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Old 17th-February-2008, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by cbacba View Post
famine has been used for genocide and control and as a weapon of warfware since agriculture hit the scene. From salting the fields in ancient times to the more modern stalin confiscating the seed stocks in the ukraine, it's the same old same old.

They did the same thing in Ethiopia, actually they (the commies) would forbid stockpiling so when one year was bad the first thing to go was the seed for next years crops (mmm tasty). We got little starving children covered in flies blasted on our TV's for years but were never informed that what happened was avoidable and some suggest, deliberate.

Quick-fix humanitarianism. (Ethiopian famine)
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