1 min readGuwahatiMay 2, 2016 06:09 AM IST
First published on: May 2, 2016 at 06:09 AM IST
The Nellie massacre of 1983 that left over 3,000 people dead was the result of a land dispute between indigenous tribals and immigrant Muslims, according to a memoir written by a former bureaucrat who had worked with six CMs of Assam.
“Though this (Nellie) incident was immediately linked with the anti-election agitation (which was part of the anti-migrants agitation led by AASU), it was in fact the result of a land dispute between local tribal people and immigrant Muslims,” Jatin Hazarika, who served as home secretary of Assam in the 1980s, writes in Shadow Behind the Throne: My Tryst with the Assam Administration.
Referring to Tiwary panel findings into the massacre, he says that land grabbing and encroachments on reserves and wastelands were also responsible for social tensions.
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