Marichjhapi massacre

Marichjhapi incident
Marichjhapi incident
Date	24 January 1979 – 18 May 1979
Location	Marichjhanpi; 22.1070°N 88.9510°E
Parties
Communist Party of India (Marxist); Government of West Bengal	Hindu Refugees from East Pakistan who fled from Dandakaranya (mostly Namasudras)
Lead figures
	Jyoti Basu ; Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Casualties and losses
	Sources put it between 50-10000 2(official)

Marichjhapi massacre (also known as Marichjhapi incident) refers to the eviction of Bengali Hindu Dalit refugees who settled on legally protected reserve forest land on Marichjhapi island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, in 1979, and the subsequent massacres and deaths by disease of Hindu refugees.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.