India’s Forgotten Massacre in Nellie

India’s Forgotten Massacre in Nellie | Harsh Mander

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On February 18, 1983, in the genocidal massacre organised in Nellie just 40 kilometres from Guwahati, at least 2,191 Muslim settlers of Bengali origin were slaughtered, leaving 370 children orphaned and their homes in 16 villages destroyed. It is instructive that it took an unconscionable 42 years for the report of the judicial commission appointed to investigate this massacre to finally be tabled in the Assam state assembly. This protracted delay is not random: it is integral to a conscious state project to erase memories and deny accountability for the pitiless crimes of the mass slaughter of 1983. When news reached me of the belated tabling of the judicial commission report in the state assembly of one of free India’s most brutal but forgotten massacres, it brought back memories of my travel to Nellie on the 25th anniversary of the massacre in 2008. I searched for the notes I had taken of what the survivors had told me then. I had also recorded these in an essay that I wrote for The Hindu shortly after. Read full report here: https://thewire.in/communalism/nellies-survivors-have-waited-42-years-but-justice-still-fails-them In 2008, to commemorate 25 years of the tragic massacre, the survivors of Nellie had invited me to sit with them in their distant, impoverished corner of the country, as they recalled the agony of the events that had unfolded a quarter-century earlier. Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWtJey46brNr7qHQpN6KLQ/join

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