The famine that occurred in china from 1958 to 1960 is estimated to have killed about 25 million people. This is way it has been called a political crime and an ideological crime, which was discusses most extensively by Amartya Sen.
This is the part of his work for which he won the Nobel prize. Amartya Sen is an economist who regarded this as an Ideological crime with valid reason. He said that it was not a matter of intent, they did not want to kill anybody.
It is just that the ideological institutions were such that this happened. China was a totalitarian state. where the information about what was happening was not reaching the central government.
They could not take any action, because this happens in a totalitarian state, So it is a reflection of totalitarian institutions. It was a big massacre, there was no intention behind it.
How does the above passage classify the famine in the context of the atrocities of the twentieth century?
It is classified as one of the major atrocities, so that is the answer.
The passage calls it a big massacre.
It stresses there was no intention behind it.
Even so, it counts among the century's major atrocities.
It was not deliberate, minor or merely inevitable.
Hence the fourth option is correct.
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