La massacre va ser documentada per primera vegada el proppassat 1 de novembre per Shashank Dalvi i Sreenivasan Ramki al web de la campanya online "Conservation India" , on van descriure que "cada any se sacrifica l'esfereïdora xifra d'entre 120.000 i 140.000 ocells a l'estat de Nagaland durant el seu pas per la regió".
The massacre was first documented on November 1, 2012, by Shashank Dalvi and Ramki Sreenivasan on the Indian online campaign site 'Conservation India' where they wrote that "a mind-boggling 120,000 to 140,000 birds are being slaughtered in Nagaland every year during their passage through the state."