ATS Weekly: Edition 019
November 29, 2005
Quarantine and Starvation: A Standard
Depopulation Strategy
Quarantine and starvation is a standard depopulation strategy. Used historically to take cities, the strategy prevents travel, blocks shipping,
starves the people, and finally, depopulates the area under siege. Modern quarantine and starvation strategies target and depopulate much larger
regions. Often described as "genocide," modern depopulation schemes are actually more about class than nationality or race - the wealthy and
connected can bypass quarantines. Three modern campaigns illustrate contemporary quarantine and depopulation tactics: the 1932-1934 Genocide/Famine in
the Ukraine; the quarantine ghettoes and exterminations in Nazi Germany; and the current Sudan Genocide. In addition, US actions like the Model
Emergency Health Powers Act and the CDC's proposed new quarantine rules can be seen as legal precursors to a quarantine and depopulation campaign in
the USA.
News of the Weird
Authorities in Nepal urged religious groups and scientists on Sunday to help solve the mystery of a meditating teenaged boy who some believe is an
incarnation of Buddha. At least 100,000 devotees from Nepal and neighbouring India have flocked in recent weeks to a dense forest in southeastern
Nepal to see 15-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon, who, his associates say, has been meditating without food or water for six months. Shanta Raj Subedi,
district administrator of Bara, 150 km southeast of Kathmandu and where the boy is meditating, said he had requested the Lumbini Development Trust, a
Buddhist panel, and the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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