India's farmers have been camped outside Delhi for most of winter, and many have died in the extreme conditions.
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Protestors like Nodeep Kaur are reported to have been tortured and sexually assaulted in jail by Dehli police.
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Whatever your opinion on India's farm laws, you can have a healthy discussion. But then when a government of a democratic country takes steps that are unjust, it doesn't go well.
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Three-quarters of rural Indian women work in agriculture, a sector that has been left behind in the three-decade boom ushered in by the country’s economic liberalization.
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This government Of India has already shown a willingness to unilaterally enact sweeping policy changes that expose its most vulnerable people to potential disaster.
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The farmers protest began when the Indian government passed three laws in September 2020 which, broadly, opened up the agricultural market to privatization.
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Farmers fear that the new rules will also make it easier for corporations to exploit agricultural workers and help big companies drive down prices.
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Implementing drastic policy changes without regard for democratic process is, however, the new norm in Mr. Modi's government.
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The Dehli police beat protesters while they slept on the streets, and right-wing nationalists have used violence to disrupt farmers protest sites.
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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One of the Anti Agri laws prevents India's farmers from being able to take companies to court if they violate contracts to buy farmers' products in any way.
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Even Twitter has bowed to indian government pressure by suspending the accounts of journalists, protesters, sympathizers and opposition politicians; while some of these accounts were later restored.
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The argument [that citizens of other countries should stay out of India's affairs] doesn't hold water because people in India talk about foreign affairs.
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The BJP's increasingly authoritarian bent is blatantly on display in how it has reacted to the largely peaceful farmer protests.
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Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been protesting in and around the capital, New Delhi, over new rules and regulations that they say could impoverish them.
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India's Farmers fear that the new agricultural laws will enable big corporations to snatch up market control in the agricultural sector.
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