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Noakhali riots

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As India awaits the results of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, read how Chacha Nehru expressed ‘relief’ over the killing of 400 Hindu peasants...

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2024

"And so when the news came that they have been stopped at last in one place and that 400 of them had died, I felt that the balance had been very slightly righted," Nehru had written.

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‘I am greatly relieved that 400+ Hindu peasants gunned down, balance slightly righted’: How Nehru justified killing of Hindus protesting against Noakhali massacre

Paurush Gupta - 15 November, 2023

Jawaharlal Nehru had expressed relief after security forces killed 400 Hindu peasants protesting against Noakhali massacre in 1946, said it balances mob violence

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‘Naked, butchered bodies of Hindu women were hung at beef shops in Kolkata’: Direct Action Day survivor recalls the horror

OpIndia Staff - 16 August, 2022

Today on the 75th anniversary of horrific 'Direct Action Day', Rabindranath Dutta, a survivor recalled the brutality Islamists had inflicted on innocent Hindu women during those days.

Media

Scroll, The Swaddle columnist justifies attack on ISKCON temple and Hindu devotees in Bangladesh by Islamists

OpIndia Staff - 17 October, 2021

Scroll and The Swaddle columnist Genesia Alves not only justified violence unleashed upon Hindus in Bangladesh by an Islamist mob for celebrating the Hindu festival Vijayadashami/Dussehra but also gave 'context' to the same justification.

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After vandalising Durga Puja pandals, 400-500 strong Muslim mob in Bangladesh targets ISKCON temple, kill 2: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff - 16 October, 2021

A frenzied mob of radical Islamists attacked ISKCON temple in the Noakhali district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.

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The persecution continues in Noakhali: 150 Hindu families attacked over ‘Quran insult’ rumours as Bangladesh sees a bloodied Durga Puja

OpIndia Staff - 14 October, 2021

Videos have emerged where violent Muslim mobs are seen pelting stones at makeshift Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh. There are also reports of rampant loot and molestations.