The Bengal Famine: A Crime Censored by the British Empire

One of the crimes committed by the British Empire during the Second World War was the Bengal Famine, a province of India that was the victim of an artificial shortage caused by the English in which between 3 and 5 million people died.

On August 22, 1943, they published photos of the famine, but with the intention of creating a false matrix of anti-communist opinion against the Soviet Union, by hiding the real culprit of this atrocious crime: the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

“No help is going to save them. The Indians reproduce like rabbits would waste any food”, in this despicable way Churchill referred to the famine in 1943.

A year later, the Prime Minister was criticized by Viceroy Lord Wavell for his criminal stance.

“The famine in Bengal is one of the great disasters that any people have suffered under British law. The damage to our reputation in India is incalculable,” Wavell wrote in a letter to Churchill.

According to what was published by the news portal ipsnoticias.net, 54 years later, in 1997, British citizens learned about this chapter of the history of their empire through a documentary broadcast on television and entitled “The Secret Famine”.

According to the media mentioned above, many experts consider this fact similar in magnitude to the holocaust suffered at the same time by Jews in countries occupied by Nazi Germany.

Mazo News Team