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@Rothmus · Aug 4, 2026
$95 million of the Live Aid concert money in 1985 meant for starving Ethiopians bought guns for the Marxist factions fighting each other.
This was the finding of a BBC investigation years after Bob Geldof’s concert raised over $125 million when the world saw the famine that
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Aug 3, 2026Forced resettlement of famine victims under Ethiopia’s communist Derg killed between 50,000 and 100,000 people.
The program ran parallel to the forced villagization drive that herded 4.6 million farmers into planned settlements by 1986.
Mengistu’s regime had already launched
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