The TPLF is the most ruthlessly organised and efficient guerilla group I have ever encountered. 'Indeed, the UN reported last week that up to 50 per cent of food aid in neighbouring Somalia is being stolen.The comments below have been moderated in advance.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.For its part, the Band-Aid Trust has said it will report the BBC World Service to Ofcom and the BBC board of directors.Women were systematically raped, and the streets of the capital Addis Ababa were littered with the corpses of hundreds of child victims.Bob Geldof has responded with a vitriolic attack, dismissing the story as 'total b******s' and accusing the BBC of a 'total collapse of standards'. A year later, Britain was host to the biggest fund-raising event of all time, Live Aid.A candid black and white photograph from the time has come to light, graphically showing the set-up.After much probing, some further figures are released by accountant Joe Cannon, with a message: 'Please note that there will be professional time costs for extracting the relevant information and responding to your emails, which will need to be recharged to the Daily Mail. 'The relief agencies had no way of knowing whether the official buying grain for them from REST was an independent local aid worker, or a member of the rebel group posing as one. 'James agrees with Araya that some money found its way into the rebel's hands - but denies it was the $95 million quoted. It could not have been. There is not a single shred of evidence that Band-Aid money was diverted. Some was in the form of food, some as cash.We are no longer accepting comments on this article.So just what is the truth? I think it fulfilled the interests of the donors. Yes. He believes that there is a 'strong probability' that five to ten per cent of funds was diverted for arms by the TPLF, and a further five to ten per cent used by them to finance their political 'hearts and minds' campaign - totalling up to 20 per cent.In 1995, it gave £231,808 to SOS Sahel, a development agency that works with herders and farmers in Africa.Aid money: Was Max Perberdy fooled by Gebremedhin Araya and Tekleweyni Assefa?Dozens of giant Antonov An-22 military transport aircraft arrived, delivering a mighty war-chest of fire-power.He has now tellingly conceded in a radio interview - which was very small print compared to the ferocity of his initial outburst: 'It's possible, in a war zone, in one of the worst wars, the longest-running wars in the 20th century, in a famine area, it's possible of course, that some monies were mislaid. That’s my job.