1/5. The Indian Jawan is a Kisan in uniform. And among the lakhs of peasants at Delhi’s gates is this group of 6 war heroes and veterans who have between them won over 50 medals in wars they’ve fought for India. (story link at end of thread)
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2/5. “When we fought the wars, our parents were on the land, farming. Now our children are at the borders, and we do the farming,” says Colonel Jaswinder Singh Garcha (retd.), in his seventies.
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3/5. ‘This is one of the world's biggest revolutions happening right now, at the gates of Delhi,’ says Brig. Gill (retd.), 72, soldier and farmer. ‘I fail to fathom why government is not repealing the laws, which it should have done already.’
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4/5. They are attempting to divide the protestors, warns Col. Garcha, “on the lines of religion, saying, ‘you are a Sikh or a Muslim or a Hindu’, or on lines of region, ‘you are a Punjabi, a Haryanvi, or a Bihari’.”
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5/5. Several war veterans intend to return their medals to the President of India if the government remains adamant. They are deeply wounded, too, by the media demonising the protestors as terrorists and Khalistanis.
https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/war-heroes-in-new-battles-for-farmers/
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