Assam Civil Society group condemns crackdown on Muslims

“Now they will subject weapons to the indigenous individuals towards the spiritual minorities. Have we seen any civil war-like state of affairs anyplace in Assam? Then why do you do that? Why promote this communal hatred and create pressure among the many frequent individuals?

“It’s heartening that the individuals in Assam have typically maintained peace, aside from a couple of minor incidents right here and there, and have remained calm whereas sustaining amity amongst themselves all over the place within the state.

“We attraction to all right-thinking individuals, together with the Opposition political events and civil society organisations, to sentence and oppose this nefarious design of the ruling mix.”

Referring to the crackdown on minorities in Assam in the previous couple of days, Guwahati-based lawyer Aman Wadud posted, “Indian residents are being arbitrarily picked up, detained for a number of hours merely primarily based on suspicion of being ‘unlawful migrants’. Many have been launched, however not earlier than being harassed and having their proper to stay with dignity violated. One other group of people who find themselves being picked up are those that have spent a number of years in detention after being denationalised — some for as much as 10 years. They have been launched after two Supreme Courtroom orders — one the place the SC stated these accomplished 3 years in detention needs to be launched, and second the place the SC introduced down three years to 2 years.”

But, Assam Police seems to be defying the courtroom’s instructions.