But the first charge toward genocide took place in 1982. That year, Myanmar's legislature enacted the Burmese Citizenship Law, which mandated that residents provide conclusive evidence that their parents resided in the country before it gained independence in 1948.104 The law, many critics argued immediately after its passage, was intended to strip the Rohingya people of their citizenship status. Just like the Citizenship Amendment Act in India, the law marked some people—Muslims in India and Rohingya in Myanmar—as segments of the population whose citizenship can be stripped by the state.

XREF: Connects to the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act, mentioned in the passage, and to broader patterns of citizenship-stripping as a precursor to ethnic violence.

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