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Topic: Nellie massacre

2,000+ Muslims killed in Nellie. But Assam panel report buried for 42 yrs says it wasn’t communal

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.

Of ignored alerts, ‘cover-up’—revisiting 1983 Nellie mayhem as Assam govt looks to table long-buried report

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.

Finding the smoking gun that proved intel before Nellie massacre was ignored, covered up

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.

The troubled days of Assam 1983: a helicopter pilot recollects

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.

Bloodstained road to Nellie: Trail of destruction I saw after the 1983 massacre in Assam

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.

Blood, bodies and scars: What I saw after the 1983 Nellie massacre in Assam

On the anniversary of the Nellie massacre in Assam, which claimed thousands of lives in a few hours, I recall the horrid sights.

Nellie massacre and ‘citizenship’: When 1,800 Muslims were killed in Assam in just 6 hours

Nellie massacre took place in 1983 in the backdrop of tension between Centre and Assam students’ outfit over deletion of ‘foreigners’ from electoral rolls.

Amit Shah & Modi are playing with a fire that doesn’t distinguish between Muslim & Hindu

Assam will be a key issue for BJP in the upcoming 2019. elections But it could end up as a toxic cocktail that targets Hindus as well.

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