↑"[T]riggered by the death of a high school student who had worked as a member of the AASU. He was killed in a village inhabited my Muslims of East Bengal origin. His death resulted in a series of attacks and counter-attacks between Assamese and immigrant villages..." (Kimura 2013:69)
↑"The violence according to [the Citizenship Rights Preservation Committee] was directed against linguistic, religio-linguistic, ethnic minorities and against the workers of the CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML) who opposed the agitation." (Nayar, Kannabiran & Tarkunde 1986:114)
↑"This was the first large-scale group clash reported during the movement." (Kimura 2013:69)
Nayar, Kuldeep; Kannabiran, K G; Tarkunde, V M (1986), "The Situation in Assam - A PUCL Report", in Desai, A R, Violation of Democratic Rights in India, 1, প্ৰকাশক Bombay: Popular Prakashan, pp. 114–120