The saga of Ibnet camp grew more and more curious as the days went by. First, foreign relief workers watched with incredulity as Ethiopian officials abruptly ordered some 30,000 famine-weakened residents out of the refugee camp, burned down their huts and told them to begin walking back to their homes, many a two-week trek away. Then an official in Addis Ababa, the capital, dismissed the accounts of a forced evacuation as fabrications. Eventually the Foreign Ministry issued a splenetic communique calling the stories "a shockingly big lie" that betrayed the tendency of "high-ranking officials of the Reagen (sic) Administration to go...
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