Major incidents of terrorist violence in Assam, 1990-2008

2008

March 13: Four persons were killed and nine others injured in a police firing on an irate mob which was protesting against the dismantling of a NDFB camp at Bengtol in the Chirang district.

March 9: Four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead by the ULFA militants near a brick kiln at Udalguri tea estate between Chabua and Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district.

February 22: Three KLNLF militants were shot dead by the security forces in an operation in the Kamalabhati village under Howraghat Police Station in the Karbi Anglong district. Two AK-56 rifles, four single barrel guns, 177 rounds of ammunition of assorted weapons were recovered at the site of the encounter.

February 19: Five employees of a private cement factory, Vinay Cements, were killed while another was injured in an attack by the Black Widow militants at about four kilometres from Umrangshu in the North Cachar Hills district.

February 16: Four ULFA militants were killed in a joint operation by the Army and police in the Sibsagar district.

February 11: Four persons, including an Assam Police Battalion soldier, were killed and two more injured when Black Widow militants ambushed a convoy of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd officials 20-km from Umrangsu in the North Cachar Hills district.

Three Islamist militants with suspected links to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, were killed in an encounter with security forces at Binajuli village under Agia police outpost in the Goalpara district.

January 14: Two security force personnel and three civilians were killed by Black Widow militants near Umrangsu town in the North Cachar Hills district.

2007

December 31: Three ULFA militants were killed by security forces in the Dibru Saikhowa National Park located across Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

December 14: At least four labourers were shot dead by suspected BW militants at the Longpo area under Umrangshu police station in the North Cachar Hills district.

December 13: Five people were killed and four others injured in a bomb blast carried out by suspected ANLA militants in a Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express train in Golaghat district. The explosion, which occurred between Naujan and Sugajan, destroyed the luggage van of the train and a small portion of the railway track as well.

November 27: Suspected BW militants shot dead 10 unidentified saw mill workers and injured eight others in two separate attacks at Bithorgaon under Umrangsho police station in the North Cachar Hills district. The militants set ablaze two saw mills and attacked the migrant labourers working there.

November 2: Seven CRPF personnel were killed in an ambush carried out by the BW militants at Theijuri in the North Cachar Hills district. The militants also took away arms and ammunition of the killed CRPF personnel and escaped.

September 30: Four persons are killed and 21 others wounded in another blast triggered by the ULFA at Tinsukia town.

August 12: Suspected KLNLF militants shot dead four civilians, Mahabir Swami, Nandalal Swami, Sila Gupta and Mohan Kanu, at Rongbonghat village under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district. Two other civilians, Kanhaiyala Swami and Ramesh Swami, sustained injuries in the attack.

August 10: A group of 10-15 suspected ULFA and KLNLF militants attacked a village at Dolamara in the Karbi Anglong district and shot dead 11 Hindi-speaking migrant workers. The dead include four women and two children belonging to two families originally hailing from the State of Bihar.

August 8: Nine civilians, including four women and three children, were killed and five others injured when a group of ULFA and KLNLF militants opened indiscriminate fire targeting the Hindi-speaking people at Ampahar Basti village under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

August 7: Suspected BW militants shot dead four civilians, Ashok Das, Santosh Mahato, Manna Dey and Bidhu Das, at Harinagar market under Joypur police station in the Dibrugarh district.

Three civilians, Ajit Bora, Debo Bora and Pranjal Gogoi, were killed and eight others injured when ULFA militants triggered an explosion in front of the Jorhat police station in the Jorhat district.

July 24: Three unidentified members of the BW group were killed in an internecine clash between rival groups of the DHD - Black Widow and the Nunisa faction, near a designated camp at Pathergaon under Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

July 20: Five civilians, including a four-year-old child, are killed and 18 others injured when suspected ULFA and KLO militants triggered a powerful bomb at Srirampur Chariali under Tamarhat police station in the Kokrajhar district.

July 5: Three civilians, Sarabat Ali, Min Bahadur Chetri and Kamal Bahadur Chetri, were killed when hundreds of armed Naga people, reportedly backed by the NSCN (IM), attacked three villages - Sonapur, Borholla and Dhekiajuli - on the Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district.

June 30: Four persons were killed and at least 40 others injured in four bomb blasts – three in Tinsukia district and one in Karbi Anglong district. Three persons were killed in two successive bomb blasts at a fish market and a textile market in the Tinsukia town.

June 23: Six persons, including three children, are killed and 14 others injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered an explosion in front of a mosque at Machkhowa in the Guwahati city.

June 3: Four police personnel are killed and two others sustained injuries when KLNLF militants ambushed a police patrolling party at Koilajan area under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

May 26: Seven persons are killed and 18 others injured in an explosion triggered by suspected ULFA militants in the Athgaon area of Guwahati city.

May 16: ULFA militants kill three civilians, Tankeswar Sahu, Dipak Agarwal and Srinath Agarwal, in the Golaghat district.

May 15: The ULFA militants shot dead six unidentified Hindi-speaking people in various areas of the Dibrugarh and Sivsagar districts.

May 3: Three ULFA militants are killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Barkhajan village in the Nalbari District. Two of the them were identified as the ‘second lieutenant 709th battalion’ Chanakya Barman alias Khaplang and Pranab Kalita alias Jogesh Kalita alias Bastab.

April 23: SFs killed three ULFA cadres, identified as Udhav Deka alias Sanjeeb Kalita, Parameswar Deka alias Mrigen Dutta and Ganesh Kalita alias Goutam Sarma, at Adingagiri Kalishola hillock along the Assam-Meghalaya border. They recovered one M-20 pistol, a grenade, five live cartridges, 500 grams of explosives, plastic jars and some incriminating documents from the incident site.

April 2: In a counter-insurgency operation, security forces killed four ULFA cadres in the Udalguri district.

January 27: The DHD leader, Dilip Nunisa, claimed responsibility for the killings of 13 of their cadres who had deserted their camp at Dhansiri to join the rival Black Widow in Karbi Anglong on January 14.

January 7: Seven persons belonging to Bihar are killed and three others sustain injuries when ULFA militants called them out of their homes at Borali Bari near Mahmara in the Sibsagar district and opened fire.

Assam Police said that six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead and one injured in an attack by the ULFA at Chokolia near Dimow in the Dibrugarh district

January 6: KLNLF militants kill eight polling personnel and injure eight others during elections to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council. Militants exploded an improvised explosive device and fired on polling personnel when they were returning after the close of voting.

January 5: At least 19 persons are killed and 25 others wounded, when explosions were triggered targeting migrant workers in six separate locations in the eastern districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. Sibsagar district was also part of the area where explosion caused civilian casualty. Heavily armed ULFA militants attacked two brick kilns, fired indiscriminately on shops and business centres, besides triggering an explosion near a tea garden.

Eight persons are killed and 11 others sustained injuries when ULFA militants opened fire at Bandarkhat and Langswal Tea Estates under Duliajan police station in the Tinsukia district.

2006

November 5: At least 14 persons are killed and more than 52 others sustain injuries in two separate bomb blasts triggered by suspected ULFA militants at Fancy Bazaar and Noonmati area in Guwahati.

November 3: Three ULFA militants are killed by SF personnel in a counter-insurgency operation at Kardoiguri under Moran police station in the Dibrugarh district. A huge cache of arms and explosives is recovered from the encounter site.

October27: At least three civilians are killed and 22 persons, including one woman, a child and two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, sustain injuries when an improvised explosive device planted on a bi-cycle parked in front of Paramount Restaurant is triggered at Dhekiajuli town in the Sonitpur district.

October 6: At least 13 Railway Protection Force personnel are killed by in an ambush by the DHD militants belonging to the Black Widow faction in the North Cachar Hills district.

September 10: The DHD cadres belonging to the anti-talks faction headed by Jewel Gorlosa set ablaze two labour camps at different construction sites of the Northeast Frontier Railway’s broad gauge project in the North Cachar Hills, as the companies involved in the project fail to pay ransom to the militants. Additional Superintendent of Police Bidyut Buragohain confirmed that two labour sheds at Asong Haju and Saron Basti under Mahur police station were set ablaze by at least 12 cadres of the outfit.

August 14: Three persons, including a woman and her son, are killed and seven others sustain injuries when suspected ULFA militants triggered a grenade explosion targeting security convoys near Lifecare Nursing Home at Duliajan town in the Dibrugarh district.

August 11: At least six police personnel are killed after suspected ULFA militants ambush a police convoy at Ratanipathar under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. While five personnel are killed at the incident site, another succumbs to injuries in the Assam Medical College Hospital.

August 1: At least six police personnel are killed after suspected ULFA militants ambush a police convoy at Ratanipathar under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. While five personnel are killed at the incident site, another succumbs to injuries in the Assam Medical College Hospital.

July 26: An unidentified DHD cadre belonging to the Jewel Gorlossa faction triggers a grenade explosion, targeting CRPF personnel, killing three civilians, including one female child, and injuring three others at a railway station in Maibong of North Cachar Hills district.

June 9: At least five persons, including a 10-year-old boy and a woman, are killed and 16 persons wounded in a powerful explosion triggered by the ULFA at Machkowa vegetable market in the Guwahati city of Kamrup district.

June 8: The ULFA triggers a series of grenade explosions, while targeting security force (SF) personnel, at various parts of the State leaving at least 25 persons wounded. While six persons are injured in a blast at Haiborgaon in the Nagaon district, another is injured when militants trigger a blast at Islampur Chowk in the Mangaldoi district.

February 10: Eight civilians and one SF personnel are killed during clashes between the villagers and SFs following the alleged custodial death of a suspected United ULFA militant at Kakopathar in upper Assam's Tinsukia district. The ULFA cadre, whom the villagers described as a civilian, was detained by the army on February 6 and his dead body is subsequently recovered.

2005

December 3: 379 houses are set ablaze by DHD militants in six villages of Mohendijua and Lunhnit areas in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 21: Suspected DHD militants kill nine UPDS cadres at Tamulbari under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 18: Seven persons are killed in the continuing ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district. Six bodies are recovered from the Doyangmukh area while another was recovered from Borlangphar Tisso village under Diphu police station.

October 17: Suspected DHD militants waylay two passenger buses travelling from Zirikinding at Charchim under Kheroni police station in Karbi Anglong district and kill 23 persons, including nine women, belonging to the Karbi tribe. The same group of armed militants later kill seven persons in the nearby Sarsing village and five more persons in Prseck village.

October 10: Six persons are killed during ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district. A group of 100 to 150 armed persons enter the Kheroni village, inhabited by the Dimasa tribe, and open indiscriminate fire killing six persons on the spot. Nearly 60 houses also set ablaze by the miscreants.

October 9: Six persons from the Bura Fanchu and Longsing Engti villages are killed and hundreds of houses are set ablaze by unidentified terrorists in separate incidents under Diphu and Bokajan police stations in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 8: Suspected militants enter the Karbi-dominated Borsing Bey village, seven km away from Diphu, and kill five Karbi villagers, including a two-year old child, and set ablaze more than 60 huts.

October 2: Five members of a family are killed by unidentified militants at Hemari Terang village under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

September 14: Eight persons are killed and several others sustain injuries as suspected Kuki Revolutionary Army militants open indiscriminate fire at Thekerajan village in the Karbi Anglong district.

August 7: Four persons are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in an explosion detonated by the ULFA at a bus stand at Boko in the Kamrup district.

June 19: Four ULFA terrorists and one SF personnel are killed during two encounters in the Nalbari district.

June 16: Four ULFA terrorists, including three woman cadres, are killed in an encounter with the police at Doloni village under Khowang Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.

2004

October 29: Five ULFA terrorists, members of the outfit’s ‘Action Group’, are killed in an encounter at Kasojuli village under Laluk police station limits in the Lakhimpur district. A large quantity of arms and ammunition are recovered from their possession.

October 5: Suspected NDFB terrorists shot dead at least ten civilians and wounded seven others in the Jalabila village of Dhubri district.

October 4: Six civilians are shot dead and seven others sustain injuries when terrorists affiliated to the outlawed NDFB opened indiscriminate firing at Gelapukhuri village in Biswanath Chariali.

October 3: Fourteen more persons are killed and at least 58 others sustain injuries in separate incidents of terrorist violence in Assam for the second consecutive day.

October 2: Suspected NDFB and ULFA terrorists trigger a series of bomb blasts and open indiscriminate firing at various places in lower Assam killing at least 24 people and wounding over 40.

August 26: ULFA triggers off a series of bomb blasts in different districts of Assam, killing six persons and injuring 80 others.

August 15: 17 persons, including 16 school children, are killed as ULFA detonates explosives at the venue of Independence day celebrations in Dhemaji town.

June 24: Seven bus passengers are killed and fifteen others sustain injuries as suspected ULFA terrorists detonate a bomb inside a passenger bus at Majgaon under Mathurapur police station limits in the Sibsagar district.

March 24: Suspected KRA terrorists kill at least 33 Karbi villagers in three separate places in the Karbi Anglong district.

March 19: Suspected terrorists of the anti-talks faction of UPDS kill six Kuki tribals and set ablaze seven houses at the remote Thengbong village in the Singhasan hills area of Karbi Anglong district.

March 3: Four ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with troops of the Red Horns Division of the Army at Tepkilobana in the Kamrup district.

January 28: Four ULFA terrorists trying to enter into Assam from Bhutan are killed in an encounter at Paharbasti under Tamulpur police station jurisdiction in the Nalbari district.

January 1: Four NDFB terrorists are killed in an encounter with the Army along the India-Bhutan border at Paharpur under Darrangamela police station limits in Nalbari district.

2003

March 16: Six civilians are killed and 55 others injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast set-off by ULFA terrorists under a passenger bus on National Highway No. 7, Bamunghopha, Goalpara district.

March 8: Suspected ULFA terrorists attack an oil storage depot and a gas pipeline in Tinsukia district, causing a loss of approximately Rupees 200 million to the Indian Oil Corporation.

2002

October 27: NDFB terrorists massacre 22 civilians after dragging them out of their houses in Datgiri village, Kokrajhar district.

October 13: Unidentified terrorists kill five persons in a grenade attack at a Hindu religious congregation in Bongaigaon district.

August 21: NDFB terrorists kill four police personnel and a civilian in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Maladhara, Lakhipur police station limits, Goalpara district.

July 30: NDFB lays an ambush near Durgapur village, Kokrahar district, killing five security force personnel and two civilians.

July 18: Seven security force personnel are killed and a civilian injured in an ambush, laid allegedly by DHD terrorists near Diyungmukh, a local market in the North Cachar Hills district.

July 14: Suspected NDFB terrorists massacre nine tribals at the West Maligaon forest village relief camps, Kokrajhar district.

April 5: NDFB terrorists kill five tribals at Hatiphuli relief camp in Kokrajhar and another at the relief camp in Tongsi, Dhubri district.

January 27: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill Kamrup Deputy district police chief Devajit Pathak and his driver on the Boko-Nalapara road by triggering an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) blast in Nalapara village.

January 23: Unidentified terrorists kill ‘vice-chairman’ of the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) in Karbi Anglong district.

January 15: Thirteen civilians are massacred by NDFB terrorists at Dailongjhar in Bongaigon district.

2001

December 3: Eight persons, including six government officials on election duty, are killed in an IED explosion by suspected UPDS terrorists at Lamelangso in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 29: Four persons, including two police personnel, are killed in an attack by suspected DHD terrorists at Dhanasiri in Karbi Anglong district.

October 19: 10 NDFB cadres and three police personnel are killed as the NDFB attacks a police station at Labdanguri in Barpeta district.

August 25: Suspected UPDS terrorists killed four persons by blowing up a truck at Bhuligaon, Karbi Anglong district.

August 5: 10 persons, including eight security force personnel, are killed in an explosion caused by suspected NDFB terrorists at Silbari in Bongaigaon district.

July 31: Six Bhutanese citizens are killed in an explosion at Dadgiri.

June 3: 10 tribals are killed by suspected NDFB terrorists at the Lungsung Reserved forest area.

May 3: Six Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) activists are killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Nalbari and Goalpara districts.

March 18: Six persons, including two children, are killed by suspected NDFB terrorists at Ramgaon village in Kamrup district

March 6: Six persons are killed in an ambush on a truck by suspected Adivasi terrorists at Fulkumari village in Kokrajhar district.

February 8: Nine police personnel are killed and three others are injured in an ambush laid by unidentified terrorists near Dehangi in North Cachar hills district.

January 29: 11 woodcutters are killed by suspected UPDS terrorists in the Thansa forest area of Karbi Anglong district.

January 13: Four civilians are killed by suspected National Democratic Font of Bodoland terrorists in Nalbari district.

January 2: Three Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadres, including former ULFA leader Abinash Bordoloi, are killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in Nalbari district.

2000

December 31: Four Hind-speaking persons are killed by suspected UPDS terrorists at Disobai forest in Karbi Anglong district.

December 28: Eight persons from the Hindi-speaking community are killed by suspected UPDS terrorists at Ranganagar village in Karbi Anglong district.

December 7: 28 Hindi-speaking traders and farm workers from Bihar are killed by suspected ULFA terrorists near Sadiya.

November 30: 22 persons -- a majority of them non-Assamese, including eight Bihari truck drivers – are killed in three separate massacres in the Bongaigaon district.

November 25: Eight woodcutters are killed by NDFB terrorists in the Lung Sung forest reserve.

November 8: Eight civilians, including seven of a non-Assamese community, are killed by suspected NDFB terrorists in Barpeta district.

October 23: 15 persons are killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in two separate incidents in the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.

September 14: NSCN-IM and UPDS terrorists kill eleven persons, including ten police personnel, in an ambush near Diphu.

August 25: Bodo terrorists kill five persons in a landmine blast in Kokrajhar district.

August 21: NDFB terrorists kill five civilians in Dhubri. At Garagaon, another group of NDFB terrorists kill Bodo legislator Mohini Basumatary.

April 19: UPDS terrorists massacre 11 persons in two separate incidents in Karbi Anglong district.

1999

October 3: Five police personnel are killed in an attack by ULFA terrorists near Rupasi in Barpeta district.

September 30: Four persons are killed in an attack by ULFA terrorists on a election campaign party of the Asom Gana Parishad at Dholpur Chapori, Mangaldoi district.

August 23: Unidentified terrorists launch a bomb attack on a vehicle of Central Reserve Police Force killing four persons at Maithang Bridge, Kakopathar police station limits, Tinsukia District.

June 29: Seven police personnel are killed in an explosion set-off by Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) terrorists in two separate villages near Rangiya, Kamrup district.

March 8: Seven family members of ULFA terrorists are killed in a retaliatory attack by SULFA cadres in Guwahati.

January 23: Seven civilians are killed by suspected NDFB terrorists in Darrang District.

January 1: Three police personnel are killed in an attack by suspected NDFB terrorists on a camp of the 7^th battalion of Assam police in Bhumka, Kokrajhar district

1998

December 20: Six security force personnel and four civilians are killed in an ambush laid by ULFA terrorists in Dhubri district.

December 12: Bodo terrorists kill 23 Muslim settlers in Kokrajhar district.

October 11: BLTF terrorists kill 13 Assamese and Bengali-speaking people in Darrang district.

September 28: Seven security force personnel are killed in an ambush laid by ULFA terrorists in Goalpara district.

1997

July 4: Prominent social activist Sanjoy Ghosh is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists.

June 8: Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta escapes a bid on his life when ULFA terrorists attack his convoy in Guwahati.

January 13: Bodo Security Force terrorists kill nine cadres of the rival Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF) in a raid on their camp in Nalbari district.

1996

May 23: Violent clashes between Bodo terrorists and Santhals leave more than 80 people dead in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts.

April 25: ULFA terrorists kill a local Congress (I) leader and four others near Margherita town, Tinsukia district.

1995

August 3: ULFA terrorists kill eight security force personnel in an ambush in Kamrup district

1994

May 27 - July 27: Bodo terrorists carry out large-scale attacks on non-Bodos, leaving more than 100 people dead and over 60,000 homeless.

1993

October 12: 50 people are killed by Bodo terrorists in the Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts.

1992

October 13 – November 21: 61 people died in Guwahati and Barpeta districts in three bomb explosions allegedly caused by Bodo Security Force terrorists.

1991

October 13: 21 persons are killed in a bomb explosion on board in a train engineered by Bodo Security Force terrorists.

July 1: ULFA abducts 14 persons, including an engineer hailing from the erstwhile Soviet Union.

1990

May 9: ULFA terrorists kill Surendra Paul, a leading tea planter, causing many tea estate managers to flee the State.