Bitter Fruit of Capitalism: Poverty Causing People to Kill Themselves in Drought-Hit Thar
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Thirty-year-old Marubhat, a resident of Samo Bheel village - a two-hour drive from Chhachhro, Pakistan- decided to end her life on 23 August 2014, after she had failed to provide food for her children, as reported by Dawn Newspaper on 2nd September. Soon after her death, her home was visited by reporters and social workers where during interviews her family attributed the cause of her death to persistent financial problems.…
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