Assam NRC: Are India’s ‘unwanted people’ being driven to suicide?

Pedro_P

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▼ Four million people have been effectively stripped of their Indian citizenship in Assam as part of a drive to rid the state of "illegal migrants". Some facing possible deportation have taken their own lives, relatives and activists say.
One day in May, 88-year-old Ashraf Ali told his family he was going to fetch food to break his Ramadan fast. Instead, he took poison and killed himself.
Mr Ali and his family had been included in a list of people deemed to have proven they were "Indian". But his inclusion was challenged by a neighbour, and Mr Ali was summoned to prove his citizenship again, failing which he would be detained.
"He feared he would be taken to a detention centre and his name excluded from the final list," fellow villager Mohammed Ghani said.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) - as the list in Assam is called - was created in 1951 to determine who was born in the state and is Indian, and who might be a migrant from neighbouring, Muslim-majority East Pakistan, as it was known then. It is now called Bangladesh.
The register is being updated for the first time. It counts as Indian citizens those who can prove they were residents of Assam before 24 March 1971 - the day before Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan.
India's government says the register is needed to identify illegal migrants to the state. Last July, the government published a "final draft" of the list which left out about four million people currently living in Assam. They are overwhelmingly ethnic Bengali, both Hindus and Muslims.
Earlier this week the authorities announced that another 100,000 Assam residents, included in the NRC last year, had now been excluded from the register and must prove their citizenship all over again.
More than half of the total number are appealing against their exclusion, before the final version of the NRC is released on 31 July.
Added to the registration exercise, scores of tribunals have been set up in the state since the late 1980s. They regularly identify "doubtful voters" or "illegal infiltrators" as foreigners to be deported.
Both the citizen's register and the tribunals have sparked fears of a witch hunt against Assam's ethnic minorities. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Pedro_P

It is possible that my memory fails a little, but I believe that India is one of the countries with the most migrants distributed around the world... It may be necessary to look for update statistics about it.
However, I think that it is a bit like looking at the straw in someone else's eye, when one have so many migrants from own country in other countries... I do not know in detail the situation of India with respect to immigration in its territory, however, it does not seem very different from the situation of other places receiving immigration.
However, I agree with the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, when asked to him: Why do liberals reject nationalism?
... «Because it is incompatible with freedom. You just need to scratch the surface to see that nationalism involves a kind of racism. If you believe that you belong to a certain country or nation or race or religion is a privilege, a value in itself, you believe you are superior to others. And racism inevitably leads to violence and the suppression of freedom. That is why liberalism from the times of Adam Smith you have perceived this kind of collectivism in nationalism - the rejection of reason for an act of faith.»

Rhett_Bassard

Pedro_P 29-6-2019 03:18 AM
It is possible that my memory fails a little, but I believe that India is one of the countries with  ...

Indian migrants?! Where?
I'll wager there's not one within 500 meters of where I live in rural, deep South, USA.
That excludes the local motel. All US motels are run by Gujarati.

Pedro_P

Rhett Bassard 29-6-2019 04:10 PM
Indian migrants?! Where?
I'll wager there's not one within 500 meters of where I live in rural, d ...

Well, USA by antonomasia, is the country of migration, it built itself thanks to immigration... But the human being, since it emerged as a species and since its inception, has been a migrant animal... In some point of Africa, emigration began, and has continued to this day.
By the way, I found this data... My memory was not so wrong, it still works...
https://translate.googleusercont ... on/emigracion/india

Pedro_P

pkb 29-6-2019 11:55 PM
actulally you are right but not a singal migrated indian involed in any crimnal activity , all are ...

Certainly, each country has its own policies and laws, if someone (Indian or foreigner) violates the laws, undoubtedly the justice system must do its job. However, the policies of a country should not be focused on a person and based on their racial or ethnic origin.
Otherwise, the country would turn into a country where humanity would not have a value. One should not become what he hates or detests, because otherwise, one will end up hating or detesting oneself.
I think that better, more civilized ways of dealing with this situation could be developed, people above all are human, and no one chooses the place of our birth or our nationality.
If a country like India, or any other developing country, wishes to effectively achieve a superlative level of development, it must then give the apropiate signals and take steps in that direction... Feeding animosities, or blaming others for our misfortunes and problems, it is something that only shows our weakness and fears... I know, because in my country, doing it is almost a national sport.

soothsayer

phew! wonder where that streak comes from! migrants under normal circumstances try to mingle and even forget their roots at times. lingual proximity brings them closer. I think when immigration becomes a by product of crises or war, they tend to be aberrant folks. Migrant problems remain a big challenge in Europe too after the Croatian wars. Crime in Greece has multiplied several fold!

chanakyakripa

There is a difference between legal & illegal migration. India has suffered a lot for this illegal immigrants. Nrc is a requirement. If one has the right documents, why need to fear!