India, Oct. 25 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that after 42 years of the Nellie Massacre in Assam, the State Government has decided to table the Justice Tribhuvan Prasad Tiwari Commission Report in the Assembly on November 25. On February 18, 1983, more than 3,000 Bengali-speaking Muslims were killed in the massacre during the height of the Assam agitation, also known as the anti-foreigners' movement at the Nellie region of Nagaon district.
Pointing out that successive Governments were hesitant in tabling the report as the report did not have the signature of Justice Tiwari, the Chief Minister said that many Governments failed to conclude if the report was "genuine or fake" as it was not signed by Mr Tiwari. "We have...