| Mortality during famines was rarely caused solely by starvation but from related diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and typhus. |
| Experts believe that the North Korean system is in terminal decline, and its people suffer great poverty and recurring famines. |
| Such mild, culinary euphemisms muffled and camouflaged the enforced famines and the murders of millions. |
| The famines were natural disasters caused by successive years of rainfall failure, but they were exacerbated by other factors. |
| The gruesome massacres and murders, the famines and disease, the corruption and suffering of post-colonial Africa have deepened the darkness. |
| But in the developed, Western world, the feasting periods are no longer interspersed with famines. |
