Famine in Northern Vietnam in 1945!

It was a humanitarian disaster with around 2 million people starving to death, happened at Northern Vietnam from 10/1944 to 05/1945. Many villages had around 50 – 80% of population was death by starve. Many families and descendants had no one survive. It was a main result of horror Indochina war.

At that time, Vietnam was being occupied by France and Japan. Due to serving for war, they were exploiting utterly Vietnam’s outdated agriculture. While Japan was collecting rice for delivering to its country, France was reserving foods for the fighting with Japan or the re-invading Vietnam. The chaos of military and politics happened consecutively were impacting negative to produce foods of the land which was still being insufficient.

In the World War II, Vietnam was occupied by Japan, thus America usually bombed Vietnam’s routine transportation to attack Japan. The result was the transportation system of Indochina was destroyed.

Besides, natural disaster, flood and insect caused crop failure were also strongly influential into this famine of Vietnam.

Photo: By documentation