<p><a class="contributor" href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidsmith" rel="author">David Smith</a>, Africa correspondent <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/">theguardian.com</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thinktank accuses Ethiopian government of stirring ethnic tensions as Suri displaced to make way for large plantations . Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human rights violations, ruining livelihoods and disturbing a delicate political balance between ethnic groups, a thinktank report has found.</p>

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