| Khoirabari massacre | |
|---|---|
  | |
| Location | Khoirabari, Darrang district, Assam, India |
| Date | 7 February 1983 At night (UTC+5:30) |
| Target | Bengali Hindus |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Weapons | Guns, spears, swords, scythes, bows and arrows[citation needed] |
| Deaths | 100–500 |
| Injured | 100–200 |
| Perpetrators | Indigenous Assamese mobs |
The Khoirabari massacre was an ethnic massacre of an estimated 100[1] to 500[2][3] immigrant Bengalis in the Khoirabari area of Assam, India, on 7 February 1983.[1][4] Activists of the Assam Agitation sought to block an assembly election that day and had cut communications to the Bengali enclaves, which were perceived to be pro-election. Indigenous Assamese groups, who held resentments towards the immigrant Bengalis, took advantage of the resulting isolation and surrounded and attacked the Bengali villages at night.[citation needed]
News surrounding the massacre was not reported for two weeks.[5] Journalist Shekhar Gupta reported a top Assam police officer admitting that the Assam police were preoccupied with the exaggerated news of the massacre of the Assamese people in Gohpur and that they failed to take proper action in Khoirabari on time.[5]
- ^ a b Rammohan, E. N. (2005). Insurgent Frontiers: Essays from the Troubled Northeast. India Research Press. ISBN 978-81-87943-80-8.
- ^ Gupta, Shekhar (1984). Assam: A Valley Divided. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7069-2537-1. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ Barpujari, H. K. (1998). North-East India: Problems, Policies, and Prospects: Since Independence. Spectrum Publication. p. 63. ISBN 978-81-85319-81-0. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ Sarma, Diganta. ১৯৮৩-ৰ অসমত নিপীড়িত বাঙালি (in Assamese). Jorhat: Ekalabya Prakashan.
- ^ a b Gupta, Shekhar (1984). Assam: A Valley Divided. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-7069-2537-1. Retrieved 4 November 2018.