During the years 1942-43 at the time of the Bengal famine the British occupation authorities greatly increased the death toll by not providing rice and jute to the inhabitants. They also confiscated fishing boats of the locals. Winston Churchill was unmoved at the great number of deaths this caused and remarked that it was unfortunate that Gandhi was not among the victims - http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8241
shareWorld War 2 propaganda movies from Hollywood like to portray the humanitarianism of the British government. But starvation is not a humane way to die - it is a long, slow and torturous process. The British have used starvation as a weapon over the centuries -
In Ireland www.wolfetonesofficialsite.com/famine.htm
In Germany www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/starva tion1919.html
In India http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8241
The next time you see some wartime movie showing the British as heroes always remember they stood for an empire which starved people to death by the million.
That's all well and good, but they also did a lot of good things. Best to consider all sides, not simply one or the other.
shareStalin was also responsible for millions of deaths by starvation when he was in power most infamously during the holodomor in 1932-33 www.holodomor.org.uk No wonder Churchill and Stalin were great friends during world war 2 - www.heretical.com/miscellx/churchil.html I'm sure they compared notes on the best way to starve millions of people to death!
shareGo back through history and you will see many of the worlds greatest atrocities were committed by England. No need to list the great many examples, the "Lost Generation" of the Australian outback for one.
shareChurchill didn't care about millions of Indians starving to death as he considered them a "beastly people". Article on Churchill from Veterans Today columnist Jonas E Alexis - www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/24/churchill-was-a-mass-murderer-and-worshipped-mammon/
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