The government has resumed a controversial citizenship verification process in Rakhine State, an immigration official has revealed, amid pressure from Rakhine politicians to implement the 1982 Citizenship Act in the restive state.
The new government resumed the citizenship scrutiny process on May 1, U Myint Kyaing, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population told Frontier.
“It is one of the ministry’s projects for its first 100 days,” he said.
The process, which examines the credentials of Rakhine’s mostly stateless Muslim population, was launched as a pilot project by the previous government in June 2014 but suspended shortly afterward due to protests from the ethnic Rakhine community. (Courtesy of Frontier Myanmar)
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