Chinese, Bengali and Gaza holocausts

September 2, 2025

Important article by Professor Jocelyn Chey. In the 1937-1945 Chinese holocaust 35-40 million Chinese died from violence and deprivation under Japanese occupation (15% of the pre-war population). Australian attorney-general Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies made Australia complicit by permitting iron exports to Japan. Michael Portillo included me in a 2008 BBC program Bengal Famine that included comments from Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Welcome Institute, London): “That six to seven million [World War II Bengal famine deaths] figure includes the deaths that happened in let’s say the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Assam”, economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge, Harvard): “Famines happen when they’re so extraordinarily easy to prevent”, and me (“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”): “Rational risk management… to avoid a repetition”.

Food-denying Australia was complicit in the British-imposed Bengali holocaust designed to offer any invading Japanese forces a food-free Northeast India. Today, the Zionist Israeli-imposed and Australia-complicit Gaza genocide involves mass starvation by man-made famine, 680,000 Gazans or 28% of the pre-war population have been killed (mostly children), and the death rate per capita in Gaza is 25 times greater than that of Australian PoWs of the Japanese. Holocaust ignored means holocaust repeated.