Debating Famine and Genocide

The Famine-Genocide of 1932-33: Estimation of Losses and Demographic Impact

The number of losses due to the 1932-34 Famine in Ukraine has been the subject of many studies and controversies (Commission on the Ukrainian Famine, 1988; Kulchytskyj, 2003; Wolowyna, 2007). The different estimates vary from around 2.6 millions to more than 10 millions. The figure of 10 million, extensively used by the government of Ukraine and some Ukrainian diaspora leaders, seems to be base...

Agricultural Policy, Crop Failure and the ‘Ruriganiza’ Famine (1989) in Southern Rwanda : a Prelude to Genocide ?

of the paper The paper analyses the agricultural policy of the Habyarimana regime, which ruled Rwanda from 1973 to 1994. Econometric analysis of rural household survey data is used to investigate the effects of the 1989 crop failure in southern Rwanda on children’s health status. The paper shows that children in southern Rwanda are chronically malnourished, more then in other prefectures of Rwa...

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

The publication of sources on the history of the 1932-1933 famine-genocide: history, current state, and prospects.

For obvious reasons the first documentary publications about the FamineGenocide of 1932-1933 could not be based on the Ukrainian archives. Western scholars and researchers from the Ukrainian diaspora took the lead in publishing sources in order to reveal this crime. For more than half a century the only documents to bear witness to the Famine-Genocide were ones that remained outside the control...

Ethics, equity and genocide.

India is one of the most inequitable societies on earth, and certainly when its size is taken into consideration, we are responsible for a sizeable proportion of the sum total of human misery on this planet. As health professionals, we have access to data that goes beyond the Dandekars and Tendulkars and Arjun Senguptas, and which we can read off the bodies of our study subjects. We have become...