6 hours agoIndia in distress from overcrowding, plans to remove five million people
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Nearly five million people east of India in the state of Assam are close to deportation after a government official said they have failed to document that they are citizens living in 1971. The danger comes from the government of Assam, who has published a preliminary list of citizens involved in the Nacional Register. [...]
The danger comes from the government of Assam, which has published a preliminary list of citizens included in the National Book of Citizens (NRC).
Authorities say the update process conducted for the first time since six decades has been aimed at uncovering and deporting undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh.
But critics have condemned the effort, saying it threatens that Muslim citizens and the long-term refugees of Bangladesh's descendants are devoid of citizenship like Mianmar's treatment of the Ringya minority.
Assam is home to more than 32 million people, where a third of them are Muslims, reports “Al Jazeera”, Periscopi broadcast.
An NRC official, Prateek Hayela, has said that about 4, 8 million in Assam “have failed to provide appropriate inheritance documents”.
The Hindu nationalist Janata Bharatiya party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power in Assam in 2016, has vowed to expel people who are not listed in the NRC.
All names that are not found in the NRC will be deported,” said Himanta Bissa Sarma, minister of health and finance.
He said the local government has mobilised more than 400,000 police and paramilitary troops on the state border prior to the list's publication./Periscopi/
