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Goreswar massacre | |
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Location | Goreswar, Kamrup district (now Baksa district), Assam, India |
Date | 3 July 1960 (UTC+5:30) |
Target | Bengali Hindus |
Attack type | Massacre, ethnic cleansing, pogrom |
Weapons | Guns, spears, swords, scythes, bows and arrows |
Deaths | At least 9 men and 1 woman |
Injured | More than 1,000 50,000 people fled to West Bengal |
Perpetrators | Assamese mobs |
The Goreswar massacre was the massacre of Bengali Hindus in Goreswar, in the Kamrup district (now Baksa district) of the Indian state of Assam.[1] The massacre was part of a pre-planned pogrom, organized in a meeting of the local Teachers' Association.
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