Echoes Of Ethiopian Famine In Gaza Crisis Letters

The use of starvation as a weapon is nothing new, writes Gail Warden With reference to the ongoing starvation in Gaza and the Ethiopian famine of 1984, Gaby Hinsliff writes: Except this time its no natural disaster . But the starvation of Tigrayans in northern Ethiopia in the 1980s was as man-made as that of Gaza. The Ethiopian government of the time blocked food from reaching Tigray to starve it into submission. The earlier government of Emperor Haile Selassie did likewise, and also persuaded its ally, the British government, to .