The farmers protests that Rihanna and Greta Thunberg have referenced in recent tweets have been going on for since last year after the government passed legislation meant to reform the agriculture sector in India. Many Indian farmers believe that these reforms were meant to help corporations take a controlling interest in India's food production giving them the ability to dominate the market. While driving individual farmers out of business.
Singer’s message had made reference to news report about heavy-handed measures against protesters
The pop singer Rihanna has provoked the ire of the Indian government after wading into the debate over protests by farmers in the country, just as heavy police security and “war-like” barricades continue to be built up at demonstration sites around Delhi.
This week authorities began cracking down on the hundreds of thousands of farmers camped out on the Delhi border since November. Police embarked on a heavy fortification of three camps in Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu, erecting layers of concrete barriers, digging trenches, putting up barbed-wire fences and cementing iron nails in the roads, in effect cutting off entry and exit to the sites.
Naturally the Modi government being the good authoritarians that they are. Leaped for the authoritarian play book and began accusing "outside influences" for the continued protests by the farmers.
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