They were protesting against the custodial-death of a villager who was arrested by the army . Kakopathar and many areas of rural Upper Assam and Lower Assam is supposedly an ULFA stronghold and the common people have faced army atrocities during counter-insurgency operations since the Assamese Separatist Movement started in 1979 . Arabinda Rajkhowa , the chairman of United Liberation Front of Asom compared it with the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Kakopathar massacre