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People may seem that the so-called secular
and the democratic nation called India may be doing enough to protect the rights of
it's minorities but history has its own course. It always makes netizens to
fall for criticizing the whole Indian secularism in Indian post-independence
journey you may find many events that makes you to rethink about the
constitutional provisions and it's actual practice.
After the partition in 1947, India faced one
of the largest refugee crisis of the world that led to many riots and violence
all over the country in religious lines
Nellie massacre is one of worst human crisis
in Indian history that led to the killing of around 2,191 Muslims (immigrants from
East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) in a period of 6 hours on the day of 18th
February 1983. From unofficial sources, it is found that around 10,000 people
were killed.
It is regarded as one of the worst pogroms of
the world. It took place in different regions in Nagaon district of Assam and is regarded as a black chapter in
our secular legacy.
There was an ever-growing demand to overthrow
Bangladeshi migrants from the state of Assam who came after the partition.
In the state elections of Assam of 1983
around 4 million Bangladeshi Muslims were given voting rights by the then
Indira Gandhi government.
It created terrible chaos in the state and
further led this kind of killings of poor Muslim farmers.
Some rural peasants were the culprits but no
one got punished.
Tiwari commission was formed to investigate
the issue but it's report was never made public. The subsequent governments
followed the same and the whole issue was properly subjugated. Police filed around 688 cases but no one got
punished. In 1985 Assam accord was signed by Rajiv Gandhi
with the Assam government that left every perpetrator free.
Victims never got their due and justice was
never delivered to them. The government and its judiciary failed its people.
But these scars still haunt people's minds and raise the question that does
our minorities entitled to lead a secured life?
Written By - Bodhiswatta Mukherjee
Edited By - N.Nargis Fathima
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