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Made stateless: a looming crisis bigger than the Rohingya?

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"History should teach us that Nazi Germany did not begin with concentration camps. It began with everyday acts of discrimination." A humanitarian crisis - one far bigger than the Rohingya crisis - might be beckoning in India, after more than 1.9 million people in Assam state were left out of the National Register of Citizens.

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