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NRC in Assam targeting religious minorities: US committee

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A federal US commission on international religious freedom alleged that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is a tool to “target religious minorities and to render Muslims stateless”. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Friday said NRC is a “targeted mechanism to disenfranchise Assam’s Bengali Muslim community, implicitly establishing a religious requirement for citizenship."