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Hindu Massacres in ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—˜๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ India.

3 Key Points:

1. Politicians & Media Maintained ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ
2. Happened ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—น๐˜† over Many Decades Killing 1000s
3. Orchestrated Mostly by Hindus (Perils of Hateful Linguistic Movements)

Starting Thread With Data
Silpathar, Assam
Feb, 1983

๐—ข๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น Data: 50 Hindus, ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น: 1000
Attackers snatched Babies from Mothers' arms & threw them on fire.

News of Massacre reported Much Later. Attackers had destroyed Bridges leading to remote Villages

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silapathaโ€ฆ
3. Khoirabari, Assam
Feb-1983

๐—ข๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น: 100+ Hindus Killed; ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€: 500

Mob Attacked a School Where Victims Had Taken Shelter Fearing for Life & Massacred. In 36 years, State Gave ๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป.

Imagine the Hatred

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoirabarโ€ฆ
4. Goreswar, Assam
July, 1960

Organized by ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€' ๐—”๐˜€๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป & Students

15,000 Strong Mob Armed with Guns Attacked 25 Villages, Killed 10, Continued Violence for 3 Months. Made 50,000 ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ of State.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goreswar_โ€ฆ
๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป in Hindu Massacres in this Thread

1. Huge ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ Participation (Not Separatists)
2. Participation of ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ Folks (Teachers, Students, Poets)
3. Congress Govts were Allowing these Massacres, People wanted More. ๐—”๐—”๐—ฆ๐—จ got Wide Acceptability
5. ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฎ๐—ถ, ๐—”๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ
๐—๐˜‚๐—น๐˜† 1993

100+ Hindus Massacred by a Mob. Incident started with a tiff between a Photo shop owner and a Customer.

Massacred Hindus were the Ones who came after Losing Everything in Partition

๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojai_masโ€ฆ
Incentive for Repeated Hindu Massacres

Rajiv Gandhi Signed Assam Accord in 1985. Agreed to the Popular Demand that Almost no Criminals should be Prosecuted

Imagine Such a Demand & PM agreed. Led to More Hindu Targeting in the Region
Pattern

1. Many Hindu Massacres (Except 1 Major Incident-Nellie when Muslims were Targeted)

2. Hindus were perceived as Competitors in Job

3. Mindset reflects in Huge Hindu Exclusions in NRC today

Ref: Weiner, Myron -Migration and Ethnic
Conflict in India, Princeton, Page-124
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