Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945
In August 1945 a H-29 bomber named Enola Gay after the pilot’s mother took off from Tinian Island in the…
Bengal Famine – 1943
Way back in the 19th century the Bihar and Bengal famines of 1873-1874 were dealt with by the import of…
The Holocaust – 1940-1945
There cannot be a word in the English language that conjures up more haunting - and terrifying - images. The…
Holodomor: Murder by Hunger – 1932-1933
Ukraine has always been invaluable to Russia as a ready source of grain. For centuries, the fertile black earth of…
The ‘Great Calamity’ Armenian Genocide – 1915-1918
The Armenians have inhabited the Caucusus, between Russia and eastern Turkey, since time immemorial. They were among the earliest Christian…
Herero and Nama Genocide – 1904-1907
During the late 19th century, when territorial expansionism was at its height, the nations of Europe vied with each other…
Ethiopian Great Famine – 1888-1892
Africa’s traditional subsistence economies have been subject to the whims of nature since time immemorial - as evidenced by events…
Southern India Famine – 1876-1878
For two years in the 1870s over 58 million people in the Bombay, Madras, Mysore and Hyderabad areas of southern…
The fate of Australian Aboriginals – 1850 onwards
The once widely used catch-all phrase ‘Australian Aboriginals’ is being replaced by Indigenous Australians’. In fact, both descriptions are misleading,…
Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal – 19th Century
‘Manifest Destiny’ has at its core the assertion that not only were the European people of America right in their…