Region crippled by general strike over legislation making it easier for some other refugees to stay in country
Protesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.
The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from refugees from three neighbouring countries – but not if they are Muslim.
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