What I love about the letter locating the Nellie massacre in its context is that Nellie was neither the first nor the last. Hojai was in 1993. Kokrajhar (featuring Bodos and Bengali-origin Muslims) was in 2012. It has never stopped.

The Wiki pages for every one of these massacres have been edited to call the people killed "illegal immigrant Bengali Hindus/Muslims". Kokrajhar 2012 page even cites the then governor's 'concerns' about 'Greater Bangladesh' in the making. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.firstpost.com/india/ex-assam-guv-sk-sinhas-report-on-illegal-immigration-in-state-is-riddled-with-contradictions-dubious-data-7057761.html/amp

What is truly interesting about the whole history of violence, starting with Bongal Kheda and the subsequent post-independence massacres is that only one set of people keep getting massacred.

I suppose we could go full Oscar Wilde and say that to get massacred once is unfortunate, but to keep getting massacred this many times is just carelessness.

After all, what else but the language of farce is apt here?