[Snickering Hound]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2010/10/how_churchill_starved_india.html

The Bengal Famine of 1943 was deliberately caused by Churchill and killed millions.

[RedMonqey]

The Bengal Famine of 1943 was deliberately caused by Churchill and killed millions.

Quit with the whiny PC dreg.

Without context one could make just about anyone look like what Stalin and Mao did IN PEACETIME. It called TRIAGE, doctors do this to save the most viable patient instead of expending limited resources on the ones that will die anyway.

Churchill was fighting two different theaters of war and sending the paltry amounts(4000,000 tons) of rice wouldn't have saved the millions of Bengales(the article admits as much)

It was WAR.

By the Leftist absurd standard then Lincoln's war on the South was GENOCIDAL and all statues of him and his murderous generals Grant, Sherman etc.

[traderrob6]

“The Bengal Famine of 1943 was deliberately caused by Churchill and killed millions.”

That is a ridiculous statement and exhibits not only ignorance but blatant stupidity.

Churchill did not deliberately or otherwise “cause the famine.” Famine conditions occurred with or without Churchill. Had he sent what limited rations that could be spared would have saved some lives however starving people elsewhere would have suffered as a result and likely not significant numbers in India would have been saved.

When you are at war and your entire existence is in jeopardy, tough decisions have to be made. Invariably when choices of aid are made, some benefit and others suffer. War is after all a zero sum game.