Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP
Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP
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Abandoned in Assam: India creates its own Rohingya, and calls them ‘Bangladeshi’

  • Mass statelessness looms for millions after harrowing, often fatal, citizenship test to find illegal immigrants
  • Project to showcase Hindu primacy threatens to disenfranchise both Hindu and Muslim Bengali speakers

Topic |   India
Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Updated: 12:23am, 31 Aug, 2019

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Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP
Assam residents queue under guard to check their names against the National Register of Citizens list. Photo: AFP
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