Thread by @rupikaur_

international media-especially @nytimes recent problematic coverage of the #farmersprotest has provided india the global cover it needs to brutalize citizens. these misinformed articles enable hindutva mobs to riot in a country w a terrible history of state-sponsored violence

intl media: you were silent last year when bjp leaders incited violence and sent mobs to kill people in delhi. you’re silent again as the same scenes are happening once more..

https://twitter.com/WorldSikhOrg/status/1355223817405292547

there are so many brilliant people who work at intl media outlets. i admire so many of you. yet your silence while your employers resort to whitewashing the modi govt is heartbreaking. please ask why none of the following is being covered. if possible—push for better:

farmers protest sites outside delhi are sealed off by police. so how are goons being allowed to enter and attack? doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.

https://twitter.com/psgazi/status/1355208576013230088

please follow regional news orgs and citizen journalists who aren’t swayed by india’s deeply problematic nationalist media. there is so much blatant and endless evidence of police-mob complicity.

https://twitter.com/sialmirzagoraya/status/1355179844687048705

petrol bombs and tear gas shells are being launched at protesting farmers!!

https://twitter.com/punyaab/status/1355155447129362439

human rights orgs allege that over 400 farmers have gone missing over the last few days. where are they? are they in police custody? where is your reporting? families in punjab are terrified bc dozens from their villages are missing

https://twitter.com/khalramission/status/1355195739043840005

there are numerous cases like that of nodeep kaur, a protestor who has been arrested and was sexually assaulted while under police custody.

https://twitter.com/harjit__kaur/status/1352783147822321665

why has there been no coverage of the events at ghazipur protest site on the night of jan 28th when bjp leaders—already implicated in last year’s mob violence—surrounded the protest along with security forces and threatened to attack?

https://twitter.com/nandyasmita/status/1354806840102543362

the internet is shut for the next 24 hours in haryana. it’s also being shut at the protest sites. even media orgs aren’t able to broadcast from there.

https://twitter.com/punyaab/status/1355114393567023104

why is there no coverage about all the calls of genocide against sikhs from police-aligned mobs both on twitter and the ground?

this collusion of police and government mobs is reminiscent of the violence in the lead up to the sikh genocide of june 1984

instead intl media and their lazy- dangerous- bias reporting fails us again and again and again. these institutions are just as disappointing as the corrupt govt’s- billionaires- conglomerates who sell people for profit. fuck em !!!!!

#KisaanmazdoorEktaZindabaad