'A nightmarish mess': millions in Assam brace for loss of citizenship
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In reality, India seems to be holding people in cages forever simply for being members of the wrong racial group, nothing more or less.
That is, of course, not a defense of the specific measures India is undertaking. But to deny India’s right to police it’s border is to deny Indians’ their self determination. (And I say that as a Bangladeshi. If the shoe were on the other foot, Bangladesh would react no differently.)
They have settled here illegally.
> Its not like India is so small that there isn't space for more people.
Actually yes India already has a population problem the last thing it needs is illegal immigrants further contributing to the problem. Although this is not politically correct but these people also have the very large number of children because of their religious teachings.
But they do. The "demographic difference" here is being made because India is vastly more varied culturally than you might be aware.
These are the folks who came through porus border from Bangladesh illegally.
But they hadn't been. Don't base your opinion on a single article. A lot of process was followed after decades of issues and finally on the order of Supreme Court.
In fact, the number of people identified by most counts is order of magnitude smaller than what it should have been.
There are more muslims simply because of the bulk infiltration from Bangladesh which is a muslim majority nation.
Yes, this is being done as per Assam accords signed by Govt of India in 1985, and the current Assamese Chief Justice Gogoi is the one who is implementing it by sidelining the current BJP state govt. Gogoi kickstarted this even when he was in the High Court.
Estimates of the number of Bangladeshis in India vary widely. A census carried out in 2001 by the Indian government estimated there were 3.1 million Bangladeshis residing in India, based on place of birth and place of last residence. A different 2009 estimate claimed that there were 15 million Bangladeshis who had taken residence in the country. [0]
It doesn't bode well for the future if/when mass immigration due to climate change happens.
The year 1971 was when a party from East Pakistan won the state elections; this was rejected by the Punjabi-dominated Army, which started killing Bangladeshis by the millions. A letter by the US Ambassador (in Dhaka, Kolkata?) was completely ignored by Nixon and his henchman, Kissinger. This led to a genocide, which took a religious turn (as it always does), and Hindus were killed and raped en masse. The exodus, which was merely a repeat of the one following partition, led Indira Gandhi (a brutal dictator in her own right), to help create an independent state of Bangladesh.
The refugees were never repatriated, and the open border meant easy passage for people. Governments from states neighbouring Bangladesh have encouraged Muslim voters to illegally emigrate to bolster their electoral majorities; this is not a contentious fact in India. Indeed, the communists even killed over 5000 Hindu refugees using state police in Marichjhapi, in order to secure their vote share in the decade after the war; there is, as usual, a total silence to the brutal state-sponsored genocides by the Left.
There is however a strong distaste for the trespassers, and this is indeed along religious lines. Bangladesh is also a breeding ground for the global Jihad, and this is precisely why Myanmar too reacts the way it has. In India, Muslim majority areas are often ... erm ... not exactly places where minorities are left in peace (Kashmir, Ramanathapuram, Bhatkal, Malda, tons of districts in Bengal, Bihar, UP). Having this many Bangladeshis, being supported by corrupt political elites, is not exactly a problem it needs right now. India in particular has one too many Kashmirs brewing, and unlike the Christians and Muslims who have historically either been "harvesting" lands by one means or the other, India's natives have no real homeland. Not even India, which constitutionally discriminates against Hindus.
Letting a wound fester, sadly, has its consequences. The instabilities caused by the jihadis has grave consequences to India's economy and culture, and it has every right to deport illegal immigrants.
Regarding exaggerations Marichjhapi death toll, the unofficial one, was around a thousand at max. Official one of course is ridiculous -- 2. If you are insinuating that Muslim population in Malda, West Bengal are up to no good, thats patently false because I have eyes on the ground there.
Hope you comment more on HN.
Indian Muslims have been having more children than any body can afford long before Modi came in power. Going by your logic Indian Muslims seems to be punishing India. I would like to point out that India Muslims have 7-8 children as part of their religious teachings.
> Growth rate of Muslims has been consistently higher than the growth rate of Hindus, even since the census data of independent India has been available. For example, during the 1991-2001 decade, Muslim growth rate was 29.52% (vs 19.92% for Hindus)[19] However, Muslims population growth rate declined to 24.6% during 2001-2011 decade, in keeping with the similar decline in most religious groups of India.
As the West has learned if you wish to control a population then you must not make them a poor underclass... Poor underclasses always produce more children than richer classes.
But yeah it's true India's Muslims have been growing faster than India's Hindus. My point was this is not going to fix that and it's simply an insult to human rights to be punished using the same methods being used to attack it. By growing the population even more.
In another words to fix the population issue you need to move everyone up the economic ladder so that they become self-indulgent individualists who stop caring about religion and their community and starting caring about themselves and enjoyment of their lives. At which point they will stop having children and the population will shrink. Without anyone suffering from anything except lonliness.