The Bengal Famine was no act of nature. Recent research shows it was triggered by a deliberate policy imposed by British colonizers to appropriate resources from ordinary Indians to provision Western troops. Britain must face up to this crime. newint.org/features/2021/…
In the name of the Allied cause, the policies imposed by Churchill and Keynes killed more than 3 million people – many times more than the total number of military and civilian casualties suffered during the entire war by Britain and the US combined.
The scale of this tragedy is almost impossible to fathom. If laid head to foot, the corpses of the victims would stretch the length of England, from Dover to the Scottish borders, nearly 10 times over.
Boris Johnson refused demands to remove statues of Churchill, saying we shouldn’t ‘edit’ Britain’s history. If that’s the case, then we should ensure that the full story of Churchill’s legacy is told: alongside every statue of him place a memorial to those killed by his policies.
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