19th September 2006, 18:14 | #1 |
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How messed up is this?
BHADUMARI, India — Here in the center of India, on a gray Wednesday morning, a cotton farmer swallowed a bottle of pesticide and fell dead at the threshold of his small mud house.
The farmer, Anil Kondba Shende, 31, left behind a wife and two small sons, debts that his family knew about only vaguely and a soggy, ruined 3.5-acre patch of cotton plants that had been his only source of income. Whether it was debt, shame or some other privation that drove Mr. Shende to kill himself rests with him alone. But his death was by no means an isolated one, and in it lay an alarming reminder of the crisis facing the Indian farmer. Across the country in desperate pockets like this one, 17,107 farmers committed suicide in 2003, the most recent year for which government figures are available. Anecdotal reports suggest that the high rates are continuing. |
19th September 2006, 21:42 | #3 |
Optimus lame.
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
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Re: How messed up is this?
didn't someone post shit like this a couple months ago?
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19th September 2006, 22:09 | #4 |
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Re: How messed up is this?
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19th September 2006, 22:40 | #5 |
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Re: How messed up is this?
17k farmers out of how many billions of dothead fagg0ts in Hindustan?
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