-TheFederal.com The residents, who have lost their official documents in the flood water, now have no means to prove their Indian identity through the NRC Floods can wreck homes and lives, but if you are in this part of the country, it could even affect your citizenship. “I can’t prove my citizenship now. I have lost everything in the recent floods. My house in Ashram Road is still under water. I have lost...
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‘Flood Jihad’: How Media Outlets Communalised Silchar Floods -Archit Mehta
-TheWire.in More than a month after this incident, Assam’s chief minister called the flooding in Silchar a “man-made” disaster. Several media outlets then added an anti-Muslim spin. While reporting on the Assam floods in June, the Indian Express stated that Silchar – southern Assam’s biggest town and the gateway to the three districts on the bank of the Barak river – had submerged in water unlike “ever before in its history.” By...
More »How communal rumours hid the truth about the deluge in Assam’s Silchar -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in Days after the town was submerged, social media accounts started posting about ‘flood jihad’. Last month’s deluge in Silchar, in Assam’s Cachar district, was followed by a dangerous rumour. This was no natural flood, the rumour claimed – it was deliberately caused. Several social media accounts suggested it was “flood jihad”, in a not-so-veiled reference to the Muslim community. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma himself repeatedly suggested the flood was no...
More »‘A breach was made, no communal angle’ — what Assam probe into Cachar floods has revealed so far -Angana Chakrabarti
-ThePrint.in On 19 June, Silchar town — the district headquarters of Cachar district — was inundated as water from the Barak river entered the town. Guwahati: Police in Assam have ruled out a communal angle in the Barak embankment breach, which led to floods in the Cachar district, and urged people and the media to refrain from spreading rumours. “There is no communal angle in this event. My appeal to various social media...
More »Assam: Three more held for damaging Silchar dyke -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph The number of persons arrested in the case has gone up to four Guwahati: Three more persons have been arrested on charges of damaging a dyke that led to the flooding of Silchar in Assam on June 19 with water from the overflowing Barak river that runs along the town. The number of persons arrested in the case has gone up to four after the arrest of Mitu Hussain Laskar, Nazir...
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