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<blockquote data-quote="Therapsid" data-source="post: 411212" data-attributes="member: 3661"><p>I didn't declare it a genocide. I was posing the question.</p><p></p><p>Although, frankly, I don't believe Churchill lost any sleep over the Bengali people who starved to death. </p><p></p><p>My sense is that famines under regimes we don't like are called genocides while those in regimes we do favor are considered merely tragedies.</p><p></p><p>Famines are becoming increasingly rare. One of the most recent was in Malawi in 2002. </p><p></p><p>If Malawi had been a country the West was in conflict with, like for example Zimbabwe under Mugabe, everyone would have heard about it. It would be considered an atrocity, instead of a tragedy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Therapsid, post: 411212, member: 3661"] I didn't declare it a genocide. I was posing the question. Although, frankly, I don't believe Churchill lost any sleep over the Bengali people who starved to death. My sense is that famines under regimes we don't like are called genocides while those in regimes we do favor are considered merely tragedies. Famines are becoming increasingly rare. One of the most recent was in Malawi in 2002. If Malawi had been a country the West was in conflict with, like for example Zimbabwe under Mugabe, everyone would have heard about it. It would be considered an atrocity, instead of a tragedy. [/QUOTE]
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