The NRC in Assam doesn’t just violate human rights of millions – it also breaks international law
India has defaulted on its international obligations by interning people in detention centres and depriving them of their right to nationality. Money Sharma/AFP
More than a year since the final list of Assam’s National Register of Citizens was released on August 31, 2019, the government has neither formally notified itnor issued orders to reject it. This has left the 1,906,657 excluded persons and their families in a state of excruciating uncertainty. Without the orders, they cannot appeal against their exclusion.
The government defends the National Register of Citizens as a mechanism to identify undocumented migrants, particularly Bangladeshis, but at the diplomatic level, it maintains that the register is a purely internal matter. Operating detention centres in a legal vacuum, it interned thousands of people declared as foreigners. And had it not been for successive court
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