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![Screenshot of part of "Mother" Teresa's Wikipedia page
Controversies
Inadequate care and alleged cruelty
According to a paper by Canadian academics Serge Larivée, Geneviève Chénard and Carole Sénéchal, Mother Teresa's clinics received millions of dollars in donations but lacked medical care, systematic diagnosis, necessary nutrition, and sufficient analgesics for those in pain.[125]
In the opinion of the three academics, "Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross".[126] It was said that the additional money might have transformed the health of the city's poor by creating advanced palliative care facilities.[127][128]
One of Mother Teresa's most outspoken critics was English journalist Christopher Hitchens, who wrote in a 2003 article:
This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.[129]
Hitchens accused her of hypocrisy for choosing advanced treatment for her heart condition.[130][131] Hitchens said that "her intention was not to help people" and that she lied to donors about how their contributions were used. "It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn't working to alleviate poverty. She was working to expand the number of Catholics. She pursued, 'I'm not a social worker. I don't do it for this reason. I do it for Christ. I do it fo the church'".[132]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4jmt42zmpu4lclvy5ccgofah/bafkreidwoibtqdd42mlv75ca36rnxdqymstvs4nk5a5cvewu764duhclda@jpeg)
![Screenshot of part of Abiy Ahmed's Wikipedia page. [Not shown: within a year of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Ethiopia and Eritrea were back at war, and several scholars have opined that the renewal of the conflict had been planned by Abiy Ahmed even before the prize was announced.]
Since 2019, Ethiopia has undergone democratic backsliding under Abiy's premiership,[10][11] marked by severe human rights violations, media censorship, internet shutdown, civil conflicts, systematic persecution and ethnic violence in the Tigray, Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia.[12][13][14] Politically motivated purges also became common and many journalists and activists were arrested by police for alleged breach of "constitutional laws".[15][16] Abiy is also believed to lead and organize Koree Nageenyaa, a secret service that purportedly commits unlawful detentions and extrajudicial killings in the Oromia Region with the aim of suppressing uprisings.[17][18][19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4jmt42zmpu4lclvy5ccgofah/bafkreib6bbezvgweybrpm54v5jk2fghwlwv6lgfnexun2wvyl2me6t5d44@jpeg)
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