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"It’s not just an American story. National governments all over the
world are drawing hard lines. By the end of this month, the Indian
government may disenfranchise as many as 4 million people in the state
of Assam—most of them Muslim—unless they can prove their ancestors lived
in India prior to 1971, the year of Bangladesh’s independence. If they
can’t, they could be subject to detention or expelled to Bangladesh, a
country with little interest in taking in a large new population of
stateless people. Assam is a border region—like the U.S.-Mexican border,
like the Haitian-Dominican border—with a long history of cross-border
migration and settlement. When hard-line nationalists take power, such
ambiguity in borderlines is no longer tolerated."
Via Paul Ferguson.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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