What the records say
- When
- 24 Jan 1979 – 18 May 1979
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 1,000
- Coordinates
- 22.11° N, 88.95° E
- Description
- forcible eviction in 1979 of Bangladeshi refugees on Marichjhapi island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of around thousands by police gun…
Marichjhapi massacre
1979 eviction of Bangladeshi refugees
Marichjhapi massacre or Marichjhapi incident refers to the 1979 eviction of post-partition Bengali refugees who had moved out of the Dandakaranya camps in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and settled in protected forest lands on Marichjhapi island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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