What the records say
- When
- 7 Feb 1983
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100
- Coordinates
- 26.71° N, 92.21° E
- Description
- mass killings against Bengali Hindus in India in 1983
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Khoirabari massacre
Mass killings in India in 1983
The Khoirabari massacre was an ethnic massacre of an estimated more than 500 immigrant Bengalis in the Khoirabari area of Assam, India, on 7 February 1983. 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.
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