Joseph Allchin

Assam & the Hindu Nationalist Citizenship Law

Home Minister Amit Shah has promised to take the citizenship register process piloted in Assam nationwide—in order to rid the nation of its largely imaginary “infiltrators” before the next general election, scheduled for 2024.

Inventing Rohingya Extremists

Myanmar’s military rulers have long sought to portray the Sunni Muslim Rohingyas as a fifth column of dangerous Islamist extremists with links to al-Qaeda.

The Standoff in Bangladesh

It seems likely that ISIS has not set up a fully-fledged operation of its own in Bangladesh. Rather, local groups, some of whom have previous deep ties to Bangladeshi politics, have been inspired by ISIS and declared allegiance to it.