In the eastern Indian state of Assam, in the framework of the National Citizenship Registration, which is under preparation, there are about five million people threatened with deportation in case they are not able to provide documentation which proves that their ancestors lived there before 1971.
It is stated that for the first time in sixty years, the update process is aimed at identifying and deporting unregistered immigrants from Bangladesh. But it is likely to create a similar process of Rohingya for immigrants from Bangladesh living in the region for many years, and Muslims.
