An event with an exogenous cause due to ignorance does not qualify as genocide. I'd go with Daniel Goldhagen for matters of genocide ( or in his parlance, elim

An event with an exogenous cause due to ignorance does not qualify as genocide. I'd go with Daniel Goldhagen for matters of genocide ( or in his parlance, eliminationism.) Professional historians in good standing do not classify the famine as genocide. The Victorian version of "free market" was just bizarre enough to accelerate the disaster. No explicit or implicit desire to kill people is in evidence.