000户，但安置村庄的耕地不适合耕种，政府未能提供种子或化肥。人权观察呼吁暂停这一计划。埃塞俄比亚联邦事务部长希费劳.特克勒-马里亚姆说，报告中的指控是“彻头彻尾的捏造”。他说，安置计划是自愿参与的，并且取得了成功。
An international human rights group has criticized Ethiopia for a resettlement program, saying the government is forcing people to relocate and not providing adequate support. New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday that Ethiopia is requiring 70,000 indigenous people from the western Gambella region to move to new villages without enough food, farmland, health care or education facilities.
The report says the three-year program to relocate 45,000 households has placed people in villages where farmland is not ready for growing, while the government has failed to provide seeds or fertilizer. Human Rights Watch called for the program to be suspended.Ethiopia's Minister of Federal Affairs Shiferaw Teklemariam said in a letter responding to the report that the allegations are "downright fabrications." He said the resettlements are voluntary, and have been a success.
