Millions in India Could End Up in Modi's New Detention Camps
In a river valley near the Himalayas, Purobi Hajong walks her two children to school each day past the vast, muddy construction site of India’s first standalone detention center for people who don’t meet new citizenship rules. She’s afraid she’ll soon be held inside.
“I always live in fear that someone will come to my home to pull me out from here and put me in there,” Hajong said, pointing to the nearly completed structure in her village in the northeastern state of Assam. “I pray to god not to give me that fate. I can’t survive without my family.”
Surrounded by a high boundary wall with watchtowers, the center will be able to hold 3,000 people found to be “foreigners” illegally staying in Assam by the state government, which is controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. It’s pushing other states to follow suit, and has broken ground on five similar facilities stretching from Karnataka in the south to Punjab in the north.
These detention centers are the front lines of a widening battle across India that could see citizenship revoked for millions of people, stoking long-simmering religious tensions and hurting the country’s image among foreign investors. Recent nationwide protests against a related religion-based citizenship law show the high stakes for Modi, who is facing criticism for focusing on elevating the role of Hinduism at the expense of an economy growing at the slowest pace since 2009.
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No wonder him and Trump get along so well.
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