Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
The legal system - the processes within the system - in this country do not provide an omnibus (overall) forum for addressing all the issues in a given situation in one setting. I recognize that you're intensely indignant over what you perceive as getting-away-with-murder by the State of Ethiopia, or parts of it. But to the extent that your view is that this specific injustice must be pounded upon endlessly, to the exclusion of achieving some positive results in a given case in which that State is not directly present, I'll just agree to disagree.
Well, you just have to accept that the carrier brings the legal aspects of the country that it is from. If you want Western standards of law and state oversight, choose a Western carrier.
Now a significant number of the passengers were on journeys which could have been done wholly on such carriers, indeed, nonstop in many cases. France, UK - why not fly nonstop on your own carrier ? The single largest overseas group (in fact, double the number of Ethiopians on board) were Canadians, who have a range of such carriers connecting directly in Europe. What does Ethiopia have to do with a trip from Montreal to Nairobi ? One answer of course, it's cheaper. OK, on you go. Don't get upset if the carrier's national traditions are not your traditions.