Irish Potato Famine

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8. Ireland is not the only colony the United Kingdom neglected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule

Churchill bears a lot of responsibility for the Famine of 1943-1947. Ironically, his action/inaction was a major cause for a strengthened independence movement.

"Reportedly, when he first received a telegram from the British colonial authorities in New Delhi about the rising toll of famine deaths in Bengal, his reaction was simply that he regretted that nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi was not one of the victims.Later at a War Cabinet meeting, Churchill blamed the Indians themselves for the famine, saying that they “breed like rabbits.”His attitude toward Indians was made crystal clear when he told Secretary of State for India Leopold Amery: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.""

http://www.ibtimes.com/bengal-famine-1943-man-made-holocaust-1100525