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North Kamrup violence

A series of violent clashes in Assam, India in January 1980, tied to the Assam Movement, in which most victims were Bengali-speaking Muslim (Miya) villagers and the Army was alleged to have committed atrocities against Assamese villagers. Through the 2020 snapshot, the opening named the event the North Kamrup massacre, describing it as part of the Bongal Kheda movement. Today the opening calls it the North Kamrup violence and carries the word massacre nowhere in it, though massacre survives five times in the body. A reader arriving now learns this was a series of violent incidents, and not that Wikipedia's own opening once named it a massacre.
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The opening as it read in 2020

North Kamrup massacre is part of Bongal Kheda movement in Assam , India. In 1980, 3 January, violence broke out in Barikadanga village . Barikadanga village is about 10 miles from Nalbari . The violence was openly directed against linguistic, religio-linguistic, ethnic minorities of Assam and people opposed to the agitation. Contemporary writtings are also reflects that. The incident triggered by the death of a high school student, Dilip Huzuri, a member of the AASU , who went to spread anti-Bengali movement in Barikadanga village. That time there was a series of incidents in North Kamrup .1 Violation of Democratic Rights in India .

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Today
“massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 5. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

part of bongal kheda movement in assam

Now

series of violent incidents in north kamrup

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