The World - News from May 3, 1985

The evacuation of 50,000 famine victims from their camp in Ethiopia was necessary and voluntary, but it was done too hastily and with too little preparation, Kurt Jansson, the U.N. special representative in Ethiopia, said in Addis Ababa. After visiting the camp at Ibnet, Jansson said the refugees’ grass huts were burned after they left to avoid health hazards. Ethiopia’s relief director said the people were healthy and left voluntarily to return home and plant crops now that rain has fallen. However, international relief officials said many may die in long marches.