{"id":1555116,"date":"2024-03-15T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=148899"},"modified":"2024-03-15T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:40:58","slug":"when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/15\/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame-3\/","title":{"rendered":"When Starvation Is a Weapon, the Harvest Is Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a work entitled \u201cIrish Famine 4,\u201d Palestinian-American journalist<\/a> and artist<\/a> Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy<\/a>, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland<\/a> the food crops so desperately needed.\u00a0During a seven-year period beginning in 1845, one million Irish people died<\/a> from starvation and related diseases. It was a deliberate mass killing<\/a>, employing one of the most horrific means of execution imaginable\u2014an excruciating descent of weeks\u2019 duration into despair, delirium, and bodily immobility while one\u2019s attention, one\u2019s character, is gradually reduced to little more than appetite and pain.<\/p>\n