[yankeedame]

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India

Please excuse display of ignorance, but how did this all come about? Who came up with the idea? Who organized it? Chattisgarh is a fairly large state Did someone -- or some group -- travel throughout the state looking for and/or convincing participants in this? How is it that no one in any sort of authority, even a local school teacher, didn't get wind of this and report it? B/c they kept it a secret? All 1,500 + their families? All of them? It would be on the scale of someone traveling around Nebraska trying to convince 1,500 farmers to commit suicide all at once. And how did these Indian farmers do it:"All together now...One...Two..."

[ConservativeMan55]

They didn’t do it all at once lol

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

That was what I mentioned earlier. These are individual suicides, with individual reasons for the same, but largely related to debts.


You must remember roughly 70% of India's adult population are farmers, and it won't be a big coincidence that most people who commit suicide, are farmers as well.

Like I said, the whole article is based on journalistic word-play. They are making it sound as if it was one of those Jonestown-esque mass-suicides.


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