[1][4] Activists of the Assam Agitation sought to block an assembly election that day and had cut communications to the Bengali enclaves, which were perceived to be pro-election.

[8] Taking advantage of the situation, local Assamese mobs surrounded and attacked the isolated Bengali Hindu villages, who were in significant number, at night.

Gupta explained the ethnic and linguistic fault lines that lay behind the massacre, which were so deep that the perpetrators did not distinguish between Hindus and Muslims.

This was the cause of the native sentiment of the original inhabitants the Assamese for their survival under the threat of Bengali-speaking doubtful immigrants whether it be Hindu or Muslim.

[12] In February 2018, the Compensation-demand Committee of Dead People in the Assam Movement took up the cause of the Bengali Hindu victims of the massacres in Khoirabari and Goreswar in 1983.