for everybody who isn’t indian - this is what is happening in india
there is so much misinformation going around, so i just want to clarify some things because nobody is getting the right information and its pissing me off
this isn’t an opinion piece, this is a piece on the facts of what is happening in india - all sources are linked
this is a series of events - and this is what is happening right the fuck now
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1. During the drafting of the Constitution of India, the Constitution Drafting Committee decided that India as a state would not have a religious identity, and hat under Article 14 of the Constitution - all religious identities would be equal under the eyes of the law
2. In the 1970s, close to 10 million people left Pakistan and moved to India during a Civil War that eventually lead to the creation of Bangladesh
3. Of these 10 million, a reported 1.5 million chose to stay after the creation of Bangladesh as an independent state
3. Earlier this year - the Assamese government took steps to get rid of these refugees
4. This resulted in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was created in order to identify “illegal migrants”. Its important to note that the NRC always existed, it was just being updated for the first time ever
5. In order to find yourself on the NRC - among other things, citizens of the state of Assam needed to prove ancestral heritage to India. That is, they needed to prove that they lived in India before the mass migration
6. The NRC was implemented, and close to 2 million people found themselves no longer considered to be citizens of India
7. The central government recently passed the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 - intended to provide a pass to citizenship for 6 religious minorities: Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Buddhists, Christians and Jains, from 3 specific countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan
8. The central gov plans to conduct the NRC nationwide - that is, all citizens of India will soon be asked to prove their citizenship under the guidelines of the NRC
9. In tandem, the central gov aims to make obtaining citizenship easier for the religious minorities listed above
10. In protest to this Act, because it specifically defines only certain religious minorities - there have been protests around the country
11. One of these protests in particular, a march led by students of Jamia in Delhi turned violent
12. The police got involved because, and I cannot stress this enough - local residents got involved and started setting fire to buses and private vehicles
13. The police retaliated by storming the university and attacking students who were not involved in the protests
14. Again, the STUDENTS did not get involved in the violence of the protests, but the protests themselves DID TURN VIOLENT
15. Similar extreme action has been seen by the police, even where protestors have legal permits to be protesting
16. The country is still at a stand-still between protestors who oppose the bill, and MPS who support the bill
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this is the current state of affairs in India
again, this is not an opinion piece - this is just a post listing out the facts of the situation as they have been occurring
tagging a couple of people who that this goes around: @webheadstan, @spiderrpcrker, @rocknrollonthat45, @littlemissstark , @icarustarks , @lgbtonystarks, @rxmanoff , @starkrogerrs , @talesofsuspenses, @deathsweetqueen (if you didn’t want to be tagged im sorry)
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edit: this post has now been updated to include a link to an extensive post on what the National Register of Citizens is
