This denial of history continued and made it easy for Winston Churchill to effortlessly live with the genocide of Indians in the 20th century. A book review based on the Churchill that appeared in the New York Times stated: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." This hatred killed. In 1943, to give just one example, a famine broke out in Bengal, caused, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proven, by British mismanagement. To the horror of many of his colleagues, Churchill raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits” and refused to offer any aid for months while hundreds of thousands died. (3)
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