Politics of Starvation

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Over eight million persons have fled the ravages of the Pakistan Army to seek refuge in India, where epidemics of cholera, pneumonia and now of kwashiorkor and frank starvation have claimed thousands of lives. To all observers, the teeming, filthy refugee camps present "a scene which can be described as the most appalling tide of human misery in modern times."1 Although the specter of hunger and epidemic disease is not new to India, the magnitude of this man-made disaster is unparalleled. Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw, professor of nutrition at MIT and a world expert on protein-calorie malnutrition, has testified: "the extent . . .

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