India strips 4 million of citizenship

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Source: BBC

India has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove they came to the state by 24 March 1971, a day before neighbouring Bangladesh declared independence.

India says the process is needed to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants.

But it has sparked fears of a witch hunt against Assam's ethnic minorities.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45002549

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70 years later Cyril Radcliffe's pencil marks on a map are still killing people. He never set foot in Bengal at any point of the process.

[marble falls]

1. Unbelievable. This ought to fuel violence. I remember the partitioning and it was horrific.

[IronLionZion]

2. Cyril Radcliffe, who has never been east of Paris

was knighted for his efforts to draw the boundary lines.

Meanwhile, India's prime minister is Trumpier than Trump, and openly encourages bigotry and violence between religions (in the US it would be race). Gaining and maintaining power through dividing people against each other. Assholes.

Indian Bengalis are just like Bangladeshi Bengalis, just different religions. Same with Indian Punjabis and Pakistani Punjabis. Anyone would find it hard to tell the difference between them based on culture, language, food, clothing, etc. Just religion.

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3. And even Bengali Hinduism is different from the Hinduism further west

I don't think I ever saw a Ganesh in Kolkata, or a Durga in Mumbai.

[dembotoz]

4. its gonna get worse

Bangladesh as in the whole damn country is gonna be underwater due to climate change.
india does not want millions of refugees....that is millions......

gonna get worse

[Bayard]

5. Taking a page from tRump's playbook.

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6. Or vice-versa: Modi was the pioneer of this kind of politics recently

IMO Putin was watching India's 2014 elections with interest

[LeftInTX]

7. Doesn't India have some of the strictest citizenship laws in the world?

Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt who was born in Mumbai, India in 1993 is not an Indian citizen. Her mother is a British citizen. (Although her mother is of Indian ancestry) I think both Alia and her mother prefer to have a British passport and India does not accept dual citizenship. I know Alia would have to renounce her British citizenship, but don't know what else she would have to do to become an Indian citizen.

Alia Bhatt (pronounced [ɑ:ˈliːə bʱ?]; born 15 March 1993) is an actress and singer of Indian origin and British citizenship, who works in Hindi films

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8. Yes, but they have lax residency and work requirements for people of Indian origin

They have so many UK and Portuguese (and now, US) citizens of Indian origin that they make it easy for them to come back to India and live/work (or just take the retirement system of their new country).

[LeftInTX]

9. Aahhh....

[JI7]

10. looks like they are trying to stop the increase in the Muslim population in the country

and the decrease in Hindus.

fuck modi and the bjp and the rest of the hindu thugs.

[JI7]

11. wish they would strip the rapists and other sexual assaulters of their citizenship