The British, managed to kill almost 4 million Indians in just over a year. The year was 1942 and British PM was Churchill The Bengal Famine a “manmade holocaust” because Churchill’s policies allowed British to divert vast quantities of food grain from India to Britain, contributing to a massive food shortage in the areas comprising present-day West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh. Churchill could easily have prevented the famine. Even a few shipments of food grain would have helped, but the British prime minister adamantly turned down appeals from two successive Viceroys, his own Secretary of State for India and even the President of the US . Subhas Chandra Bose, who was then fighting on the side of the Axis forces, offered to send rice from Myanmar, but the British censors did not even allow his offer to be reported. Shouldnt we hold the English responsible for this? Shouldnt this be a part of our history books? While it took Adolf Hitler and his Nazi cohorts 12 years to round up and murder 6 million Jews and others Churchill did 4 milion in 1 year.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:52:25 +0000
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