Ranvir Sena - Mass Killings

Mass Killings

During the 1995 Bihar state elections, they killed 50 people.

They killed 10 workers in Haibaspur on the 23 March 1997. They wrote the name of the organisation in blood on the village well before they left. Most of the people Ranvir Sena killed that night belonged to families allegedly supporting Party Unity, a communist group.

On 11 July 1996, 21 Dalits were slaughtered by the Ranvir Sena in Bathani Tola,Bhojpur in Bihar in 11 July 1996. Among the dead were 11 women, six children and three infants. Ranvir Sena mob killed Women and Children in particular as per the design so as to demolish any future resistance which they foresaw.

On 1 December 1997, they killed 61 Dalits, which includes - 16 children, 27 women and 18 men with guns. The same night,disfigured and shot to death 5 teenage girls. Ranvir Sena said about the killings:

"We kill children because they will grow up to become Naxalites. We kill women because they will give birth to Naxalites."

After, they killed 8 low caste people who had ferried them across the river after the attack.

On 25 January 1999, there was a massacre of 22 dalit men, women and children by Ranvir Sena in the village of Shankarbigha, Jehanabad due to their alleged Naxalite allegiance. There was another massacre two weeks later in the neighbouring village of Narayanpur, where Ranvir Sena killed twelve lower-caste people.

In April 2012, members of the Ranvir Sena were acquitted of Bathani Tola massacre in Bihar.

Year	Description	Trial
1996	Nadhi(Bhojpur): 8 killed in CPI(ML) attack on upper castes/landlords Nadhi(Bhojpur): 9 killed in attack by upper castes on SCs Bathanitola(Bhojpur): 22 Dalits killed by landlords, the worst of that year’s many attacks
1997	Haibaspur(Patna): 10 SCs killed by landlords Ekwari(Bhojpur): 10 SCs killed by upper castes Khadasin(Jehanabad): 8 SCs killed by landlords Lakshmanpur-Bathe (Jehahanabad): 61 Dalits killed in attack by upper castes Chauram (Jehanabad): 9 members of uper castes killed in CPI(ML-Liberation) attack
1998	Nagri(Bhojpur): 10 SCs killed by landlords
1999	Shankarbigha(Jehanabad): 23 SCs killed by upper castes Narayanpur(Jehanabad): 11 SCs killed by upper castes Usri Bazar(Jehanabad): 7 upper caste members killed in attack by CPI(ML-Liberation) Senari(Jehanabad): 35 killed in attack on landlords, first strong sign of MCC gaining strength Sendani(Gaya): 12 SCs killed by landlords
2000	Afsar(Nawada): 12 upper caste members killed in attack by OBCs Mianpur(Aurangabad): 35 OBCs/STS killed, the last major attack involving the Ranbir Sena before it went into the background

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