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Not ‘Indian’ enough: Lynch mobs in India find a new target
India’s worsening ties with its neighbours have intensified attacks on its own citizens who are accused of being foreigners.
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Unlike the far-right attacks over the past decade that targeted minority communities in India for their race, caste or faith, mob violence today is defined by a new, warped xenophobia.
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Since December, at least five Indians have been lynched by mobs within India which accused them of being outsiders – not Indian, or not Indian enough.
Two migrant workers – a 19-year-old Muslim labourer from West Bengal working in Odisha state, and a Hindu migrant from central India in the south Indian state of Kerala – were tortured and killed by mobs falsely accusing them of being Bangladeshi immigrants.
