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NEFIS stages candle light vigils
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 14 2019:
The North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) organised candle light vigils and protest demonstrations across the country today.
Candle light vigils were held at Delhi University North Campus, Manipur University and Panjab University campuses and other places in the country, said a statement of the forum.
Various organisations and locals joined the protests and condemned violence 'unleashed by the State Governments of Assam and Tripura' .
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Denouncing the Citizenship Act, NEFIS asserted that the 'communal' agenda is starkly evident from the fact that the non-Muslim minorities from only three countries have been given space in the Act conveniently excluding the prosecuted minorities from Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Exhibiting its entirely 'communal' stance, the BJP led Government has refused to grant even asylum to the Rohingyas of Myanmar because it sees them as unwanted illegal immigrants.
Rohingyas have been the victims of State-sponsored 'genocide,' said NEFIS.
NEFIS asserted that the amended Citizenship Act is 'unconstitutional' and an attempt to 'divide people on religious ground.' It opined that there should have been wider consultation and referendum before the CAB was tabled in the Parliament.
NEFIS will scale up its protest against the amended Act as it threatens the people of North-East and their identity, said the forum.
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