![About 70,000 people are being cleared from their villages so the farmland can be leased to the Chinese and Gulf Arabs About 70,000 people are being cleared from their villages so the farmland can be leased to the Chinese and Gulf Arabs](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118172309im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article6291083.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/pg-32-ethiopa-alamy.jpg)
Ethiopia 'forcing out thousands in land grab'
18 January 2012 12:00 AM
Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can lease it to foreign investors, leaving former landowners destitute and in some cases starving, Human Rights Watch has said.