Our neighbour across the water believe in democracy. An interesting rumour going around is that when the authorities did a renewal of identity cards, people of other religious beliefs suddenly found that they had been converted during the process. Is this democracy in action -- everyone must practise the national religion? Now we can say that what we are hearing is being spread by anti-government groups. However certain news in the papers seem to bear out what is being said on the ground. News like bibles being confiscated by customs, dead bodies seized for burial according to burial rites of what the authorities insist the deceased had converted to before death despite contrary evidence and families' protests.
Its pro indigenous people policy has driven the minorities to look elsewhere for a new home. It's reducing the population of the minorities.
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