This artwork depicts Winston Churchill standing elevated above the silhouettes of the starving. An image referencing the Bengal Famine of 1943, in which an estimated two to three million people died.
The famine was not caused by crop failure alone. Wartime policies diverted food from Bengal to military stockpiles. Export of rice continued even as the death toll rose. Requests for emergency food shipments were rejected in London. Churchill's own recorded comments on the famine, made in Cabinet meetings and documented in Leo Amery's diaries, expressed contempt rather than concern. He asked why Gandhi had not died yet.
This is not ancient history. The documents are declassified. The famine is in the archives. What's missing is the acknowledgement.
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