Record of Human Rights Violations in Assam

There have been numerous incidents of human rights violations in Assam and Northeast India during the past twenty or more years. India, although lauded as the largest democracy in the world, has a consistently poor record in terms of human rights violations. Places where people have been tortured, maimed and killed by the Indian army, paramilitary forces, and the police on numerous occasions are primarily in Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, and the Northeast India. Here are some reports which are available on the Internet.

• Twenty more cases of human rights violation in Assam in 1997
• Bhupen Choudhury of Khairabari, Mangaldoi dies in Army custody, Sep '97
• Ajit Bhuyan, A prisoner of conscience: The arrest of a well-known publisher and writer, 1997
• An introduction to Where Peacekeepers Have Declared War, April 1997
• Indian Army's atrocities in Kakapothaar, Assam, India, an article from the Asamiya Pratidin, August 9, 1997
• Indian Army terrorizes people in Bordoloni, Assam, India, an article from the Asamiya Pratidin, August 9, 1997
• Hotel cook Pradip Kakoti killed by the military in Kaki, Assam, India, an article from the Dainik Agradoot, August 9, 1997
• Rape of Dulumaya Tamang by Assam Police, Bordoloni, Assam, August 1997
• Twelve year old Mamoni Koch is raped by Indian Army in Komarchuburi, Sonitpur, Assam, July '97
• Sixteen year old Nilima Boro and fourteen year old Fouduru Boro are raped by Indian Army in Khoirabari, Sonitpur, Assam, July '97
• Indian soldiers beat everyone in sight, an article from the Dainik Agradoot, June 29, 1997
• An article by Kuldip Nayar, dated Thursday, May 22, 1997, from The Indian Express, Bombay, India
• An article by Samudra Gupta Kashyap, dated Thursday, May 11, 1997, from The Hindu, Madras, India
• A Newsletter from MASS (Manab Adhikar S'angram S'amiti of Assam, 1995
• A short write-up titled Massacres in Assam
• An account of police killings in Kokrajhar, Assam, 1992
• A first hand account of human rights violations in Assam, 1981-86
• Human Rights Situation in Nagaland
• Human Rights Situation among Northeast India's Tribals

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