A journalist for the New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for a piece covering something he was an eye witness to, but failed to tell the truth. No, this wasn't last week and he wasn't writing about a Trump press conference. Nor was it during the Obama administration... Not the war in Iraq... Nor even Vietnam. No, this took place nearly 100 years ago in the 1930s.
He was there. And he lied. A deliberately escalated hunger that turned into a famine. He saw it. Over a few short years more than 2500 people were arrested for cannibalism. Eating the flesh of their neighbors because they were so hungry. Africa? No. Central America? No. Pacific islands? Not at all.
Immigrants from this country now living in New York protested this sad state of affairs. Demanded the government do something. They were physically attacked in the streets by sympathisers to the regime. Some familiar?
The death toll has been estimated to be anywhere between 2 and 10 million. No-one knows for sure how many. But even the lowest amount is a tragedy, and for a journalist to witness these events and to America and win a prestigious award for lying about it sounds eerily familiar.
So, how many here are familiar with this event, and where did it take place? And who was the despot in power that exacerbated the situation through taking food supplies from that area to feed others else where?
He was there. And he lied. A deliberately escalated hunger that turned into a famine. He saw it. Over a few short years more than 2500 people were arrested for cannibalism. Eating the flesh of their neighbors because they were so hungry. Africa? No. Central America? No. Pacific islands? Not at all.
Immigrants from this country now living in New York protested this sad state of affairs. Demanded the government do something. They were physically attacked in the streets by sympathisers to the regime. Some familiar?
The death toll has been estimated to be anywhere between 2 and 10 million. No-one knows for sure how many. But even the lowest amount is a tragedy, and for a journalist to witness these events and to America and win a prestigious award for lying about it sounds eerily familiar.
So, how many here are familiar with this event, and where did it take place? And who was the despot in power that exacerbated the situation through taking food supplies from that area to feed others else where?