The Grim Reaper: Major farmer protests around the world in the past 100 years
One of the largest protests in human history got the world's attention as hundreds of thousands of farmers marched to India's capital and set up camp at its borders to protest the new farm laws. As this visual survey of past protests show, farmers the world over have been trapped by bureaucratic and oppressive government policies, exploitation by landholders, crippling debts, losses on marketed goods, and devastating weather, leading to some significant protests in those countries
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
NAMIBIA, 1904
When Germans established a colony of South West Africa (present day Namibia) at the end of the 19th century, acquisition of land was central to their colonial agenda. Relations between the Germans and the local Herero tribes began to deteriorate as the settlers grabbed land and livestock. Soon revolts began and the bloody war brought about the first genocide of the 20th century
