Mr. Chris Albin-Lackey

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  "The international community by and large has been shamefully quiet about these abuses," Chris Albin-Lackey, a senior researcher with HRW's Africa

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  "The international community by and large has been shamefully quiet about these abuses," said Chris Albin-Lackey, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch's Africa Division.
  
  He believes that international donors are well aware of the scope of the problem but have refused to publicly criticize the Ethiopian government's conduct, or even to raise the issue forcefully behind closed doors.

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  "The [Somalia] intervention is controversial in Ethiopia, where the Meles government has become increasingly repressive, said Chris Albin-Lackey, an African researcher at Human Rights Watch.

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  "You see local governments by and large investing almost nothing into healthcare and education beyond the very bare minimum to pay salaries and sometimes they don't even do that," said Chris Albin-Lackey, Nigeria researcher for New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
  
  In a report released on Wednesday, HRW detailed alleged corruption in Rivers State in the delta.Albin-Lackey told IRIN that civil servants in the state have a "profound sense of demoralisation" in the face of graft, official neglect and a sense of opportunity lost, following elections in 2003 that people hoped might change things for the better.
  
  Those polls were marred by violence and blatant vote rigging, most prominently in Rivers State, according to international observers.
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  "A few decades ago Nigeria was considered to have one of the best education systems in Africa and now the schools in the richest state in the country are literally falling apart," Albin-Lackey said of the schools he saw in Rivers State during his research mission there.
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  Elections coming up in April could be an opportunity for change if the polls are carried out peacefully and transparently, Albin-Lackey said.
  
  "It would make a difference if they could be turned out of office," he said of the region's allegedly corrupt governors, assembly members and councilors."One of the biggest questions in the coming months… is whether people will have the opportunity to put someone in there who has an interest in trying to meet their responsibilities."
  
  Albin-Lackey and other Nigeria analysts said the federal government has made efforts to tackle corruption by establishing the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, but more needs to be done.

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  Even then, according to Chris Albin-Lackey of Human Rights Watch in Nairobi, most of the money is "squandered on white elephant projects" like the ones he set out to visit in 2007 - a school for the handicapped, a fishpond for small-scale aquaculture and a sports stadium - which he found had either been abandoned or had never been built.

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  "The spoils of controlling political office in the Delta are higher now than they've ever been, especially because so little has been done to prevent public officials from stealing the money they are accountable for," said Chris Albin-Lackey, the senior African researcher at Human Rights Watch."It really seems that the primary consequence of increasing revenues going into government coffers has been increasingly violent and corrupt struggles for political power," he said.

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  Even then, according to Chris Albin-Lackey of Human Rights Watch in Nairobi, most of the money is "squandered on white elephant projects" â€" such as the ones he set out to visit in 2007, a school for the handicapped, a fishpond for small-scale aquaculture and a sports stadium, which he found had either been abandoned or never built.

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  "To a large extent, this bill represents a serious attempt by Congress to push back against the administration's unconscionable silence about Ethiopia's dismal human rights record," said Chris Albin-Lackey, African researcher for Human Rights Watch . "It is both welcome and overdue."
  
  The government of Ethiopia has fought back by retaining DLA Piper for $50,000 a month.Since March 2007, DLA has collected more than $1.3 million from the east African country.
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  "While one might quibble with some of the specific provisions of the bill, the administration's opposition to it is grounded mostly in an indefensible desire to avoid upsetting its cozy relationship with the Ethiopian government," said Albin-Lackey of Human Rights Watch.

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  "The complete lack of any semblance of organized opposition in most of the country reflects how difficult it is in Ethiopia for dissenting voices to emerge with out facing a huge level of harassment," says Chris Albin-Lackey, senior researcher with the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch.
  
  Albin-Lackey says that he regards the April ballot as "a stark illustration of just how far Ethiopia's political space has been closed off since the limited opening that preceded that 2005 polls."

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  The new report, authored by Mr. Chris Albin-Lackey, Senior Researcher, Africa Division of HRW, claimed that government at the federal level took limited steps in the direction of reform and that federal officials tolerated and often encouraged the rampant abuse seen at the state and local levels.

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