Starvation

The world is on the brink of a hunger pandemic as the coronavirus continues to spread, World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said on April 21.

Member of the UN Human Rights Committee's Advisory Council Jean Ziegler thinks that "the Third World War" is already in progress.

In an interview for the Vienna daily Kurier, he pointed out that 54 million people last year died as a consequence of wars, starvation, contaminated water, or "long vanquished epidemics."

Aid workers scrambled Jan. 15 to help a hunger-stricken Syrian town where a teenager became the latest victim to succumb to starvation, as Western powers sought U.N. action on lifting blockades.

Vintage clips from the archive of the Greek War Museum. The video claims that Greece lost 13% of its population as a result of Nazi atrocities. The video shows people starving as Nazis rode around in motorbikes and tanks. Footage refers to the agreement of March 14, 1942, that forced Greece to  pay $US3.5 bln.