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Tadros is the first African and non-medical doctor to head the WHO. Tadros Adhamon holds a PhD in [[community organizing]]. In the Ethiopian tradition, he likes to be called by his first name, Tadros, sometimes spelled Tedros.

Tadros is the first African and non-medical doctor to head the WHO. Tadros Adhamon holds a PhD in [[community organizing]]. In the Ethiopian tradition, he likes to be called by his first name, Tadros, sometimes spelled Tedros.

==TPLF terrorist organization==

===TPLF terrorist organization===

The Tigray ethnic minority represent only 6% of the population of Ethiopia.  Tadros, who hails from the Tigray, was a high ranking member of the Central Committee.<ref>http://www.tigraionline.com/cctplf.html</ref> The TPLF was listed as a terrorist organisation by the [[U.S. State Department]] in the 1990s, and is still listed as one by the Global Terror Database.<ref>https://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/tigray-peoples-liberation-front-tplf</ref>

The Tigray ethnic minority represent only 6% of the population of Ethiopia.  Tadros, who hails from the Tigray, was a high ranking member of the Central Committee.<ref>http://www.tigraionline.com/cctplf.html</ref> The TPLF was listed as a terrorist organisation by the [[U.S. State Department]] in the 1990s, and is still listed as one by the Global Terror Database.<ref>https://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/tigray-peoples-liberation-front-tplf</ref>

Humans Rights Watch wrote a report in 2010 on how aid in the form of food and fertilizer was withheld from local Amhara villagers because of their affiliations with the opposition party. Other forms of aid denial involved the refusal of emergency healthcare by ministry of health which, at the time, was led by one Tedros Adhanom.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/10/19/ethiopia-donor-aid-supports-repression</ref>  The Amhara People’s Union, an activist group based in [[Washington, D.C.]], issued many other accusations of human rights abuses against the TPLF led government.<ref>https://ecadforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/APU_opposes_candidacy_of_Dr_TAG.pdf?x35370</ref>  They noted at a session in Ethiopian parliament that around 2 million Amhara were found to have “disappeared” from the population census.

Humans Rights Watch wrote a report in 2010 on how aid in the form of food and fertilizer was withheld from local Amhara villagers because of their affiliations with the opposition party. Other forms of aid denial involved the refusal of emergency healthcare by ministry of health which, at the time, was led by one Tedros Adhanom.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/10/19/ethiopia-donor-aid-supports-repression</ref>  The Amhara People’s Union, an activist group based in [[Washington, D.C.]], issued many other accusations of human rights abuses against the TPLF led government.<ref>https://ecadforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/APU_opposes_candidacy_of_Dr_TAG.pdf?x35370</ref>  They noted at a session in Ethiopian parliament that around 2 million Amhara were found to have “disappeared” from the population census.

==Cholera epidemic coverup==

===Cholera epidemic coverup===

A [[cholera]] outbreak spread the region in 2007, infecting thousands in neighbouring countries. When it spread to Ethiopia, the government simply renamed the outbreak and called it Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD). International organisations were pressured not to call it Cholera (despite the UN testing the infected and finding Cholera), and were pressured by government employees not to reveal the number of infected.<ref>http://archive.is/9KGx8</ref>

A [[cholera]] outbreak spread the region in 2007, infecting thousands in neighbouring countries. When it spread to Ethiopia, the government simply renamed the outbreak and called it Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD). International organisations were pressured not to call it Cholera (despite the UN testing the infected and finding Cholera), and were pressured by government employees not to reveal the number of infected.<ref>http://archive.is/9KGx8</ref>