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Originally Posted by friendly hardline atheist
Ok.
Wikipedia is not the most reliable source, but the wide spectrum of estimates there covers dozens of millions. From
Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Experts widely believe that the government seriously under-reported death tolls. Several professors and scholars have estimated that the number of "abnormal deaths" ranged from 17 million to 50 million. Some western analysts such as Patricia Buckley Ebrey estimate that about 20-40 million people had died of starvation caused by bad government policy and natural disasters. J. Banister estimates this number is about 23 million. Li Chengrui, a former minister of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, estimated 22 million (1998). His estimation was based on Ansley J. Coale and Jiang Zhenghua's estimation of 17 million. Cao Shuji estimated 32.5 million.
greets,
Peter
ps: hope I didn't offend you with the blunt appraisal of your post |
Yeah you did offend me. I had no idea we had a post rating system going. and wow ... i made a typo, and put an extra 0 in 30. Not that hard of a mistake to make.