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Pierra Willix

Churchill display removed from National Portrait Gallery after famine dispute

The row relates to the role Sir Winston Churchill played in the 1943 Bengal famine - (PA)

A video installation in the National Portrait Gallery has been removed following a dispute about the role Sir Winston Churchill played in the 1943 Bengal famine.

The 40-minute piece, titled Persistence, by 2019 Turner Prize winner Helen Cammock had referred to “the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill”.

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