More than one famine for Senedd to debate

I READ with interest that a members’ debate on the Holodomor has been tabled in the Senedd tomorrow by Welsh Labour politician Alun Davies.

The Holodomor, Stalin’s deliberate creation of a famine in Ukraine that killed an estimated three-five million people or more in the 1930s is certainly a horror of history that must be remembered and its victims honoured, but when was the Senedd debate on the legacy of Britain’s imperial crimes?

For example, the Irish Famine in the 19th century that killed one million and drove another two million into exile – including 30,000 Irish immigrants to south Wales.

Or the 1943 Bengal Famine that killed four million.

Or even a discussion of the starvation crimes being inflicted on the people of Yemen and Afghanistan today?

No, these discussions never happen in the Welsh Parliament.

Adam Johannes Adamsdown, Cardiff