Nidarabad murder case
1989 murder case in Bangladesh
Nidarabad massacre (Bengali: নিদারাবাদ হত্যাকাণ্ড) refers to the murder of Birajabala Debnath and her children by a mob in Nidarabad, Bangladesh, on 6 September 1989.
Background
The village of Nidarabad in under Harashpur Union of Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria District in Bangladesh. The Debnaths were a poor Hindu family belonging to the Yogi caste. Shashanka and Birajabala Debnath had three daughters and two sons and they were expecting their sixth child. The eldest daughter Suniti was married. Shashanka Debnath earned the family livelihood by selling moa, a kind of crunchy ball made of puffed rice and jaggery. Their family assets consisted of the meagre ancestral land.
A group of local land sharks led by one Tajul Islam were repeatedly threatening the Bengali Hindu family to leave their ancestral land and emigrate to India. However, the Debnath family stood their ground and refused to leave their ancestral property. On 16 October 1987, Shashanka Debnath was abducted and killed.
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