O n 5 November, the National Security Act came into force in Goa for three months. The Act, usually reserved for terrorists and threats to national security, arms the state with powers of preventive detention to tackle what Chief Minister Pramod Sawant calls a crime wave driven by “migrants.”

This is neither the first time Sawant has blamed migrants for rising crime in India’s smallest state, nor will it be the last.

This casual scapegoating of migrants, in fact, goes to the heart of a central tension in Goa. But first, a look at some of the events leading up to the NSA being imposed in the state. Show Full Article

:The trigger and the tension

The government had applied for the NSA in late September, immediately after a brutal attack on social activist and politician Rama Kankonka

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