Major funding for this book was made possible by deliberately starving a family of four in Tennessee.
Also, many editors found it hard to believe a state would deliberately starve millions of its own people.
If the old white regime here was deliberately starving its people, the world would be in an uproar.
The doctor claims to have documented more than a thousand cases of orphans who were deliberately starved to death.
An estimated one million people have been displaced inside the country, and a United Nations report this week said the government was deliberately starving some.
That a state would deliberately starve millions of its people seemed shockingly implausible.
He also denied that the Army had deliberately starved three million Soviet prisoners-of-war to death in 1941-42.
Warlords deliberately starve a region, then steal the food aid and the vehicles it arrives in.
On Neptune they were deliberately starved, kept heavily ironed, and frequently refused access to the deck.
"Most are physically and mentally stunted, as they are deliberately starved to prevent weight gain."