Today, the crisis of global migration is unsettling the logic of territorial sovereignty and citizenship that underpins the modern nation-state.
On 12 December 2019, while presenting the ground reports on Kashmir and the National Register of Citizens in Washington DC, Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, warned that “preparation for a genocide is definitely underway in India,” as the persecution of Muslims in Assam and in Kashmir clearly hints of an upcoming stage of “extermination.” Following this, the United Nations Human Rights office also raised concerns over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 for its “discriminatory” nature in targeting Muslims.
If we go by Stanton’s famous ten stages of genocide paradigm, we may be near the ninth stage, extermination, having surpassed earlier stages such as classifying an ‘Other’, characterising that Other as ‘foreigner,’ followed by discrimination, dehumanisation in terms terrorists or animals, political organisation against them, followed by polarisation, preparation and persecution.
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