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UN refugee chief calls on India not to make millions stateless in Assam citizenship drive
Retired Indian Army officer Mohammad Sanaullah, 53, who was declared an illegal immigrant and detained, leaves his residence in Gauhati, India
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned India today not to leave millions stateless in a citizenship registration drive.
A registration process conducted in Assam registered 31.1 million people as citizens, leaving out almost two million lifelong residents of the state.
The state is carrying out a citizenship check agreed to following a massacre of alleged immigrants in the 1980s, but never implemented until now.
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