The violence took place due to anger towards the decision to hold controversial state election in 1983 . read more
On the 18th of February in 1983, in central Assam, officially 1,819 and unofficially over 3,000 Muslims were driven out of their homes and massacred on the fields of Nellie and 13 other villages by a mob carrying country guns and machetes. read more
The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period in the morning of 18 February 1983. Although the involvement of members of Indigenous Assamese people in carrying out the massacre is commonly evoked, the identities of the rioters are debated by scholars. read more