Assam policeman's wireless message before Nellie massacre was ignored. How we came to know of its existence and then found it is the story we are telling now.
In the hideous days of February 1983 Assam election, and ‘Nellie’ in particular, I witnessed peculiar happenings while doing the tasks of the Election Commission in our Chetak helicopter.
I was there looking for trouble to report. And in that awful fortnight, when Indira Gandhi decided to force an election nobody wanted in Assam, you didn’t have to go looking for trouble.
Nellie massacre took place in 1983 in the backdrop of tension between Centre and Assam students’ outfit over deletion of ‘foreigners’ from electoral rolls.
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