The report does not indicate that Nellie massacre, which took place against backdrop of anti-immigrant agitation led by AASU and AAGP, was the result of any larger conspiracy.
On 18 February, 1983, 3,000 people, mostly migrant Muslim men, women and children, were slaughtered within 6 hours. Despite 668 FIRs, no one was ever convicted.
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.
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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