Hundreds of homes have been bulldozed in the Dhubri district of Assam state in northeastern India as part of a government campaign to evict families it says do not legally live there.
Local media says most of the 4,000 people displaced were Bengali-speaking Muslims. https://t.co/DN4rvYAlkz
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 3, 2026
Why are so many ‘Bengali speaking Muslim’ in Assam? When Al Jazeera says ‘Bengali speaking Muslim’, it means illegal Bangladeshis.
AJ also conveniently forgets to mention that these were illegally constructed on government forest-reserve land. The authorities have identified the occupants as undocumented Bangladeshi migrants.
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