Goreswar massacre

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Goreswar massacre
Location	Goreswar, Kamrup district (now Baksa district), Assam, India
Date	3 July 1960 (UTC+5:30)
Target	Bengali Hindus
Attack type	Massacre, ethnic cleansing, pogrom
Weapons	Guns, spears, swords, scythes, bows and arrows
Deaths	At least 9 men and 1 woman
Injured	More than 1,000 50,000 people fled to West Bengal
Perpetrators	Assamese mobs

The Goreswar massacre was the massacre of Bengali Hindus in Goreswar, in the Kamrup district (now Baksa district) of the Indian state of Assam.^[1] The massacre was part of a pre-planned pogrom, organized in a meeting of the local Teachers' Association.