Historians frequently bury hard data that reveal the true nature of western (with western I am specifically referring to European) domination of the planet since the beginning of the nineteenth century. In a special report, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed has documented that European expansion in the Americas probably cost over 21 million lives (some researchers estimate over 100 million deaths) and in Africa anything from 17 to 65 million. (1) In South Asia, which is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, from 1770 to 1947 about 79 million people died in various famines and these deaths were avoidable. (2) 

Thus, European expansion into Americas, Africa and Asia caused anything from 117 to 244 million deaths. There is agreement among serious writers that whilst famines in India were caused by drought but starvation deaths occurred largely due to British administrative and economic policies. India’s food was stolen to feed Europeans to fight their wars all over the world. And this devastation does not even appear as foot note when historians write about world wars and the Jewish holocaust.

What makes this genocide worth remembering is the official conspiracy of silence. Everywhere, in every academic circle, except a few brave ones who are re-evaluating history. To discuss the manner in which European colonialists actually forced hunger and starvation on people they enslaved is often uncomfortable. Even economists shy away from