Text | History of Jiuding
Edited by | Jiuding Jianshi
From 1983 to 1985, there was a severe famine in Africa, with more than 16 million deaths a year, more than the number of deaths in World War II, and it is also known as "one of the greatest disasters of mankind in modern history" in Africa.
For people of our time, the vast majority of people will not know what it feels like to be hungry, of course, this does not include those who deliberately diet because of weight loss, when we do not have to worry about eating, the African continent suffers from extremely severe famine, and a large number of people die of hunger every day.
Because there is no food, these people have been tortured to the point of eating bark, eating insects, even to the point of eating human flesh, there are their brothers and sisters, friends or strangers, after death, will be eaten by those who are hungry and can't stand it, is it difficult to accept, how can they eat human flesh? One of the truths we need to understand is that in the face of death, people are fragile, but they can do whatever it takes to survive, as long as they can live, even if they live without dignity.
If you are willing to understand, a little search can find out how many surprising things have happened in this african country, and it is very sad that a picture that once circulated on the Internet is very sad, in the African land, a child who does not know the gender is lying on the ground, and the whole person is thin because of malnutrition, especially his head is extremely huge because of the body.
The most shocking thing is that there is a vulture about the size of him not far behind him, and there is a possibility of coming forward to eat him at any time, some people say that it is not the child who did not find this vulture? No, the most likely reason is that even if it is found, there is no strength to escape, this photo was taken by a field photographer in Sudan, hence the name "Hungry Sudan".
In fact, at that time, not only Sudan, but also most of Africa was in this state, such as Tanzania, about 1500 children were starved to death every day, in order to survive, these children ate everything, whether it was disgusting bugs or any animal, as long as they could eat into the stomach, it was their "hope" for survival, but even so, these children were still not full, each child was thin and skinny, not like a human, like a walking mummy.
In those two years, countless people died every day in Africa, and some people chose to go to other cities, such as Uganda's disaster victims, because they could not stand hunger, but on the way, some people lost their lives because of hunger, and these people who lost their lives became the food of some people, cruel but helpless.
I don't know if you have seen the 1942 movie, tens of thousands of victims chose to leave their hometowns because of famine, but lost their lives on the road, and even some people sold their wives and children in order to have a bite to eat, just to survive, of course, this is just a movie, the reality of famine is more cruel than this.
Africa has long been known as the poorest country, not only because of their economic backwardness, but most importantly because the people here do not know how to develop their own country.
The mainland's People's Daily once published an article in 1985: Africa is experiencing the worst drought and famine in history, and 34 countries have suffered from severe droughts, 24 countries have broken out into severe famines, and more than 10 million people have left their homes to find food to survive.
The reason for the outbreak of famine in Africa is on the one hand because of the three-year drought, on the other hand, the population is too large, first of all, 95 percent of the african continent has an average annual temperature of more than 25 degrees, Ethiopia is more serious, reaching about 34 degrees, the original rainfall on the African continent is less, and some places even have no rain all year round.
All in all, most of Africa's annual precipitation hovers around 200mm every year, so someone should ask, Africa is not raining in those years, it has always been like this, why did famine break out in those two years alone? This is the question we're going to answer next: population boom.
Africa's geographical location leads to less rain in this place, but it has not developed to the point of famine, the reason for the famine is because of the sudden rise in population, you don't look at the poverty of Africa, but African people are very happy to have children, the annual population growth rate can exceed 3 percent, the birth rate has reached the world's first, far more than other continents, but the growth of agriculture is only 1.9 percent, a long time, of course, eating has become a biggest problem.
For example, originally the grain in this field was only enough for a family of four to eat, but the master did not believe in evil, but he called all his seven aunts and eight aunts to his own house to eat. What if it is not enough? Expand the area of arable land, a variety of grains, where does the expanded area come from? Of course, it is forests and grasslands, but there is still not enough food to eat, because people in the cities do not cultivate land at all, and they eat very finely, so the government can only let the farmers who cultivate the land shorten the production cycle of grain, how to shorten the cycle of grain?
That is, to use a large number of fertilizers and pesticides to promote their growth, this method does see the effect in a short period of time, but after a long time, the drawbacks will appear, and the result of demolishing the east wall to supplement the west wall is that the land has become more and more barren.
In order to change this situation, the government began to vigorously support nomadic pastoralism, one of these herders has at least a dozen children, more children, cattle and sheep naturally more, it is impossible for several people to put a cow or sheep, such a result is what, do not say that everyone knows, grass is eaten, grassland coverage is getting less and less, by the 20th century, the coverage of African forests has been unable to feed Africans.
One must ask, during the two years of famine, did the government not allocate relief grain? Dial, how can it not be allocated, but the government's relief food and refugees are like a drop of water mixed into the sea, can not stir up a little wave, every day there are still a large number of refugees to die.
Among these countries in Africa, ethiopia is the most serious situation, as we said above, the average annual temperature is around 34 degrees, the country's economy is originally dependent on agriculture, drought caused by famine let it directly hit the hardest, more than 42 million people, one-fifth of people can not eat, on the verge of frequent death.
One of the videos is the most capable of hitting people's hearts: on the edge of the tent set up by refugees, there is a man boiling porridge, saying that it is porridge, almost the same as qing shui, next to the cradle is a relatively young child, the child's eyes are unfocused, do not know what is thinking, the man boiled porridge to the child's mouth, the child does not know to open his mouth, just look at it, is not hungry?
No, on the contrary, the child was too hungry to forget the instinct to eat, and even so, the man could not be willing to drink the porridge himself, and things like this happened every day, and many people greeted the arrival of death in despair.
In 1985, the United Nations felt that if this continued, the African people would be finished, so it allocated 6 million tons of food to Africa, of which the mainland donated 170,000 tons, which finally improved the situation in Africa, so that it would not fall into difficulties and finally let Africans slowly come out of this famine.
Looking at what Africans have done, it is not difficult to see that this is all their own doing, although it makes people feel very unsympathetic to say so, in our concept, it has always been how capable of doing more great things, not having the ability to raise so many children, not to give birth to so many children, to give birth to let them suffer, why should they be born?
If you have the conditions, you can have a few more, but in a way like Africans, those children are born without a high quality of life, and even if they maintain their lives, they do not have the ability to let them read and change their destiny.
According to statistics, most children in Africa have not been to school, especially Niger is absolutely illiterate about 80 percent, ranking first in the world, which is inseparable from their economy, there is no money for children to study, can only barely let them survive, do not know why such a life to give birth to so many children.
Most people have a view of black Africans because they advocate violent problem solving, this part of Africa is not only economically backward, lazy to eat, but also can break out small-scale wars or riots at every turn, even in other countries, they are the people who provoke disputes, they are used to using force to speak, but they do not know that today the world does not need brainless reckless men, but people with brains.
The drought and famine in Africa in those two years were caused by a variety of reasons, but in the final analysis, Africans did not know how to rationally use the ecological environment, overused it, and made it unbearable.
It is understood that after 2018, many countries in Africa are facing the problem of drought, and the last time it was international help that let them come out, did they have to help international friends to face the same problem? If you don't know how to change yourself, only know how to rely on others, the final consequences must be unacceptable to yourself.