India’s official effort to silence condemnation from overseas of the farmers’ protests by telling critics to keep off the country’s “internal matters” does not seem to have drawn the desired result going by the continuing chorus of support for the peasants.
On Tuesday, 75 organisations from the US and elsewhere brought out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times newspaper bearing a solidarity message for the farmers.
Paid for by the Ohio-based Justice for Migrant Women, the advertisement is essentially a solidarity statement of activists, farmers and civil society that also urges “all people who champion human rights in the United States and around the world to join us and condemn the abuses against farmers, labourers, and protesters in India”.