Assertion: dearth | /r/CapableOf | block burmese grain imports
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text: The other most notable famine of the century was the man-made Bengal famine of 1943, resulting more from the Japanese occupation of Burma, resulting in an influx of refugees, and blocking Burmese grain imports, a failure of the Bengali provincial Government to declare a famine, and fund relief, the imposition of grain and transport embargoes by the neighbouring provincial administrations, to prevent their own stocks being transferred to Bengal, the failure to implement India wide rationing by the central Delhi authority, hoarding and profiteering by merchants, medieval land management practices, an Axis powers denial program that confiscated boats once used to transport grain, programs of civil disobedience and sabotage to force an end of the British Raj, a Delhi administration that prioritised supplying, and offering medical treatment to the British Indian Army, War workers, and Civil servants, over the populous at large, incompetence and ignorance, and an Imperial War Cabinet initially leaving the issue to the Colonial administration to resolve, than to the original local crop failures, and blights.