Laxmanpur Bathe massacre

When

1 Dec 1997

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

61

Coordinates

25.24° N, 84.67° E

Description

massacre of Dalit villagers by upper-caste militia in southwestern Bihar in 1997

Placed at the point Wikidata gives for Arwal district.

Caste based massacre in Bihar

The Laxmanpur Bathe massacre was a massacre conducted in the Laxmanpur Bathe village in Arwal district of Bihar on 1 December 1997, where 58 scheduled caste people were killed by members of the Ranvir Sena in retaliation for the Bara massacre in which 37 upper castes were killed. Laxmanpur Bathe is a village in Arwal district in Bihar, on the Son river nearly 90–km from Patna.

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