| Title |
INDIAN DEMOCRACY -
BIRCHANDRA MANU MASSACRE |
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Date-wise Events |
October 12, 1988 |
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Description |
- On this day, activists of the Indian National Congress
attacked a Communist Party of India (Marxist) office in
Birchandra Manu village, Belonia sub-division in southern
Tripura, India.
- The attack took place whilst the CPI(M) cadres
were hoisting a red flag to mark the re-opening of their local
party office (which had been closed following previous attacks
from Congress workers).
- Present at the hoisting ceremony were
two prominent CPI(M) leaders, the Tripura Tribal Areas
Autonomous District Council member Sridam Pal and the Tripura
Legislative Assembly member Brajamohan Jamatia.
- Eleven CPI(M)
cadres were killed.
- A martyrs' column was
erected in Birchandra Manu in remembrance of the people killed
in the event.
- In March 2011 the Congress leader Subal Bhowmik
expressed an unconditional apology for various violent incidents
during the rule of his party in the state during 1988 and 1993,
including the Birchandra Manu killings.
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