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Can you name some ways people are oppressed today?

People are oppressed by others and sometimes they oppress others, even without knowing it. Are you aware of how people can be oppressed?

Posted - August 15, 2016

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  • 2658

    NSA Prism program taps into user data of Apple, Google and others..

      August 15, 2016 10:02 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    By their own government. 

    No food.  No water.  No dignity.   Death.

    Haile Selassie's reign came to an end on 12 September 1974, when a Soviet-backed Marxist–Leninist military dictatorship, the "Derg" led by Mengistu Haile Mariam, deposed him.[77] The new Provisional Military Administrative Council established a one-party communist state which was called People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in March 1975.

    The ensuing regime suffered several coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and a huge refugee problem. In 1977, Somalia, which had been receiving assistance and arms from the USSR invaded Ethiopia in the Ogaden War, capturing part of the Ogaden region. Ethiopia recovered it after it began receiving massive military aid from the USSR, Cuba, South Yemen, East Germany,[78] and North Korea. This included around 15,000 Cuban combat troops.

    Up to 500,000 were killed as a result of the Red Terror,[79] from forced deportations, or from the use of hunger as a weapon under Mengistu's rule.[74] The Red Terror was carried out in response to what the government termed the "White Terror", a supposed chain of violent events, assassinations and killings attributed to the opposition.[79]

    The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia affected around eight million people, resulting in one million dead. Insurrections against Communist rule sprang up, particularly in the northern regions of Tigray and Eritrea. In 1989, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) merged with other ethnically based opposition movements to form the coalition known as the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

    Concurrently the Soviet Union began to retreat from building world communism under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika policies, marking a dramatic reduction in aid to Ethiopia from Socialist Bloc countries. This resulted in more economic hardship and the collapse of the military in the face of determined onslaughts by guerrilla forces in the north. The collapse of socialism in general, and in Eastern Europe during the counter-revolutions of 1989, coincided with the Soviet Union stopping aid to Ethiopia altogether in 1990. The strategic outlook for Mengistu quickly deteriorated.

      August 15, 2016 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 17560

    No

      August 15, 2016 11:10 AM MDT
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  •   August 15, 2016 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 5835

    You can't build a fence around your own house without government permission.

    You have to pay a bank to hold your money, and you are treated like a criminal if you hold it yourself.

    You can be arrested if your children are seen walking alone anywhere.

      August 15, 2016 5:25 PM MDT
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  • 6

    Look at Zimbabwe.

    They have the most fertile land in Southern Africa. Yet 98% of the population have no daily food to survive. The current  government  they have 40+ years. The top government live like Kings, the majority starve.  Most females in Africa are oppressed at least 90%.

      August 15, 2016 6:15 PM MDT
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