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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (241888)	9/15/2007 3:15:06 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I noted Nanking in an earlier post. The other acts of terrorism are a clear indication of the international character of terrorism as well as a confirmation of my definition. Both the Nazis and the Communists in the Soviet and in China were masters at international terror and far exceeded anything the Muslims have done.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (241888)	9/15/2007 4:32:09 PM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

One must remember that the axis had avaliable the means to kill on an industrial scale. To put in perspective Case-Studies: Chinese Famine (1958 to 1961) In recent years, famines have only occurred as a result of wars. The last major non-war famine was the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine. The Great Famine of China, which took place from 1958-61, is one of the greatest tragedies of recorded history, killing between 14 and 40 million people. The typical estimate is generally placed around 30 million people. To compare this number with other major human death tolls, World War II may have killed 80 million people in total. But while these people were starving, information about the famine was greatly suppressed and what did get out about the harvest figures was manipulated. The true extent of what happened was only discovered decades later by the world and it is still difficult today to find information about this specific famine. Welfare economist and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics Professor Amartya Sen argued in the early 1980s that the severity of the tragedy was increased by the suppression of information. He said that censorship contributes to famine and therefore concluded that it is more difficult for famines to occur in countries with a free press. Sen wrote, "what was lacking when the famine threatened China was a political system of adversarial journalism and opposition.[...] Not only was the world ignorant of the terrible state of affairs in China, even the population itself did not know about the extent of the national calamity....''. Professor Amartya Sen Facts and Figures From US State Department Land area: 9,596,960 sq. km Population: 1.251 billion Annual growth Rate: 0.93% Infant mortality rate: 37.9/1000 Literacy rate: 82% Life expectancy: 70 Years Government type: Communist party-led state Trade: Exports - $192 billion Imports - $146 billion Per capita income: $770 The "Great Leap Forward" was a campaign undertaken by the Chinese Communists in this time to organize China's vast population and to meet its industrial and agricultural problems - they wanted to increase China's agricultural production while still maintaining high industrial growth. The Chinese people hoped that they would develop methods of industrialization which would emphasize manpower rather than machines. Small steel furnaces were built in villages which eliminated the necessity of new factories and peasants and city workers had to abandon their fields and factories in order to run these furnaces. The commune system brought all rural land and major farm equipment under collective ownership. Chairman Mao Zedong had hoped that this effort would help his nation and people out of poverty; but instead, the system failed and brought about a human catastrophe. These communes turned out to be very inefficient as the large-scale diversion of farm labour into a small-scale industry disrupted the country's agriculture so seriously that many people died of starvation.