Bob Geldof challenges BBC to prove its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were spent to buy weapons

Bob Geldof challenges BBC to prove its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were spent to buy weapons

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Bob Geldof the anti-poverty campaigner said there was "not a shred of evidence" Band Aid or Live Aid money was used to purchase weapons by rebels.

The report included claims that substantial sums of aid that went into rebel-held areas of Tigray province in 1985 were used to buy arms.

The news editor of World Service, Andrew Whitehead,  said the BBC had "quite a lot of evidence" to support the report.

The World Service report featured interviews with two former members of a rebel group.

The CIA also alleged aid money was being misused, Mr Whitehead pointed out in a radio discussion.

He accepted the 1985 report from the crime agency was written before Band Aid had gone into Ethiopia.

[[[ What use is this report written before the event? ]]]

Mr Geldof, said one of the sources quoted in the report was a "dissident political exile" who was "not credible".
   
Martin Plaut, the World Service's Africa editor who broke the story, said: "We came across a lot of other evidence which made it clear that yes, indeed, some of the money had gone astray."

They and a number of other agencies, including Oxfam, the Red Cross, Christian Aid and Save The Children, are also writing to chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons.

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Full report of BBC is here

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