Rummel said he was influenced to revise his figures upward after reading a pair of books, "Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China," by Jung Chang; and "Mao: the Unknown Story," which Jung wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday.
"From the biography of Mao, which I trust ? I can now say that yes, Mao's policies caused the famine. He knew about it from the beginning," Rummel said, adding Mao even "tried to take more food from the people to pay for his lust for international power, but was overruled by a meeting of 7,000 top Communist Party members."
However, the Socialists said the measure was offensive to former colonies and French citizens with roots there, and should be erased.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has equated the law with "mental blindness", and said it smacks of revisionism. Algeria's Parliament called it a "grave precedent".
The measure threatens to delay the signing of a friendship treaty between France and Algeria, which once was an integral part of France, just like Normandy.
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Eu sabia que esse comuna tinha morto mais do que se pensava...
In regards to the Mao article, it amazes me how the world can find entertainment and fashion out of 'communist kitsch', when millions of people died due to its terrible justified brutality; yet if one was to merchandise/market historical right wing dictatorship fashions (Nazis, Mussolini, African tyrants etc) they would be called offensive and in some places be arrested for it. Why is this so? A murderous regime should be reviled, no matter what side of the political spectrum they are from.
