India wants to withdraw Indian citizenship to four million people

India wants to withdraw Indian citizenship from four million people living in the state of Assam, on the border with Bangladesh, where there is a very large Muslim community, which equates to about 34% of the state's population. The measure, not yet final and officially taken to identify irregular migrants, has been criticized by several human rights organizations, who have accused the government of Prime Minister Narenda Modi, right and nationalist, of wanting to favor the majority Hindu at the expense of minorities who inhabit India, including Muslims (a charge of this kind to the Modi government was also made for the history of lynching against immigrants and members of minorities because of the propagation of fake messages on WhatsApp).

Four million people who will likely be deprived of citizenship were excluded from a list – a sort of national citizenship registry – established by the government and released on Monday. The people of Assam, about 34 million people, had to demonstrate that they lived in that state before 1971, when hundreds of thousands of people arrived in India to escape the war of violence. Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan. According to the Indian government, people who lived in Assam before 1971 are Indian citizens, others not. Today, the fear of many human rights organizations is that the history of the register of citizenship is the prelude to the mbad expulsion of Assam Muslims. even if their destination is not clear

. those excluded from the citizenship register will be able to appeal and their files will be examined by the competent authorities from 30 August, while the final list will be finalized in December. But not everyone thinks so: Avaaz, a US-based human rights group, said there was no body in the United States. And that the people excluded from the lists did not have enough time to defend themselves. [19659002D'autresorganisationsdedéfensedesdroitsdel'hommeontsoulignéqueladécisionderetirerlacitoyennetéàquatremillionsd'IndiensestsimilaireàcellequiafaitdugouvernementduMyanmaren1982contrelesRohingyasuneminoritéethniquedereligionmusulmanepersécutéebrutalementdepuisdesdécenniesparlegouvernementBirmanie

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Assam is the only Indian state where there is an obligation to be registered in a citizenship register. The reason, written on Times of India is precisely related to the issue of illegal immigration from Bangladesh, a Muslim country. Proponents of the citizenship register say that Muslims are trying to change the state's demography to the detriment of Hindus, for example by illegally participating in elections. In Assam, however, tensions between different religious groups have long existed. One of the most serious incidents of violence occurred in 1983, when more than 2,000 people suspected of being illegal migrants were killed in one day in the city of Nellie: they were all Muslim and there were many children