John VanSickle wrote:
> The only genuinely human-induced famines (and the only famines to strike
> industrialized nations) occurred in communist nations, whether due to
> the sheer incompetence of the communist system (China's Great Leap
> Forward starved millions) or malice of communist leaders (Lenin
> purposefully starved millions of people).

	Saying "only" is a stretch.

	Recently there was a "famine" in Niger. There was no real shortage of
food. Plenty of food was available, but it was unaffordable:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,1540214,00.html

Niger is anything but a communist country.

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