FRANCAISComité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués - History
1980-1989
-From 1980, Nicaragua: the CIMADE shows its sympathy for the Sandinista revolution and starts a programme to help refugees come back.
-1984-1986, Ethiopia: with FDH, the CCFD, the CFCF, Emmaüs International, Solidarités Internationales, Terre des Hommes and Peuples Solidaires, the CIMADE forms a collective body, “Hope-Ethiopia”, and charters a boat full of food and medicine to rescue the victims of the 1984 famine. But, contrary to MSF, which is expelled from the country in December 1985, the Committee does not denounce the crimes of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam’s junta, especially the forced displacements of people to the South. In an interview published on 10th October 1986 in the Nouvel Observateur, a weekly newspaper, the philosopher André Glucksman accuses the CIMADE of ignoring its donors: “the CIMADE and the CCFD must say where the money goes. They must explain that they are not working in the field themselves and that they are donating a large part of their funds to governmental organisms. They must tell their donors that they have taken part in financing the war effort in Ethiopia, villagization, the destruction of mosques, the murder of mullahs and the rape of women…”
