Humanitarian

Hiroshima, a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu, was the target

Stalin’s systematic slaughter by famine and control of movement of more than ten million people

A thousand of the workers were killed and thousands more were injured when the Czar’s

British administration failed to prepare for times of inadequate rainfall so, when crops failed in

Truthfully, what the world remembers best about Tiananmen Square in 1989 is one of the

Has it been a prolonged case of genocide or merely ongoing mass murder? The US

The German colony of Rwanda fell under Belgian control after World War I and became

The disparate communities of Iraq — majority Shi’ites, Sunnis and Kurds – were ruled with

The world might have remained supremely indifferent to famine that took Ethiopia in its iron

Communism and Southeast Asia endured a stormy relationship after World War II, as China exported

The boundaries of African colonies seized by European countries in the 19th century were arbitrary,

The failure of China’s Great Leap Forward strengthened the hands of moderates in the ruling

Ten years after the Communist victory in China and the establishment of the People’s Republic

An Afrikaans word meaning ‘separateness’, apartheid was the formal policy of racial segregation which prevailed

In August 1945 a H-29 bomber named Enola Gay after the pilot’s mother took off

Way back in the 19th century the Bihar and Bengal famines of 1873-1874 were dealt

There cannot be a word in the English language that conjures up more haunting –

Ukraine has always been invaluable to Russia as a ready source of grain. For centuries,