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I've heard on Reddit that the 1984 famine in Ethiopia that triggered Bob Geldof to organize Live Aid was a sort of holodomor, a deliberate famine orchestrated by Mengistu by withholding western food aid to rebellious areas of Ethiopia. Is there any evidence of this?

by /u/ffranglais in /r/AskHistorians

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