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Death Aid?

Writing in Prospect, David Rieff argues that Bob Geldof's Live Aid may have done more harm than good in its response to Ethiopian famine in 1985:

The truth is that the Dergue's resettlement policy -- of moving 600,000 people from the north while enforcing the "villagisation" of 3m others -- was at least in part a military campaign, masquerading as a humanitarian effort. And it was assisted by western aid money.

Whole thing here.

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