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Sheep Farming Sparks Ethnic Cleansing
- Landlords cleared tenant villages to adopt 'high farming' sheep grazing, causing mass evictions.
- These evictions were ethnic cleansing to increase profits and modernize estates.
Dulo Lake Relief Tragedy
- Starving Irish endured a futile 16km march for relief only to be rejected and forced back in freezing rain.
- Several died on the return, illustrating brutal neglect and cruelty during the famine.
Ottoman Relief Amid British Embarrassment
- Ottoman Sultan Abdul Masid gave grain relief to starving Irish despite British objections.
- Turkish soldiers secretly unloaded grain to avoid embarrassing the British royal family.