President. this report constrasts sharply with numerous other reports we have received in the West indicating that the Marxist Ethiopian Government has cruelly used food as bait to lure peasants out of the faminestricken northern provinces and as a weapon against antigovernment resistance forces. According to one report by a French medical group. Medecins San Frontiers. 100.000 people have died as a result of Mengistus forced resettlements and villagization campaigns. Mr. Yonas Deressa. an Ethiopian himself and the president of the Ethiopian Refugees Education and Relief Foundation. has written a detailed rebuttal to the abovementioned report entitled. "Ethiopia and the Sudan One Year Later: The True Story." Mr. Deressa states that the authors of the previous report "relied heavily on information provided by the Communist rulers of Ethiopia." thereby deeply compromising the reports reliability. Mr.
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