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>> I'm not following how normal (census, social security etc) government people registries are connected to the detention centers This is anything but a normal
by l8again 7y ago
>> I'm not following how normal (census, social security etc) government people registries are connected to the detention centers
This is anything but a normal registry. NRC (National Register of Citizens) effectively strips about 2 million people of their nationality in the north-eastern state of Assam [1]. Even the ones who have lived their entire lives are put on the NRC list if they can't prove their ancestors (not just them) didn't come to the state prior to March 24, 1971. In most cases, they are asked to produce birth certificates of their parents [2]. They have a large poor and uneducated population that won't have birth certificates. In fact, birth certificates weren't commonly issued in India for decades post-independence. And when they realized that it's not just the Muslims that will be impacted by this, Modi introduced Citizenship Amendment Bill [2] that openly declares to grant Indian nationality to anyone who is persecuted in a nearby country — except if they're Muslim. It is in this context that the detention centers are being built [2]. They are not even pretending anymore - xenophobia is the only excuse.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49520593 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49520593
[2] https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/721188838/millions-in-india-face-uncertain-future-after-being-left-off-citizenship-list https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/721188838/millions-in-india-f...
- sbmthakur 7y agoCitizenship bill was introduced long before NRC's final list was out.
- l8again 7y agoNRC had already been introduced. The final list was out later. Doesn't change anything about the point being made.
- sbmthakur 7y agoCitizenship bill was first introduced in 2016. And the final NRC list was out in 2019. How would the Government know three years in advance that a large number of people from one particular religion will be out from the list?
- l8again 7y agoThat still doesn't make discriminating against a religion OK, does it? NRC timeline is irrelevant here.
- sbmthakur 7y agoDiscrimination against any religion is not OK and NRC has been religion-agnostic. So, I fail to see your point.
- kamaal 7y agoNRC is a list(Table). Tables are not laws. Table is data on which you apply the laws. The Citizenship Amendment Bill has been designed precisely for this purpose. Your name wasn't included in the NRC? As long as you are not a Muslim you don't have to worry. Because non-Muslims get a blanket citizenship(per CAB), or in other words blanket inclusion into NRC.
- alkonaut 7y ago> strips about 2 million people of their nationality That's a fantastic argument for why it's bad. "This isn't a normal registry". Thanks. I wonder why the previous person couldn't make that argument. Another person argued a risk that it would contain an element of ethnical/religious register, which is also a bad sign. What I was trying to argue was that a register is not by definition a bad thing. There is something about it that is bad. Such that its implementation is discriminating, for example.