Another
major humanitarian crisis is emerging fast. This time is in the Assam State, in
India. There has been a population registration process there. It is now
completed. It shows around 1.9 million people left out of citizenship rights.
Prime Minister Modi’s officials say these people have no ground to call
themselves Indians. No identification, no citizenship means, in Modi’s India, expulsion,
deportation to Bangladesh, of all places. And Bangladesh, that is already
coping with the Rohingyas from Myanmar, says they will not recognise these
people as citizens.
A
new mass tragedy in a world that likes to talk about human rights, democracy
and social progress.
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