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of 122 to 5, the UN General Assembly, "the conscience of the world," backed the committee and
approved the appropriation.
Richard Nygard, U.S. Representative to the UN, noted that the $73.5 million could have inoculated one
million Ethiopian children, built 25,000 wells and pumps for 12.5 million people, and fed 125,000
Ethiopian families for a year with enough left over to supply all 1985 cereal imports for drought-stricken
Chad.5 The $73.5 million for improving the conference facilities, however, was a pittance compared to
the big-time sums Mengistu customarily obtained from the World Bank.
The World Bank, wrote author/researcher James Bovard in 1987, "helped to lay the groundwork for the
Ethiopian government’s current murderous resettlement program." In The World Bank vs. the World’s
Poor, a scorching indictment of bank’s lending record, published by the Washington DC-based Cato
Institute, Bovard noted that because of government policies, thousands of Ethiopians "are being kept in
concentration-camp-type facilities, where death rates are reported to be quite high."6 In 1986, human
rights groups began to point to UN backing of the murderous regime. The influential British Economist
"cited Ethiopia for the worst human rights record in the world." Yet, said Bovard, "Throughout this
period, the bank has provided large amounts of aid to the Mengistu regime."7
Other UN agencies and officials performed in the same criminally callous manner. Perhaps one of the
worst examples involves Edouard Saouma, Director General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) since the late 1960s. According to other FAO officials and the former
commissioner of the Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation agency, Saouma held up emergency food aid
for 20 days in 1984, at the height of the famine, because of a personal dislike for Tessema Negash, an
Ethiopian FAO official.
Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Dawit Wolde-Giorgis has described his meeting in
1984 with the intractable Saouma:
I went [to FAO headquarters in Rome] and tried to brief [Saouma] on what was going on in
Ethiopia.... He interrupted the discussion and told me that our representative was not a very
likeable person ... that it would be very difficult for him to co-operate ... as long as we had
Tessema Negash as our FAO representative.... There I was trying to brief a senior UN
official about the impending disaster and the number of people dying every day and I was
confronted with personal problems ... that was sickening.8
This was not the only indictment of UN official Saouma. Throughout the famine years, it is charged,
Saouma also carried on a long-running battle with the Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP)
over which of them had authority over food aid shipments.9 Was Mr. Saouma disciplined, reprimanded,
or even investigated as a result of these serious charges To the contrary, in 1987 he was given another
six-year claim on his posh post, along with the usual automatic UN pay raise.
Occasionally, embarrassing publicity will result in a modicum of justice. As, for instance, in the case of
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Jean-Pierre Hocke. Hocke, a Swiss citizen, resigned in October
1989 after a scandal erupted over his misuse of tens of thousands of dollars annually for personal
expenses from a fund established to educate refugees. According to the New York Times, Hocke
misappropriated the money from
... a fund set up by Nordic countries for refugee education to pay for entertainment and firstclass
air travel, sometimes aboard the Concorde, for himself and his wife.... Mr. Hocke
spent between $32,000 and $96,000 a year from Denmark’s contribution on his