Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Cedar Revolution: "Most troubling of all, the mission [in Beirut] says it has been sending a record number of corpses back to Ethiopia. The consulate estimates that 150 women have died in a little more than a year, and there is no accountability. In one recent case, Mekdes Tesfaye Tefera's corpse was found with a noose around her neck. But the consulate has doubts that this was a self-inflicted death and has filed a police report. "They always say, 'she killed herself,'" the social affairs officer said."