ASSAM – After committing gross human rights’ violations in Occupied Kashmir, Modi-led Hindu nationalist Indian government has decided to use ‘citizenship issue’ to target one-third of Assam state’s minority Muslim community to strip them of their citizenship.
The Indian government has deployed tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police in the north-eastern state of Assam to tighten the security after it has published a disputable citizenship list under the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Coming just weeks after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) government, in violation of United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s decades-old autonomy; the NRC too is expected to go down as one of the biggest moves in Modi’s second term.
The move has made the human rights experts voice concerned fearing that it could lead towards a humanitarian crisis that disproportionately affects Muslims and the region’s poorest communities.
