As soon as any protest occurs in Bharat, human rights groups get activated, demanding ‘accountability’ from the government. The same groups conveniently look the other way in the West. The recent police crackdown on farmer protests in the Netherlands is a case in point.

According to an ABC News report:

A similar situation was witnessed in Canada when the Trudeau government declared an emergency to quell truckers’ protests. In late January this year, thousands of Canadian truckers and their supporters descended on Canada’s capital Ottawa to oppose the government’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement for truckers crossing the border into the US, which has the same policy. On February 6, Ontario province, where Ottawa is located, declared a state of emergency to quell the convoy protests.

Despite no violence during the protests, Canadian cops abused ordinary citizens by issuing hundreds of tickets and arresting people, including the elderly. The city also threatened to arrest anyone who brought gas to the protestors, but hundreds of Ottawans defied those orders. When compared to the so-called farmer's protest, which crippled Bharat’s capital for a year and involved multiple incidents of violence, none worse than the anarchy unleashed by tractor-riding lumpens who stormed Delhi’s Red Fort on Bharat’s Republic Day (January 26, 2021) and left around 400 police personnel injured, the Ottawa protests were peaceful.

Another key difference is that the Ottawa protests seem genuine and organic, and the people involved are ordinary folks from all walks of life. The agitations in Bharat were staged, and as some rational voices in the West also acknowledged, the protests represented the interests of politically powerful (and heavily subsidized) remnants of Bharat’s traditional landlord communities.

Many Western countries and human rights activists have repeatedly been targeting Bharat. They have unnecessarily interfered in Bharat’s internal affairs, the CAA, or the farm laws. Several Western nations, including Australia, France, and Belgium, have witnessed large-scale Covid-related agitations. Even the UK saw a police crackdown on agitators protesting the rape and murder of a woman by a police constable.

These Western nations have enough dirt in their backyard to clean, but these nations don’t think twice before ignorantly and arrogantly commenting on actions taken by the ‘developing’ world. Human rights and other otherwise dormant and conveniently silent activists activate their international toolkits as soon as there are protests in Bharat.

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