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-'''Kakopathar killings''' or the '''Kakopathar massacre'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/assa-f20.shtml |title=Assam: Police kill at least 10 during protest against Indian Army murder - World Socialist Web Site |publisher=Wsws.org |date=2006-02-20 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pd.cpim.org/2006/0226/02262006_assam%20rally.htm |title=Cpi(M)'S Massive Rally In Assam |publisher=Pd.cpim.org |date=2006-02-26 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref> took place in [[Assam]] during 2006 when the Indian army opened fire at peaceful protesters at [[Kakopathar]] in [[Assam]], killing at least 10 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/Asamiya-Pratidin-1997-08-09.html |title=Atrocities by Indian soldiers in Kakapothaar, Tinsukia, Assam, India |publisher=Cs.uccs.edu |date=1997-08-09 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref>
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-They were protesting against the custodial-death of a villager who was arrested by the army. [[Kakopathar]] and many areas of rural [[Upper Assam]] and [[Lower Assam]] is supposedly an [[ULFA]] stronghold and the common people have faced army atrocities during counter-insurgency operations since the [[Assamese Separatist Movement]] started in 1979. [[Arabinda Rajkhowa]], the chairman of [[United Liberation Front of Asom]] compared it with the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]].<ref name="telegraphindia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060220/asp/opinion/story_5850159.asp |title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion |publisher=Telegraphindia.com |date=2006-02-20 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref>
+'''Kakopathar killings''' or the '''Kakopathar massacre'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/assa-f20.shtml |title=Assam: Police kill at least 10 during protest against Indian Army murder - World Socialist Web Site |publisher=Wsws.org |date=2006-02-20 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pd.cpim.org/2006/0226/02262006_assam%20rally.htm |title=Cpi(M)'S Massive Rally In Assam |publisher=Pd.cpim.org |date=2006-02-26 |access-date=2013-02-12 |archive-date=15 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615152057/http://pd.cpim.org/2006/0226/02262006_assam%20rally.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> took place in [[Assam]] during 2006 when the [[Indian Army]] opened fire at peaceful protesters at [[Kakopathar]] in [[Assam]], killing at least 10 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/Asamiya-Pratidin-1997-08-09.html |title=Atrocities by Indian soldiers in Kakapothaar, Tinsukia, Assam, India |publisher=Cs.uccs.edu |date=1997-08-09 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref>
-A strong wave or pro-ULFA sentiments spread across Assam after this incident and many parts of upper [[Assam]] saw spontaneous protests of people.<ref name="telegraphindia.com"/> The popular sentiments gave strength to a considerably weakened ULFA in Assam.<!--<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org//papers18/paper1733.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 7, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217214503/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers18/paper1733.html |archive-date=December 17, 2010 }}</ref>-->
+On 10 February 2006, nine people were killed by bullets of the armed forces and Assam Police at Kakopather. Six of them were protesters and two were residents of Kakopather hit by stray bullets from the indiscriminate firing. The protesters were among the thousands of residents that poured out from villages in and around Kakopather and took to the streets demanding justice for the custodial death of Ajit Mahanta, a 23-year-old resident of Dirak Gohain gaon in Kakopather.
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{{short description|2006 event in Assam, India}}
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'''Kakopathar killings''' or the '''Kakopathar massacre'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/assa-f20.shtml |title=Assam: Police kill at least 10 during protest against Indian Army murder - World Socialist Web Site |publisher=Wsws.org |date=2006-02-20 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pd.cpim.org/2006/0226/02262006_assam%20rally.htm |title=Cpi(M)'S Massive Rally In Assam |publisher=Pd.cpim.org |date=2006-02-26 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref> took place in [[Assam]] during 2006 when the Indian army opened fire at peaceful protesters at [[Kakopathar]] in [[Assam]], killing at least 10 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/Asamiya-Pratidin-1997-08-09.html |title=Atrocities by Indian soldiers in Kakapothaar, Tinsukia, Assam, India |publisher=Cs.uccs.edu |date=1997-08-09 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref>

They were protesting against the custodial-death of a villager who was arrested by the army. [[Kakopathar]] and many areas of rural [[Upper Assam]] and [[Lower Assam]] is supposedly an [[ULFA]] stronghold and the common people have faced army atrocities during counter-insurgency operations since the [[Assamese Separatist Movement]] started in 1979. [[Arabinda Rajkhowa]], the chairman of [[United Liberation Front of Asom]] compared it with the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]].<ref name="telegraphindia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060220/asp/opinion/story_5850159.asp |title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion |publisher=Telegraphindia.com |date=2006-02-20 |access-date=2013-02-12}}</ref>

A strong wave or pro-ULFA sentiments spread across Assam after this incident and many parts of upper [[Assam]] saw spontaneous protests of people.<ref name="telegraphindia.com"/> The popular sentiments gave strength to a considerably weakened ULFA in Assam.

==See also==
* [[Assam Conflict]]
* [[Nellie massacre]]
* [[Bhimajuli Massacre]]
* [[Assamese nationalism]]
* [[Assam Agitation]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/joylaxmi-saikia.html Massacres in Assam by Joylaxmi Saikia Borah on Human Rights Violations in Assam ]
* [http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/mass1997cases35-54.html Twenty Cases of Human Rights Violation in Assam in 1997 ]
* [http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/human-rights/sanjib-baruah.html An introduction to Where Peacekeepers Have Declared War, Human Rights Violations in Assam ]

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