{"id":12099,"date":"2019-12-13T02:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/they-will-lock-us-up-or-just-kill-us-muslims-fearful-in-west-bengal"},"modified":"2019-12-13T02:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:33:30","slug":"they-will-lock-us-up-or-just-kill-us-muslims-fearful-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12099","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They will lock us up or just kill us\u2019: Muslims fearful in West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP politicians have said \u2018no Hindu family will have to leave India\u2019 after national register of citizens<\/p>\n<p>It was 81 days ago that Kamal Hussain Mondal, a 32-year-old brick factory worker from a remote village in West Bengal, took his own life. He had been a carefree man and attentive father to his two young sons, and was known throughout Soladana village for his devotion to his wife Khayrun Nahar Bibi. The pair had been married for 13 years but she spoke of their \u201cpuppy love\u201d. He would feed her with his hands at mealtimes and on Sundays he would take her out on the back of his bicycle, telling others he loved simply riding through the fields together and chatting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe promised he would look after us for ever,\u201d says Bibi. \u201cBut after he heard about NRC, everything changed and he fell into a deep despair. He told me: all Muslims are going to be driven from India now. They will lock us up or just kill us. Just wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/they-will-lock-us-up-or-just-kill-us-muslims-fearful-in-west-bengal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP politicians have said \u2018no Hindu family will have to leave India\u2019 after national register of citizensIt was 81 days ago that Kamal Hussain Mondal, a 32-year-old brick factory worker from a remote village in West Bengal, took his own life. He had bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12100,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions\/12100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}