Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Assam

Nellie Massacre; “Though impossible to describe, I will try”

Hemendra Narayan, a journalist from The Indian Express wrote an eyewitness account "Horrible doesn't describe it. How many deaths difficult to say" on 19 February 1983. Read the full text

Assam: 2,500 Bengali Muslim families go homeless as govt launches demolition drive, two mosques among bulldozed

Authorities in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Tuesday launched a drive to evict over 2,500 families. Most of the persons living in the area are Bengali-speaking Muslims and have been primarily engaged in cultivation.

Assam: Is this a case of young women waiting to be saved or criminalising a community?

Often, the Bengali Muslim men are criminalised, and attempts at saving Bengali muslim women from their men are made. The next important question is whether Bengali muslim women really need saving by the Sarma government.

Muslim man lynched by cow vigilantes in Assam, mob protests for release of accused

Over a hundred of Muslims were killed in more than two hundred cases of cow-related violence reported across India between 2012 and 2022.

“Indiscriminate arrests not solution to child marriage”, Assam govt hunts Muslim families, alleges Muslim girls group

Indiscriminate arrests are not a solution to child marriage, said Girls Islamic Organisation while calling the state-wide crackdown in Assam “extremely shameful and condemnable.”

Assam’s crackdown on child marriage: Woman dies by suicide fearing parent’s arrest

Amid the new crackdown on child marriages by the Assam police, a mother of two kids died by suicide in the South Salmara-Mankachar district,...