European Exploitation responsible for Iranian Famine that killed two million people

[Abu Juwairiya]

"On the eve of World War I, [Winston] Churchill, as first lord of the British Admiralty, had converted the Royal Navy from coal-burning to oil-burning ships. He championed the British purchase of 51 percent of the new Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which had struck the first of Iran's oil five years before. The British took a lion's share. Not only did Iranian oil fuel Churchill's new armada, but the revenues paid for it.

The [Iranian] oil became the lifeblood of the British exchequer.

While Britannia ruled the waves, British, Russian, and Turkish troops trampled northern Iran, destroying much of the nation's agriculture and sparking a famine that killed perhaps two million people." (Source: "Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA" By Tim Weiner, P 81, 2007)

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The above famine (a short time before the 1921 revolution in Iran) could be correctly labelled as a 'genocide'. By definition, genocide is not restricted to the deliberate and intentional annihilation of a race, ethnic group or people. Neglect, carelessness, mismanagement and discrimination of one or more groups over another or others also count as genocidal actions.

As the guilty parties are not Nazi, communist, Arab, dark skinned, Muslim or otherwise the indictments are brushed aside. Two million people's lives are less important because those responsible like to be seen as the world's greatest champions of justice in the first place.