What the records say
- When
- 23 Jul 1999
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 17
- Coordinates
- 8.60° N, 77.26° E
- Description
- 1999 massacre of tea plantation workers in Tirunelveli, India
Manjolai labourers massacre
1999 massacre of tea plantation workers in Tirunelveli, India
The Manjolai labourers massacre or the Thamirabarani massacre of 23 July 1999 was the death of 17 Dalit labourers, including two women and a two-year-old child, when they got into the river to escape a Tamil Nadu Police lathi-charge.
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