The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) has urged international election observers of the European Union, the Commonwealth and Japan to intervene with Bangladesh against threat to indigenous Buddhist candidates by the Bangladesh government sponsored armed group in the ongoing 13th Parliamentary elections. Two independent Buddhist candidates Mr Pahel Chakma from Rangamati Parliamentary Constituency and […]
New Delhi: The “Rights and Risks Analysis Group” (RRAG) in a press statement today stated that by excluding 1.9 million persons from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), India made the largest number of people ‘stateless’ in human history, followed by the declaration of about 9,75,000 descendents of Indian origin Tamils or the Upcountry Tamils as […]
NDTV PUBLISHED ON: AUGUST 1, 2018 The controversial National Register for Citizens resulted in frenzied protests in Parliament from the Opposition. We look at how the issue of citizenship, key to the lives of the 40 lakh people in Assam, may, in fact, be political fodder not just for the government, but also the Opposition. […]