Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship

Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship

Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship

By / Politics / Monday, 30 July 2018 16:03

India has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove they came to the state by 24 March 1971, a day before neighbouring Bangladesh declared independence.

India says the process is needed to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants.

 

Read more at BBC News.

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