21/06/2026
“October 23, 1984, the BBC aired a report by correspondent Michael Buerk with footage filmed in the Korem refugee camp”
“On July 13, Live Aid filled Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and raised more than 100 million US dollars for famine relief”
“This is the mechanism Stalin had used to engineer famine in Ukraine in 1932. The state destroys the production incentive, then extracts grain by force”
“Mengistu used food as a weapon of war against the civilian populations in those regions. Blocking grain convoys, bombing markets in rebel-held towns, and burning crops”
“If the cause of the Ethiopian famine had been a right-wing regime, it would probably be in every school curriculum alongside Live Aid”
“Forced collectivization had already destroyed the country’s food reserves years before the rain stopped”
Live Aid and Ethiopia’s Marxist-Leninist famine
Students For Liberty write on how Live Aid and Ethiopia’s Marxist-Leninist famine. “October 23, 1984, the BBC aired a report by correspondent Michael Buerk with footage filmed in the Korem re…
