Reddit mentions of A Political History of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991)

The allegation was that $95m (£63m) from western governments and charities, including 95% of the money that was channeled to The Relief Society of Tigray (REST) was channelled into the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Band Aid, a western charity, was lumped into that allegation.

The claim originated from former TPLF member, Aregawi Behre. Behre was expelled from the TPLF in 1985, he was exiled to Holland. He has a grudge against the TPLF.

Here's a recient news article about him returning to Ethiopia last year. When in holland, he founded the opposition party TAND.

>The party also became member of the Ethiopian opposition coalition the United Ethiopian Democratic Front (UEDF). Aregawi has written critical articles on organization that he broke up with, TPLF, including an acclaimed book, A Political History of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (1975-1991): Revolt, Ideology and Mobilisation in Ethiopia.

There's no evidence, apart from the word of Behre that money from western charities was diverted by the TPLF to buy arms, certainly not on the scale he claimed.

In addition, CIA reports at the time did not in fact support the his allegations, the report did not support the Behre's allegation that aid was diverted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101225034218/https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ecu/2010/11/101021_ecu_bandaidmoneydonatedtoethiopia.shtml