200 thousand Indian farmers commit suicide

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16 February 2009 (200 thousand Indian farmers commit suicide)

Almost 200,000 Indian farmers are known to have committed suicide due to the debts that resulted from imposed economic globalization.

Imagine how much better it would have been if they had mobilized politcally instead.