The Swadeshi Movement

Protests have had made great impacts; big and small. However, there is a question on how much protests are proven successful. These protests rather peaceful or hawkish, define a successful protest as a protest that has fully solved the problem or reason of protest.

The Swadeshi Movement took place in Bengal in the early 1900s. This protest was to prevent and stop the Partition of Bengal. It was proven effective and also they protested by partaking in rallies, bonfires and labor strikes. Also with the help of “outraged members of the Indian National Congress who opposed the decision to join in a boycott of British goods and encouraged people to buy Indian made goods (called Swadeshi). The Swadeshi Movement gained a large following among educated

The protests was fought for the US to stop intervening with Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In the event, the National Guard shot and killed several students protesting. This protest specifically wasn’t proven to be successful because of the shootings. The opposition to the protest was the US government since they were at war with Vietnam. The protest used peaceful tactics. “The guardsmen then retraced their line of march. Some demonstrators followed as close as 20 yards, but most were between 60 and 75 yards behind the guard. Near the crest of Blanket Hill, the guard turned and 28 guardsmen fired between 61 and 67 shots in 13 seconds toward the parking lot. Four persons lay dying and nine wounded. The closest casualty was 20 yards and the farthest was almost 250 yards away. All 13 were students at Kent State University.” The Kent State Demonstrations; based off the definition of a protest stated, was not proven successful. The protest was not proven successful, because many students died in the protests with no result in the United States ceasing their involvement in the Vietnam War. To compare the Kent State Demonstrations with the Swadeshi Movement, one protest met its goal while the other failed in tragedy, and the Arab Spring had similarities to the Kent State Demonstrations by being a protest involving the opposition of the government and the intervention of

The protest asked for political and economic reform, inflation, nepotism, corruption and a more democratic government. "On April 22, 1989, hundreds of thousands gathered outside the Great Hall of the People to mourn the death of a leader who tried to champion the cause of greater democracy in a country still withered by corruption, inflation, and a seemingly undying ruling regime of remnants from the mid-twentieth century past.” Weeks later, a hunger strike containing about 300,000 students occurred days before the visit of the President of the USSR; Mikhail Gorbachev. After a week, a martial law was placed; which caused military to intervene and violently end the protest and take the lives of hundreds. Based off the information, the Tiananmen Square Massacre wasn’t successful. The Tiananmen Square Massacre and protests that occurred wasn’t proved successful because, hundreds or more were killed or injured, pro-democracy leaders were rather exiled or imprisoned, political and economic reforms halted or delayed and the media became tightly controlled. The Tiananmen Square Massacre had many similarities and differences with the Swadeshi Movement, Arab Spring and Kent State Demonstrations. They were similar to each movement since the majority of protests against the government was peaceful. However the massacre unlike the others didn’t end or have an extremely high death count, with the