Khoirabari massacre

Khoirabari massacre
Location	Khoirabari, Darrang district, Assam, India
Date	7 February 1983 At night (UTC+5:30)
Target	Bengali Hindus
Attack type	Massacre
Weapons	Guns, spears, swords, scythes, bows and arrows[citation needed]
Deaths	100–500
Injured	100–200
Perpetrators	Indigenous Assamese mobs

The Khoirabari massacre was an ethnic massacre of an estimated 100^[1] to 500^[2][3] immigrant Bengalis in the Khoirabari area of Assam, India, on 7 February 1983.^[1][4] Activists of the Assam Agitation sought to block an assembly election that day and had cut communications to the Bengali enclaves, which were perceived to be pro-election. Indigenous Assamese groups, who had held resentments toward the immigrant Bengalis, took advantage of the resulting isolation and surrounded and attacked the Bengali villages at night.^{[citation needed]}

News surrounding the massacre was not reported for two weeks.^[5] Journalist Shekhar Gupta reported a top Assam police officer admitting that the Assam police were preoccupied with the exaggerated news of the massacre of the Assamese people in Gohpur, and that they failed to take proper action in Khoirabari on time.^[5]