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NRC mention in UN Human Rights boss speech

UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet asks India to ensure none excluded from Assam's NRC exercise is ‘rendered stateless’

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NEW DELHI , September 10, 2019 9:13 am
NRC mention in UN Human Rights boss speech

UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet speaking at the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9, 2019. Image courtesy: Youtube

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UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet has brought up the NRC issue in her opening statement at the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Late on Monday, she asked India to ensure that none of those excluded from Assam’s NRC exercise is ‘rendered stateless’.

Also read: Assam: No one to be left stateless, asserts UN refugee chief

NRC mention in UN Human Rights boss speech 1She did not elaborate but analysts say Bachelet has made it clear that the UN expects India to continue provide them with voting rights, protection from harassment by law-enforcing agencies and refrain from any attempt to push them out of India.

This assumes significance in view of union home minister Amit Shah‘s repeated assertions that ‘not one ghuspet (illegal infiltrator) will be allowed to stay on’.

Sources in Geneva say that the UN Human Rights Council is planning to send a special delegation to India to look into the situation in both Kashmir and Assam

Indian reactions to such an eventuality is not yet clear.

Bachelet has also asked India to ease curbs on communication and free movement in Kashmir and expressed ‘deep concern’ at the situation in the State following the reorganization a month ago.

She has asked both India and Pakistan to protect the rights of the Kashmiris.

Since India is preparing to defend its actions in Kashmir at the UN General Assembly next month in view of an inevitable diplomatic offensive by Pakistan, New Delhi will have to be particularly careful to avoid any linking of the NRC issue with Kashmir.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has made such an attempt already to project ‘huge persecution of Muslims in India’, little knowing that more Hindus than Muslims stand excluded from the NRC.

But admitting and highlighting that to blunt Khan’s accusations is not an option because of its domestic ramifications for the Modi government.

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