#WinstonChurchill doubled down on his #racist and #genocidal policy during the #BengalFamine on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, vetoing the sending to #India of food stores been set aside for a cancelled attack into #Greece, saying they'd be wasted on the "anyway under-fed Bengalis".

🕯️ The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 2–3 million people.

Wartime policies, colonial priorities and administrative failures transformed scarcity into catastrophe.

✍️ Dr. Jan Muhammad Shaikh

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