Militant Attacks on Non-Locals in Assam

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
2008	2	6	0
2007	12	88	33

2008

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

February 24: Suspected KLNLF militants shot dead two Hindi-speaking persons in the Bokoliaghat Rangnagar village under Bokoliaghat police station of Karbi Anglong district. The victims were identified as Biswanath Chauhan and Radheshyam Chauhan.

2007

November 27: Suspected Black Widow (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 labourers working there. The victims appeared to be migrant workers from outside Assam.

August 21: Unidentified militants hurled a grenade at the residence of a Hindi-speaking school teacher, Ranjit Prasad Gupta, at Natun Bazaar Pukhuripur in the Hojai town of Nagaon district.

August 12: Two Hindi-speaking Bihari migrants, Suraj Sahani and Nanu Satnami, are killed at Parokhowa bazaar under Howraghat police station.

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.

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

January 30: Two Hindi-speaking persons are shot at and wounded by the ULFA at Mazbat in the Udalguri district.

January 29: Two Hindi speaking people are shot dead by the ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Tinsukia district.

January 20: Two Hindi-speaking persons are killed and twelve are injured as ULFA militants trigger a powerful blast in Tinsukia town.

January 7: Six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead and one injured in an attack by the ULFA at Chokolia near Dimow in the Dibrugarh district.

Two Hindi-speaking persons are killed and five injured when ULFA militants opened fire targeting a brick kiln at Sepon Chagolia in Moran.

January 5: At least 48 persons are killed 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.