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Vietnam war: Vietnam's Starvation in 1975

Vietnam's Starvation in 1975 a famine in northern Vietnam between October 1944 and May 1945 to range from 400,000 to 2 million people die.

Cause

Caused by heavy taxation for many years, the use of tax measures beating strong feudal style if not paid in full, no exemptions for poor households which farmers are required to sell assets or food should not have to pay tax reserve food.

The direct cause is the consequence of the war in Indochina. The relevant powers such as France, Japan and the United States intervened in Vietnam and caused many disasters affect economic life of Vietnamese people. The military movements and political avalanche occurred north inherently cause rice shortage should be as hungry. No formal statistical analysis related to France and Japan.

Indirect causes are economic reforms aimed at serving the needs of the war the French colonial regime in Vietnam, as in France, then at war, and was also occupied

These forces tend resistance politics - national and non-national - are also worried rare hoard food in the danger situation, especially the resistance forces by Vietnam movement control

There are not exactly number of people who died of starvation , but some sources estimate that from 400,000 to 2 million people death in this time by starvation . May 1945 , seven months after famine broke out in the north , the court 's ambassadors in Hanoi, Hue court ordered the northern province of loss report . There are 20 provinces reported deaths from starvation in the north is more than 380,000 , died of disease - unexplained - is more than 20,000 , a total of 400,000 own north . October 1945 , as reported by a French military officer in Indochina as it is mordant Minister about half a million people are dead . French Governor General Jean Decoux then write in his memoirs about the ruling period in Indochina " Oh la barre de l' Indochine " - is there 1 million people starved North . The Vietnam historians estimate that between 1 and 2 million . Many historians later referred to 1 million while the number of people living in the North as it is prone to number 2 million , Ho Chi Minh City is mentioned in a Declaration of Independence September 2, 1945 .

After Independence Day, President Ho Chi Minh has raised six most pressing issues that the government should immediately and solve the problem of hunger relief 1: "Our people are hungry ... starving survivors, this was also hungry. How do we let them live ... ".