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Ugly truth about Assam's detention camps -Sudipta Bhattacharjee

-The Telegraph

The plight of an ‘indigenous foreigner' comes as a horrifying reminder of what lies in store

As the country heaved over protests surrounding universities and an amended citizenship law this month, a tragic contour unfolded in Assam with the death of a daily wager belonging to an indigenous community. Naresh Koch, who was apprehended and taken to the Goalpara detention centre in March 2018, was declared a “foreigner” in June 2017 by a foreigner’s tribunal in an ex parte order. He died on January 3, bringing the death toll of declared foreigners at a detention centre in three years to 29.Surely the irony of an oxymoron like ‘indigenous foreigner’ cannot be lost on any sane citizen.

The Union home ministry had informed Parliament on November 27 last year that there were close to 1,000 “foreigners” in the six detention centres in Assam, the only state in the country where the National Register of Citizens has been completed amid misgivings. The junior home minister, Nityanand Rai, said that from 2016 to October 13, 2019,

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