Is there land grab in Ethiopia?
If land is belong to the state legally, why you think the government is grabing land?
I know farmers are givern right of ownership and they are compenseted for what ever they give away permanently be to pirivate or public. Where did you got the pherase "land grub" BBC?
I think there is no need for the state to grab land. This is not Rewand but Erhiopia where land is plenty.

Is there land grab in Ethiopia?

If land is belong to the state legally, why you think the government is grabing land?
I know farmers are givern right of ownership and they are compenseted for what ever they give away permanently be to pirivate or public. Where did you got the pherase "land grub" BBC?
I think there is no need for the state to grab land. This is not Rewand but Erhiopia where land is plenty.

Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make fertile land available for foreign investment in agriculture--aggravating current hunger while laying the groundwork for future famine in Ethiopia, as people are losing their livelihoods and being moved to areas where they cannot readily feed

This is what bbc claims. We herd their side story long a go. What do you think yourself.

Is there land grab in Ethiopia?

If land is belong to the state legally, why you think the government is grabing land?
I know farmers are givern right of ownership and they are compenseted for what ever they give away permanently be to pirivate or public. Where did you got the pherase "land grub" BBC?
I think there is no need for the state to grab land. This is not Rewand but Erhiopia where land is plenty.

Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make fertile land available for foreign investment in agriculture--aggravating current hunger while laying the groundwork for future famine in Ethiopia, as people are losing their livelihoods and being moved to areas where they cannot readily feed

A woyane who has adopted a village mentality since birth can never comprehend the idea of nationhood beyond Tigray's provincial borders, hence unless he sees land-grabbing occurring in his little village in Tigray, he will never be convinced that such practice is taking place in other parts of the country, let alone know that a country called Ethiopia exists. If I'm not mistaken, it's called the Abay Tigray syndrome.

This is what bbc claims. We herd their side story long a go. What do you think yourself.

Bwendimu,

That is not what BBC claimed. What BBC did was show how the people feel. You heard it directly from the people. What more evidence do you need? Here: Have you seen this?

An attack by gunmen on a public bus in western Ethiopia has left 19 people dead and eight others injured, an official said Tuesday.

"The attack took place yesterday (Monday) around 2 pm.... I suspect it was an anti-peace element we consider as rebels," regional president Omot Odeng Olol told AFP.

Omot said the suspected rebels armed with machine guns stole money and clothes from the passengers before opening fire on them.

He said the gunmen have not yet been caught.

"We deployed a number of forces and we are still looking, and they are not yet caught," he said, adding that he does not expect tha assaillants to launch further attacks in the area as security has been beefed up since Monday.

Omot said when police arrived at the scene bodies were strewn on the ground as the injured were taken to a nearby hospital. "That kind of thing is the very worst you can imagine," he said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ethiopia's Gambella region, which lies some 700 kilometres (430 miles) to the west of the capital Addis Ababa, is one of the most fertile and resource-rich areas of the country.

In January the US-based Human Rights Watch accused Addis Ababa of forcing thousands of villagers from their land to make way for commercial farming developments, leaving people impoverished and hungry.

At least 3.6 million hectares (8.8 million acres) -- an area larger than the Netherlands -- has been leased to foreign and state-owned firms since 2008, with state security using force to drive people from off their land, HRW said.