Branded as ‘infiltrators’, Muslims in India’s Assam fear for future

In this photograph taken on July 1, 2019, Mohammed Rehat Ali , 71, one of many to fall foul of a citizenship process in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. — AFP

“I have never expected that I would have to prove my citizenship. I am an Indian citizen, we are born here in Assam and living here for generations,“ Ali, an illiterate farmer, toldBut when he was unable to produce the required documents, a “Foreigners’ Tribunal” declared him a Bangladeshi and sent him to a detention camp.

Those excluded have been able to appeal, but up to two million people could be left off a final list due at the end of this month, reports say. He was sent to a detention camp in May due to a mismatch in his papers. Police even seized his old uniform and he was only granted interim bail after an outcry.Those who fail to make the cut have to go to one of around 100 “Foreigners Tribunals” currently in place. Another 200 are being set up.According to online magazine Scroll, Assam’s coalition government, which is led by Modi’s party, has removed tribunal members if their “performance” falls short.

Home Minister Amit Shah has called for the ejection of “termites” and said before the BJP’s election victory in May that it would “run a countrywide campaign to send back the infiltrators”.

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