Nellie massacre
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The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period on the morning of 18 February 1983.[6][7] The massacre claimed the lives of 1,600–2,000 people[8] from 14 villages—Alisingha, Khulapathar, Basundhari, Bugduba Beel, Bugduba Habi, Borjola, Butuni, Dongabori, Indurmari, Mati Parbat, Muladhari, Mati Parbat no. 8, Silbheta, Borburi and Nellie—of Nagaon district.[9][10] The victims were Muslim of Bengali origin.[11][7][12] Three media personnel—Hemendra Narayan of The Indian Express, Bedabrata Lahkar of The Assam Tribune and Sharma of ABC—were witnesses to the massacre.[13]
Nellie Massacre | |
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Location | Assam, India |
Coordinates | 26.111483°N 92.317253°E / 26.111483; 92.317253 |
Date | 18 February 1983 |
Target | Immigrant Bengal-origin Muslims[1][2] |
Attack type | Deportation, mass murder |
Deaths | 2,191+ , 10,000+ (unofficial) |
Perpetrator | A mob of a few hundred Tiwas[3] |
Motive | Xenophobia, Anti-immigration, Anti-Bengali Sentiments[4]/Anti-Bangladeshi Sentiments[5] |
The violence that took place in Nellie by natives—mostly rural peasants—was seen as a fallout of the decision to hold the controversial state elections in 1983[14] in the midst of the Assam Agitation, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's decision to give four million Bengali Muslims the right to vote.[9][15] It has been described as one of the worst pogroms since World War II and one of the deadliest pogroms against a minority community in post partition India.[16][17]