Incidents involving United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)

2008

May 5: Telegraph reports that Nirmal Konwar, ‘second-in-command of the 27 battalion’ of the ULFA, confessed that the outfit is now carrying out only operation-specific recruitment, where a person is assigned a single task and has no links with the outfit thereafter. Konwar and his wife were arrested when they were undergoing treatment at a nursing home in Guwahati on May 1. "If the target is a politician, persons having access to the political field are being selected for the purpose. Training is provided on the use of pen pistols," he said. The report added that these recruits, when arrested, cannot provide any clues to the police because they are unaware of the identities of those who engaged them.
May 1: A trooper, identified as Saheb Singh, and one ULFA militant, Ajay Deka, are killed during an encounter at Dalanghat under Kalaigaon police station in the Darrang district. Two militants, including one injured in the encounter, managed to escape. A pistol, two magazines, 115 rounds of AK-47 rifle ammunition and mobile phones were recovered from the incident site.

Two ULFA cadres, Indra Raja alias Numal Konwar and his wife Dharitri alias Damayanti, were arrested when they were undergoing treatment for malaria at a private hospital in the Guwahati city. They belonged to Baghara village in the Morigaon district and were trained in Bhutan.

One ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, identified as Kalpajyoti Gogoi alias Kolamoni, is arrested by the SFs during a search operation near Sapekhati police station in the Sonari district.
April 30: A joint team of the Army and Assam Police neutralised a ULFA transit camp at Bangshijhora hill in the Dhubri district. An unnamed senior police officer said the camp was frequently used by the ULFA, NDFB and KLO militants, since they have some common areas of operation and used this vital transit camp not only for shelter but also for ammunition supply. Ten rounds of live ammunition of 12 bore pistols, seven rounds of 12 bore fired cases, eight live and five spent rounds of ammunition of AK-47 rifles, 18 live and seven spent rounds of .22 pistols, two blank detonators, 500 grams of explosive, one improvised explosive device (IED), wires, one 7.62-mm magazine of LMG and one rotating block of AK-56 were seized from the camp. A Global Positioning System device, a digital diary, two blank extortion notes signed by the ‘commandant of 709 battalion’ of the ULFA, Hira Saraniya, a Chinese camera, 20 kilograms of rice and one kilogram of Bengal gram were also recovered.
April 25: 27 ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrendered before General-officer-Commanding (GOC) of 21 Mountain Division, Major General Chander Prakash, and senior police officials at Tamulpur in the Baska district along with a large number of arms, ammunition, and extortion notes. Of the 27 cadres, 19 were from the ULFA ‘709 battalion’ while the rest of them belonged to the outfit’s 27 and 109 battalions. Some of these cadres were reportedly trained in the ULFA camps in Bhutan and Bangladesh. "This is the fourth surrender since October. It is fallout of the growing differences of opinion between the top leadership and cadres of Ulfa," Major General Prakash said. He added that due to concerted counter-insurgency operations targeting the ULFA, the strength of the outfit has come down to hundred odd members in Lower Assam. He informed the media at the headquarters of the Red Horns Division that "The Red Horns Division, since the last many years, is trying to put consistent pressure on the ULFA, especially in the Lower Assam area, and this has helped in restoring peace."
April 23: Assam Police arrested three youths when they were extorting in the guise of ULFA militants at Jorhat. They were identified as Montu Dutta, Babajan Ali and Biren Bora.
April 23: Sentinel reports that the ULFA has changed its extortion strategy. Instead of issuing written extortion notes, the outfit is now demanding a huge amount of cash from the businessmen of upper Assam by sending SMS through mobile phones. The report added that when the security forces were conducting counter-insurgency operations in upper Assam, cadres of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA led by self-styled ‘commander’ Bijay Chinese were sending SMS to a number of businessmen of upper Assam demanding amounts ranging from INR 10 00000 to INR 50 00000.
April 22 : The Sivasagar district administration announced that a surrendered ULFA leader, Tileswar Lahon, who was allegedly involved in the April 13 killing of one Dulen Baruah at Himpora village under Moranhat police station, would be arrested. The announcement was made by Sivasagar Deputy Commissioner N.M. Hussain at his office when thousands of students and villagers under the leadership of the All Assam Students Union protested.
April 18: The Union Government categorically rules out any possibility of talks with the ULFA on its main demand for sovereignty. The Union minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar, said, "We are all for talks but these have to be within the ambit of the Constitution. The unity and integrity of the country is not negotiable, let there be no ambiguity on this front."
April 16: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Radhika V. Selvi, informs the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) that inputs suggest that the ULFA has been using the territory of Bangladesh to procure and smuggle arms and explosives into India. The Minister was replying to a question on whether ULFA commanders have a vast network running seven hotels and six nursing homes, besides procuring weapons through the port city of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.
April 12: One ULFA militant was shot dead by the Army personnel who retaliated when eight suspected ULFA cadres opened fire on them at upper Dihing Reserve Forest in the Tinsukia district.

Two ULFA cadres, Mandal Hasda alias Sadhu and Birbal Murmu, were arrested by the Army personnel at Gwmfela under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.
April 7: ULFA hoisted its flags at several places in the State on the occasion of its ‘raising day’.
April 6: One ULFA-linkman is arrested from Debottarhasdah village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district.

One hardcore ULFA militant, Hemchandra Bora alias Udipta Hazarika, surrenders before the Assam Police in the Tinsukia district.
April 4: Sentinel reports that the ULFA has plans to execute a series of disruptive acts in the Dibrugarh district during its ‘foundation day’ on April 7. The report added that a group of 10 ULFA militants headed by hardcore militant Madhurjya Gohain are already moving around Tingkhong, Tengakhat, Khowang and Sasoni areas in the district and waiting for an appropriate situation to trigger bomb blasts and kill innocent persons. Militants have also reportedly intensified their extortion activities and have set a target of extorting around INR 50 00000 in the entire district.
March 31: 18 cadres belonging to various outfits, including 13 from the ULFA, three from the NDFB and one each from the Khaplang and Isak-Muivah factions of the NSCN, surrenders before Major General Jatinder Singh, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Mountain Division at Dinjan Military Station in the Dibrugarh district.
March 28: An ULFA cadre, Partha alias Rakta Kachari, surrenders before the Dibrugarh district administration and deposited a hand grenade at the time of surrender.
March 26: A joint team of Assam Police and the Army arrested a ULFA militant, Pramulya Boruah, from Neo Deoghariya village under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. The arrested cadre reportedly is an IED expert of the outfit.

A businessman, Raju Jain, is shot dead and his son Narendra Jain sustains injuries when suspected ULFA militants open fire on them at Mohkhuti under Nimuguri police station in the Sibasagar district.

One ULFA militant, Chanchal Dangoria, is arrested during a search operation at Matiakata area in the Tinsukia district. He was reportedly asked to survey probable sites for planting improvised explosive devices in the upper Assam districts of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh.
March 25: One person, Subhrajit Sonowal, was arrested while he along with two of his accomplices was trying to extort money, in the name of the ULFA, from one Bhola Lahon, a school teacher, at Bekadolong under Sonari police station. Two others, however, managed to escape. One motorbike was recovered from him.
March 23: One ULFA militant, Binoy Baishya, who was earlier arrested from Sualkuchi in the Kamrup district, confessed during his interrogation on that a cycle that was recovered from him was converted into a bomb. Following his confession, a team of explosive experts tore open the cycle on March 24 and found that the seat of the cycle can be opened easily and high power explosives like TNT and TETN were fitted into the hollow pipes of the cycle. One bomb and a programmable time device were also recovered from him.
March 20: One suspected ULFA militant, Manindra Rai,, was killed in a gunfight with a team of police and army personnel at Gouripur in Dhubri district.
March 17: One ULFA militant involved in several bomb blasts in the Tinsukia district was killed in an encounter with the police at Dirakbokhai village in the Dibrugarh district. Two other militants, however, escaped.

One suspected ULFA militant, Satyajit Chetia, was seriously injured when one of the bombs being carried by him exploded in the Sibsagar district.
March 15: SFs killed two militants, suspected to be either from the ULFA or the NDBF, during an exchange of fire at Silikhaguri Sapori under Narayanpur police station in the North Lakhimpur district. An injured militant escaped with his AK-47 rifle, while a pistol with five rounds of ammunition and a revolver with four rounds were recovered from the slain militants.

Six hardcore ULFA militants surrendered and laid down their arms at a formal ceremony at the Kamrup Deputy Commissioner’s office. The militants were involved in many operations, including bomb blasts, in and around Guwahati besides recruitment drives in lower Assam. The militants said that they were getting increasingly disillusioned with the manner of functioning of the outfit, especially their top leaders, which made them quit it and return to the mainstream.

Four persons were killed and more than 50 others, including some women and children, were injured in a grenade blast at Jonai in the Dhemaji district. According to official sources, about 15,000 people gathered in a field near the Jonai circuit house to celebrate Ali-Aye-Ligang, a festival of the Mising community, when suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade at the crowd. The deceased were identified as Bina Pegu, Kabita Sonowal, Sahadhan Ali and Someswar Sutradhar. However, the ULFA has denied its involvement in the attack.
March 13: Army shot dead a ULFA militant, Rupa Moran, after he lobbed a grenade at the troops at Hatibandha village under Tengakhat Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.
March 10: Three ULFA militants were arrested during a search operation at an unspecified place.

Two ULFA militants, 'sergeant major' Amrit Ballav alias Mizo and 'corporal' Bikram Hazarika alias Uttam Hazarika, surrendered along with arms and ammunition before the Golaghat district administration.
March 9: An ULFA militant, Suryamohan Rai, and a linkman, Shafiul Rahman, were arrested by the security forces from Golokgunj area of Dhubri district along with a pistol and INR 10,000.
March 9: Four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead by the ULFA militants near Udalguri tea estate between Chabua and Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district.
March 5: One person was injured when ULFA militants exploded a bomb near the District Magistrate's office at Lakhimpur.
March 4: Two ULFA militants, identified as Tapan Baruah alias Arun Baruah and Parikshit Chettry, were shot dead by the Assam Police during an encounter at Thanubam village under Barbaruah police station in the Dibrugarh district. Two pistols, some ammunition, explosives, three cell phones and some documents were recovered from the encounter site.
March 3: Three suspected ULFA linkmen, Abdus Sattar, Atowar Rahman and Hazrat Ali, were arrested by the Assam Police during a search operation at Damalkona village in the Dhubri district. One motorcycle was recovered from the residence of Abdus who was suspected to have used that for carrying ULFA cadres.
February 28: Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta, said that the Centre is not ready to hold any talks with the ULFA on the issue of "sovereignty of Asom". Gupta also said, "The ULFA has to give up violence before holding peace talks with the Centre, and there will be no mediators in the peace process. The Government is ready for only direct talks with the ULFA."
February 27: One person, identified as Ajit Ghosh, was killed and 14 others were injured in an IED blast by suspected ULFA militants at Borgolla Chariali near Tezpur Sadar police station in the Sonitpur district.
February 23: Police arrested a suspected ULFA linkman, Judhajit Das, from Barpeta.
February 21: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead a school teacher, Pradip Hazarika, at Kakopathar Harumechai village in the Tinsukia district. They also assaulted his neighbour, Jiten Changmai, before leaving the place. The same group also killed one Bhoyen Moran, a resident of the adjoining Bormechai village.
February 16: Four ULFA militants were killed in a joint operation by the Army and police in the Sibsagar district.
February 14: Police seized a boat that the ULFA had been using to ferry arms and its cadres to Guwahati city. Police also arrested seven persons including the boat driver, and seized 10-kgs of RDX from the boat at Goroimari in the Kamrup district, about 100-km from Guwahati.
February 12: A ULFA militant, Champak Sharma, suspected to have been involved in the abduction of FCI official P.C. Ram was arrested at Guwahati. Police also recovered an M20 pistol, ammunition, five kg of RDX and bomb-making materials from his rented house.
February 11: Police arrested a ULFA linkman, Abhinash Gogoi, from Panichokua area under Pulibor Police Station in the Jorhat district.

The Commander of the 27^th battalion of ULFA, Keshav Hazarika, Lieutenant Biraj Phukan and sergeant major Kumud Bordoloi, surrendered along with several others at Dinjan army base. Wife of Keshav Hazarika, Meenakshi Hazarika, reportedly surrendered in absentia.
February 10: Assam Police foiled a plan of the ULFA to hijack a plane from Guwahati airport to Pakistan and arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in the conspiracy. ULFA’s 709th battalion’s Manoj Tamuly alias Randip Baruah alias Kamal Das alias Haloi alias Pathak and his fiancee Dharitri Sarma, also an ULFA militant, were arrested from Panjabari Bagorbori area of Guwahati. During interrogation, Manoj confessed that the ULFA had planned to hijack a plane from Borjhar and to take it to Pakistan. Based on his confession, a prominent advocate, Nekibur Zaman, was also arrested. The house of a human rights activist, Lachit Bardoloi, was raided while a television journalist Pradeep Gogoi was arrested from Tinsukia.
February 6: Three persons were arrested by the police on February 6 for allegedly demanding money from an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation employee by posing themselves as ULFA militants. The trio, arrested from Geleky area in the Sivasagar district, was allegedly demanding INR 250000.
January 30: A hardcore ULFA militant and chief instructor of the outfit's 709 battalion, 'sergeant' Bubul Das alias Himangshu Rava alias Ritu Basumatary, surrendered before the police in the Baksa district.
January 27: Two ULFA militants and a Captain of the Gorkha Regiment of the Indian Army were killed in an encounter at Borpathar Rongagora under Doomdooma Police Station in the Tinsukia District. Acting on a tip-off that a group of ULFA cadres were taking shelter there, the Army personnel launched an operation. Captain S. K. Choudhury and two militants, identified as Tutu Maran alias Pallab Baruah and Jitul Dohutia alias Chandan, were killed in the gun battle. One AK-56 rifle, two magazines, more than 100 live bullets, one mobile phone and an IED were recovered from the incident site.
January 25: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with the army at the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest in Tinsukia. One of the slain militant was identified as Dhajiya Gogoi.
January 24: 38 ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrendered before the security forces at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. They also deposited 27 pistols, 18 grenades, 22 detonators, 30 kg of explosives and 150 live ammunition of AK-47 assault rifle.
January 22: Security forces shot dead a militant of the ULFA at Raidang village under Digboi Police Station. A pistol and four live cartridges were recovered from his possession.

Police arrested three ULFA linkmen, identified as Kishor Roy, Gautam Barman and Uttam Baruah, from the Boitamari area of the Bongaigaon district on an unspecified date allegedly for maintaining links with a top ULFA militant Pulak Bharali. The linkmen confessed that they were assigned to trigger violence on or before Republic Day (January 26) in the district.
January 20: Guwahati city police arrested two hardcore ULFA cadres from Golaghat district for their alleged involvement in a host of subversive activities in the city recently. They were identified as, Abhijit Dutta and Pradeep Kurmi, and reportedly masterminded the car bomb blast at Pan Bazaar in Guwahati in 2007.

In Tinsukia district, security forces arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Lambeswar Khotowal, from Borhapjan and another cadre, Daman Moran, from Borgaon. Security forces also recovered one revolver, 16 round of live bullet and few ULFA extortion notes from the militants.

An ‘area commander’ of the ULFA, identified as Madan Koch, was shot dead by security personnel when they neutralised a hideout at Katalbari near Garobadha in the West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. Two packets of RDX, a pistol with two magazines and some ammunition were recovered from the incident site.

Guwahati city police arrested two hardcore ULFA cadres from Golaghat district for their alleged involvement in a host of subversive activities in the city recently. They were identified as, Abhijit Dutta and Pradeep Kurmi, and reportedly masterminded the car bomb blast at Pan Bazaar in Guwahati in 2007.

In Tinsukia district, security forces arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Lambeswar Khotowal, from Borhapjan and another cadre, Daman Moran, from Borgaon. Security forces also recovered one revolver, 16 round of live bullet and few ULFA extortion notes from the militants.

According to intelligence reports, the ULFA has managed to sneak in a number of programmable time device switches into Assam through Bangladesh in the recent times. Police said that the ULFA has been bringing in weapons and explosives through Bangladesh by taking advantage of the porous international border and the 109 battalion of the outfit has been entrusted with the task of transhipment of weapons. The members of the battalion are based mainly in Garo hills of Meghalaya and in Goalpara district for the transhipment of weapons.
January 18: A ULFA cadre, identified as Dilip Kalita, was shot dead in a joint operation by the Army and police in the Konwarpur area of Sivasagar district. Three grenades and some improvised explosive devices were recovered from the spot.

Intelligence reports have said that a huge consignment of explosives and dozens of small arms has been transshipped into Assam by the ULFA from Bangladesh a week back and the consignment has reportedly been received by ULFA ‘commander’ of lower Assam, Hira Sarania, from the courier from Bangladesh.

Intelligence reports mentioned that 40 trained ULFA cadres had already sneaked into the State from Bangladesh to carry out subversive activities ahead of the Republic Day (January 26). They could target the public and crowded places, especially in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia.
January 16: A ULFA militant was killed in a gunfight with the Army at Kumari Gaon under Mahadevpur police station in Arunachal Pradesh along the Assam border.

Security forces arrested a hardcore ULFA militant, identified as Damodar Das of Karmipora village in the Darrang district. The militant confessed about the plan of ULFA to plant improvised explosive devices in several places of the district on the eve of Republic Day (January 26) and of his involvement in an extortion drive in the district. Security forces also recovered five crude bombs, three detonators, two mobile phones and two SIM cards from his possession.
January 13: One ULFA militant, identified as Bitupan Moran, was arrested from Rajgarh tea estate in the Tinsukia district. One kilogram of explosives, including six live rounds of AK 56 and 15 rounds of assorted ammunition, were recovered from him.

At least 17 persons, including six security force personnel, were injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered a powerful grenade explosion in front of the Paltan Bazaar police station near Guwahati railway station.
January 12: Four railway workers were injured when suspected ULFA militants lobbed grenades on them at Rongsal in the Dibrugarh district.
January 11: Police arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Arjun Deka, in the Baksa district and seized five French made timer devices.

Security forces arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Raju Chetri alias Moni Subba, and a linkman, identified as Diganta Hazarika, near Tingali Bam Tea Estate under Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district. Some leaflets of the outfit were recovered from their possession.
January 10: Security forces killed a ULFA militant, identified as Corporal Puwali Dowerah alias Hiren Dowerah, in an encounter at Ahukhat village under Makum police station in the Tinsukia district. The security forces also recovered one .32 pistol, one magazine with two live rounds and three bicycles at the site of the encounter.
January 9: Two militants of the ULFA, including a woman, surrendered before the police in Dibrugarh. The surrendered ULFA cadres were identified as Bhaimon Changmai alias Nabin Dutta and Bina Payeng alias Rimi Bora. They also deposited a 9 mm pistol along with magazines and six live rounds of ammunition.
January 7: An Assamese poet, Santanu Sarma, was arrested at Malikuchi in Nalbari town on charges of writing seditious material for the ULFA and mobilising opinion against counter-insurgency operations.
January 6: One person, identified as Abdul Rehman Bepari, was injured when a bomb planted by suspected ULFA militants in his garage exploded at New Iddgah Colony in Dhubri town.
January 5: ULFA ‘sergeant’ Swapna Baruah alias Swapna Moran was killed in an encounter with the army at Dirak Rongpuri village of Tinsukia district.

Security forces arrested two ULFA militants, Nikhil Bhuyan and Jadab Saikia, from Naginimora in the Sivasagar district. An unspecified quantity of RDX, INR 11,000 in cash and incriminating documents were recovered from them.

Seven ULFA and three NSCN-IM cadres surrendered at an army camp in the Tinsukia district. They deposited two 9mm pistols, a .22 pistol, a revolver, four grenades and ammunition of assorted weapons.
January 3: One surrendered ULFA cadre and a Bharatiya Janata Party activist, identified as Jatin Lahkar, was shot at by two suspected ULFA militants at Datara under Ghograpar police station in the Nalbari district.

2007

December 31: ULFA accused the Union government of trying to gain political mileage over the peace talks issue and insisted that a written assurance should be given to discuss sovereignty to revive the peace process.

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

One ULFA militant is shot dead by a joint team of the police and Central Reserve Police Force at Bhetapara in the Basistha police station area of Guwahati.
December 30: One surrendered ULFA cadre, Bijoy Shankar Hazarika, and his wife, Anita, are shot dead by the ULFA militants at Khatikuchi under Ghograpar police station in the Nalbari district.

An encounter between police personnel and the ULFA militants is reported at Philobari in the Tinsukia district. Police suspect the outfit was planning to blow off a bridge over the Dibru.

Two ULFA linkmen, Utpal Mandal and Brindaban Tudu, are arrested by the Army personnel from near the Gurufella area under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district. Two pistols, seven rounds of ammunition and four magazines are recovered from their possession.
December 29: One militant of the ULFA [28th battalion ‘C’ company], identified as ‘corporal’ Dhaman Chetia, is killed by security forces at Kulabari village under Kakapathar police station of Tinsukia district. While another ULFA cadre, Amjad Chetia, is injured, one more cadre is arrested.
December 28: At least 21 residents of Guwahati city are arrested and later remanded to police custody for playing varied roles in ULFA’s network of subversion. "We rounded up 25 people in the past two days, of whom 22 were arrested on specific charges. The 21 people arrested today were remanded in police custody," an unnamed police officer engaged in the crackdown said.
December 27: An encounter between army personnel and the ULFA militants occurs in the Dangori reserve forest area of Tinsukia district. However, the militants manage to escaped from the incident site.

Four ULFA cadres, Akur Rabha, Neel Sagar Rabha, Ajen Marak and Uday Ghosh, were arrested with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition at Balaikhawar and Hatisila villages near Lakhipur. One AK-81 rifle, three magazines with 65 rounds of ammunition, one 9-mm Italian pistol with five rounds of ammunition, one crude bomb weighing one kilogram and fake currency worth INR 4000 were recovered from them.
December 25: One ULFA cadre is killed during an encounter with the Army in Sivasagar district.
December 20: Four militants belonging to the’ 709 battalion’ of the ULFA outfit surrendered before the Army at Kamalpur in the Kamrup district. While one of the surrendered militants is a ‘sergeant major’ another is a 17-year-old cadre who had joined the outfit while he was studying in Class X standard in Goalpara High School in western Assam. They deposited one Chinese pistol with two magazines and 20 rounds of live ammunition, few grenades, four explosive fitted with programmable timer devices at the time of surrender.
December 19: The Tinsukia District police arrested Nagen Moran, a ULFA cadre and a close associate of Jiten Dutta, leader of the ‘28 Battalion’ of the ULFA, from Margherita. During interrogation, Moran confesses before the police that he was involved in the car bomb blast that occurred at Beng Phukuri area in Tinsukia on November 25. On the basis of his confession, police arrested a doctor, Rupai Bora, who owns the Bora Nursing Home at Doomdooma. Bora allegedly provided medical help to the injured ULFA cadres and has also visited the militants’ camp at Lathau in Arunachal Pradesh.

Intelligence sources stated that the ULFA could strike before the three-phase panchayat (local self-government) elections, scheduled to be held on December 31, January 4 and 9 in Assam, to prove its existence and use the disruption as publicity stunts. The commander of the ‘Charlie Company of the outfit’s 28 Battalion’, Jiten Dutta, recently warned all Congress Party candidates, especially those who had deserted the party in the wake of the quit Congress notice issued by the outfit in February, but had rejoined the party ahead of the panchayat polls and are contesting the elections — of dire consequences. A five-member group led by self-styled ‘sergeant major’ from the ‘Alpha Company of the 28 battalion’, Tete Bezbaruah, is reportedly operating in the Mohong, Dirak and Pengeri areas of Tinsukia district.

December 15: A surrendered ULFA militant, identified as Ratul Das, was killed by some unidentified militants at his residence at Dharam Nala in the Karbi Anglong district.
December 13: Two hardcore ULFA cadres, identified as Dusmanta Nath and Ujin Rabha, surrendered before the security forces at Dariduri in the Goalpara district.
December 9: Police arrested four ULFA militants from different parts of the Guwahati city.
December 7: One unidentified ULFA agent, who bailed out militants by providing false documents to courts, was arrested by the Army from Binoy Gutia village under Borboree police station in the Dibrugarh district.
December 5: Security forces came under attack from the ULFA when five militants going along with a marriage party fired at them at Namhulung under Tengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. Security forces opted not to retaliate the firing but when they moved towards the marriage party, the militants fled towards the Doomdooma reserve forest.

Security forces arrested two ULFA linkmen, identified as Indrajit Moran of Julliard under Doomdooma police station and Pinku Chetia of Borali Gaon under Kakopathar police station in the Tinsukia district. Police later released Indrajit Moran as there was no specific prima-facie evidence against him.
December 3: A surrendered ULFA cadre, identified as Bogadhar Gogoi, was killed by two ULFA militants on at Bordoibaam village under Tengakhat police station of Dibrugarh district for allegedly helping the army to track down ULFA cadres. In retaliation to the killing, a group of masked men on motorbikes attacked an ULFA leader Madhurjya Gohain’s house in the same village and damaged some portion of his house and destroyed some of his belongings.
December 2: Six cadres of the Alpha and Charlie companies of the ULFA’s ‘28 Battalion’ in the Tinsukia district surrendered before the Police and laid down their arms. They also deposited an AK-56 rifle with two magazines, a Belgium-made 12 bore pump action gun with seven rounds of ammunition, a .56 pistol with 14 rounds of ammunition, a .36 high explosive grenade, 7 kg of TNT and two coils of flexible wire.

Suspected cadres of the ULFA lobbed a grenade at a garments shop near Kathiatoli in the Nagaon district injuring the shop owner and his son, besides another person who was there at the time of the blast.
December 30: Guwahati city police arrested a ULFA cadre, identified as Jitu Barman a.k.a. Prahlad Barman of Baksa district, from the city’s Ganesh Nagar area under Basista police station.
November 29: Two ULFA militants, identified as Gautam Das and Tiken Das, surrendered in a function held at Hajo military camp in Rangiya. They also laid down a pistol, 10 live cartridges AK-47 rifle.
November 26: One ‘Lance Corporal’ of the 109th battalion of the ULFA, Janardhan Rabha alias Joseph Rabha, surrendered before the Goalpara police in the Goalpara district along with one AK-81 rifle, three magazines, one hand grenade and 90 rounds of bullets.
November 25: Two civilians, including one identified as Shivili Devi, are killed and 14 others injured when ULFA militants triggered an Improvised Explosive Device blast at Manik Hazarika Road under Tinsukia town in the Tinsukia district. Five minutes before the explosion, a grenade was lobbed by unidentified assailants without causing any causality.
One civilian, identified as Umesh Shah, is killed and three others injured when the ULFA militants exploded an IED device near a tea stall at Athgaon area in the Guwahati city. Barely 10 minutes after the blast, another IED also exploded at the same place without causing any casualty.
Suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade at the office of the Sub Divisional Police officer of Bilashipara sub-division in the Dhubri district. However, no causality is reported.
Police personnel recovered a powerful IED along with a programmable time device switch from a house in the Ambikagiri Nagar area in the Guwahati city and arrested two unidentified ULFA militants.
November 23: Army personnel in a counter insurgency operation shot dead one ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA, Lambu Moran alias Suren Moran, at Manabhum Reserve Forest under Dayon police station in the Lohit district. One pistol, four live rounds of ammunition and six detonators were recovered from the slain militant. Lambu hailed from Mohong village under Pengeree police station in the Tinsukia district of Assam.
Security forces arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Mohan Rabha, along with a single-barrel gun and some fake currency notes from Makri in the Goalpara district. His confessional statement led to the arrest of one ULFA financier, identified as Tarun Marak alias Dekson, from Tikrikilla in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. Dekson is reportedly involved in carrying a huge amount of money from Bangladesh to Meghalaya and Assam on behalf of the group.
November 22: Seventeen militants - 15 belonging to the ULFA and two cadres of the DHD and the KLNLF - surrendered to the Army at Laipuli Army Camp in the Tinsukia district. The ULFA militants were identified as Kundil alias Biju, Kalyani Baruah alias Pratima Baruah, Teet Gohain alias Ratan Tamuli, Mintu Gogoi alias Pratim Dohotia, Pallabi Dihingia alias Maya, Jyoti Dutta alias Ankita, Bharat Sonowal, Kalshad Rabha alias Ratul Rabha, Narayan Rabha alias Amit Rabha, Bishnu Rabha, Moina Moran, Gulab Baruah alias Deep Baruah, Alpana Sonowal alias Sangita Sonowal, Pankaj Bora alias Dhan Bora and Kukheswar Saikia. The two cadres of the DHD and KLNLF were identified as Kanak Bora alias Ladu Baruah and Mujori Phangso alias Rukasen Phangso. The militants deposited 339 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 30 rounds of AK-56 ammunition, five grenades, one rifle and one pistol.
Police personnel arrested one ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA, Porag Bora alias Jyotish Bora, along with an Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad member, Palash Dutta, from a Golaghat-Dergaon bound passenger bus on PHCG road in the Golaghat district. The AJYCP member acted as the ULFA cadre’s guide.
November 21: Police personnel arrested four persons, Dilu Gogoi, Bhaben Baruah, Pankaj Sarma and Kuldip Hazarika, for demanding INR 20 lakh as ransom from a businessman in the name of the ULFA leader, Madhurjya Buragohain, from Guwahati city in the Kamrup district.
An encounter between the ULFA and Army personnel was reported at Solatiniali under Charaideo police station in the Sivasagar district. Five ULFA militants engaged in the encounter fled leaving the driver and the vehicle they were travelling in. The driver was reportedly arrested.
November 19: Eight militants belonging to the ULFA surrendered before the Army at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. They also deposited five pistols, 20 rounds of live ammunition and five grenades before the Army. They were identified as Akshya Kalita, Gautom Deka, Ranjti Nath, Phulen Das, Brajen Kalita, Bijoy Kumar, Nirmal Murmu and Pepa Boro.
November 18: Suspected ULFA cadres shot dead three surrendered ULFA leaders, identified as Srimanta Chetia alias Bijoy Chinese, Prahlad Maran and Kamal Kandha, at Natun Dallang in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.
November 17: Security forces neutralised one ULFA hideout at Nagapahar area inside Dilli reserve forest along the Assam-Nagaland border. Eight detonators concealed in eight packets along with three bags of magazines and daily requirements were seized from the camp.
November 16: Security forces shot dead one ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, identified as Raju Baruah alias Albert Gohain, at Jonai in the Sivasagar district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. However, four other cadres managed to escape from the incident site.
One self-styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Tulon Deori alias Prakash Deori, was arrested from a tea stall near Demow in the Sivasagar district. Deori, hailing from Deorigaon in Nitaipukhuri under Demow police station, had joined the ULFA in 1995 and trained in Myanmar in 1998. He also went to Afghanistan in 2002 and was reportedly with the ULFA ‘C-in-C’ from 2001 to 2006.
Police personnel engaged in gun battle with the ULFA militants at Dhuansola area under Majuli subdivision in the Jorhat district. However, no casualties are reported.
November 13: Security forces shot dead one ULFA militant, Hemo Gogoi alias Chintu Borgohain of Majuli, at Ajanti Gaon Ghat in the Sivasagar district. Two Chinese grenades, some detonators and Improvised Explosive Devices were recovered from the slain militant.
A surrendered ULFA cadre, Uttam Buragohain, is shot at and injured by unidentified militants at Dihingia village in the Tisukia district.
November 12: The ULFA military spokesman, Raju Baruah, revealed that two ULFA cadres were killed and seven others are abducted in the Mon district of Nagaland on November 11 by the NSCN-IM militants. Baruah demanded that the NSCN-IM release the ULFA cadres within three days.
November 11: One ULFA cadre, identified as Mridul Moran, is killed in an encounter with the NSCN-IM at a petrol pump in Tizit. One cadre of the NSCN-IM, identified as, S M Konyak, was also killed during the clashes. Two civilians were injured in the incident. Sources added that one ULFA militant was abducted by the NSCN-IM.
November 10: One self-styled ‘corporal’ of the 28th battalion of the ULFA, Utpal Bora, is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Mahadevpur area in the Lohit district.. One 9-mm pistol and four rounds of ammunition are recovered from his possession.
November 9: A top-ranking ULFA militant, identified as 'sergeant major' of the outfit’s '109 battalion' Ratul Rabha, is arrested during a joint operation by the army and police from Oidoba village near the Meghalaya-Assam border in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district. Superintendent of Police JFK Marak told that three kilograms of RDX was recovered from the militant.
November 7: The Army arrested two ULFA militants, Muzibur Rahman and Mahammed Munna, from Phalimari under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district. Three hand-made pistols and live cartridges are recovered from their possession.

One Myanmar-trained ULFA cadre, Anil Payeng, surrendered before the Majuli Sub Division Police Officer in the Jorhat district. Anil hails from Nalini Mising Gaon of Majuli.
November 6: Security forces during a search operation recovered a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in an ONGC oil pipeline at Mising village in Suffry under Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar district. The IED, weighing about 7-kg, is timed to blast off at 10 in the morning.

Another IED is recovered near the office of the Sivasagar Superintendent of Police. The ULFA is suspected to have planted the explosives. The explosive is planted in a bicycle to explode at 12.30 pm in front of the SP’s office. The SFs later defused the bomb safely.
November 5: Security forces arrested two senior ULFA militants, "second lieutenant" Somdev Phukon alias Ajit Phukon and his "corporal" wife, Popy Khanikar, at Bimalapur Charliali under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district, when the couple is going to Dibrugarh Medical College Hospital for the treatment of their son. Sources said that the couple had arrived in Assam from Myanmar a few weeks ago to replace Sujit Mohan as the commander of the ULFA’s 28th battalion. Somdev has joined the ULFA in 1988 and is mostly based in Myanmar. During interrogations he told that the group had released him for family reasons.
November 4: The ULFA militants killed two civilians, Papu Saikia and Kamal Maran, suspecting them to be army informers, at Mohang village in the Tinsukia district.

Security forces in an encounter killed one self styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Ranjeet Borah alias Ananta Mech, at Dua Pathar in the same district, reports Telegraph. One pistol is recovered from the possession of the slain militant. Sources said that Bora and two other ULFA cadres took shelter at Dahpathar village under Kakopathar police station. However, the two other cadres managed to escape.
November 2: An assistant manager of the Orang tea estate in the Udalguri district is abducted by a joint team of the suspected militants of the ULFA and the ANLA militants.
November 1: 68 militants, including 66 ULFA and two Adivasi National Liberation Army cadres, surrendered to the security forces in a surrender ceremony at the firing range of the 4 Assam police Battalion Headquarters at Kahilipara in the Guwahati city. The surrendered ULFA cadres comprised four ‘sergeant majors’ and six ‘sergeants’, including Bipul Neog alias Ujjal Gohain. Four women, including ‘sergeant major’ Tulshi Rabha alias Malati Santosh, are among the surrendered cadres. Eight AK-56 rifles, five pistols, ten revolvers, a single-shot pistol, 11 No. 36 grenades, 16 Chinese grenades, eight AK-56 magazines, 145 rounds of AK-series ammunition, 55 rounds of 9-mm ammunition, four rounds of .22 ammunition, an RT set, three electronic detonators, five No. 36 grenade detonators, three gelatine sticks, five kg RDX, a packet of Cordex wire, an RPG cell and five PTD switch are deposited by the cadres.
October 29: Two ULFA cadres, Nitul Sonowal and Muleswar Sonowal, are killed in an encounter with the security forces at Rangoli village in the Lohit district. Both the slain militants hail from the Dibrugarh district in Assam.
October 28: One ‘sergeant major’ of ‘B’ company of the 28^th battalion of the ULFA, Anirban Basu alias Ananta Duarah, is shot dead by the security forces in an encounter at Mahmora Bhalukonigaon under Kakotibari police station in the Sivasagar district. One grenade and a 9-mm pistol are recovered from his possession. Sources revealed that the deceased is responsible for extortion in the Sonari, Moran and Sivasagar areas.
October 26: Police personnel arrested one ULFA cadre, Amulya Das, from Fancy Bazzar area in the Guwahati city. Das had been working at a private business farm and hails from Bijulighat in the Nalbari district.
October 24: An encounter between the ULFA militants and the troops is reported under Tangeri police station in the Tinsukia district. Two suspected ULFA cadres are injured in the encounter. One SLR and two bags containing improvised explosive device materials are also recovered from the incident site.
October 23: Thirty-one ULFA militants and two from the KLNLF surrendered along with a huge cache of arms and explosives at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. One Thailand-made pistol, two PT 32 pistols, eight rounds of PT 32 pistol, an AK-56 Rifle, a radio set, ten rounds of AK-56 rifle, five rounds of 9 mm pistol, ten detonators, 20 metres fuse wire and four power gel explosives 801 (25 mm X25 mm) are deposited by the militants.

The ULFA has reportedly shifted several of its leaders from upper Assam to the outfit’s hideouts in Myanmar to prevent their surrender. A report indicated that Amrit Dutta, a key accused in the Sanjoy Ghose murder case, and Amritballav Goswami, a bomb expert from Golaghat district, are among those who are being kept in confinement at hideouts in Myanmar.
October 22: Two militants of the ULFA, Socrates Choudhury alias Vishal and Umesh Das, are arrested by Assam Police during a search operation at Fancy Bazaar in Guwahati city. They were working under the instruction of Hira Sarania, ‘commander of ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA. "The duo used to identify potential targets for extortion and then serve demand notes, signed by Hira Sarania. Their targets included businessmen, professionals such as doctors and engineers, as well as government officials. The accused have confessed to serving ransom demands to several persons in the city," an unnamed police officer said. "Choudhury is suspected to have been involved in some recent bomb blasts here. He is also being interrogated for identifying the explosives suspected to have been stockpiled by ULFA in the city," the source added.
October 22: ULFA’s 28^th battalion has reportedly served extortion notices on several businessmen in the Tinsukia district during the Durga Puja festival with an instruction to pay the amount on or before the ensuing Deepawali festival. Intelligence sources revealed that Jiten Dutta, who took over charge of 28^th battalion following surrender of Pranjal Saikia and Ujjal Gohain, has entrusted Dadul Bora and Luchi Neog of ‘C’ company to collect the amount from the businessmen before the Deepawali festival.
October 19: Security forces arrested one ULFA cadre of the 28^th battalion, Dhajen Gogoi alias Ranjan Gogoi, from Manbhum Reserve Forest in the Lohit district.
October 18: SFs arrested two suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants, Siddi Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar, from Lohajani village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district on charges of extortion from a school teacher. An extortion note demanding INR 1 lakh was issued to a school teacher, Ronjit Bhakat, in the name of the ULFA.
October 16: One senior cadre of the 28^th battalion of the ULFA, Pranjal Saikia alias Hiren Hazarika, surrendered to the security forces at Teju in the Lohit district. Saikia hails from Doomdooma in the Tinsukia district of Assam and had joined the outfit in 1990.

One ULFA cadre, Arun Deka alias Amarendra, surrendered before the Morigaon district administration.
October 13: An encounter between Army personnel aided by a group of surrendered ULFA cadres and ULFA militants is reported from Mahmora Tiloichuk village under Charaideo sub-division in the Sivasagar district. The encounter ensued following information received by the Army that ULFA militants are camping in the house of one Phani Gogoi. However, the militants managed to escape from the encounter site.
October 8: Security forces in an encounter killed self-styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Rajiv Saikia alias Raheswar Deka Baruah, at Lukili village under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district. One AK-56 rifle, three magazines, a 9-mm pistol, three pistol magazines, a grenade, three mobile sets and some incriminating documents are recovered from the incident site. One woman cadre of the outfit, identified as Mamu alias Satyama Bailung alias Rekha Bailung, was arrested from the same place.

SFs neutralised three ULFA hideouts at Dilli reserve forest near Namrup in the Dibrugarh district. IEDs weighing ten kilograms, several copies of ULFA’s mouthpiece Freedom, medicines and ration were recovered from the hideouts.

Suspected ULFA militants blew up a gas pipeline owned by the Assam Gas Company Limited at Nampum village under Chabua police station in the same district.
October 6: Two ULFA militants, including one identified as ‘sergeant major’ Lankeswar Rabha, are shot dead during a counter-insurgency operation at Konakhat village under Tongla police station in the Udalguri district. Police said the two militants had taken shelter in the house of a person, Oben Rabha. Some explosives, a satellite phone, a 9 mm pistol, a revolver, six rounds of cartridges, four mobile phones, a mobile charger, letter pads, telephone diaries and cash are recovered from the slain militants.
October 5: One unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead by Assam Police personnel during an encounter at Rakshasmari village near Chopai Tea Estate under Dhekiajuli police station in the Sonitpur district. While another militant manages to escape, one AK-47 rifle, one 9-mm pistol, two magazines of AK-47 rifle and two hand grenades are recovered from the encounter site.

At least four persons, including a woman, are wounded when around 10 ULFA militants attack the residence of Dipak Pal, a Bengali-speaking person, at Leferagaon in the Sivasagar district.
October 4: A grenade is exploded by the ULFA militants targeting Itachali police outpost in the Nagaon district. While two vehicles were damaged, no one is injured in the blast.

Security forces arrested three suspected militants of the ULFA, Bipul Bora, Prabin Bora, Jyoti Prasad Lahkar, near Borjuri area under Samaguri police station in the Nagaon district. One KLNLF militant, identified as Budheswar Ingti, was also arrested from the same location.
October 2: The ULFA denies a claim made by B. S. Jaiswal, General Officer Commanding-in-Charge of 4 Corps, that the outfit has links with Islamist outfits, including the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI). In an editorial in its mouthpiece Freedom, the ULFA accused the Army of launching a false propaganda "only to confuse the people."
October 1: One ULFA militant, belonging to the outfit’s 28th battalion, is lynched by a group of irate civilians in the 1 Joraguri village of Golaghat district. The militant, identified as Mangal Singh, a "sergeant major" in the battalion’s "B Company", along with two of his accomplices was trying to intimidate a panchayat (village level self-government body) member into paying them a huge amount of ransom. Two accomplices of the killed ULFA militant, identified as a ULFA conduit Monikanta Sare and a surrendered militant Ganesh Pegu, are wounded.

Two ULFA linkmen are arrested by the Army personnel from Jhagrarpar in the Dhubri district. One pistol and some blank notepads of the outfit are recovered from them.

Seven ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrender before the Army authorities at Laipuli in the Tinsukia district.
September 30: Two persons are killed and 25 others injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) was exploded by the ULFA militants near a restaurant at Doomdooma town in the Tinsukia district. Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), D.K. Pathak, informed that one the two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants, carrying the IED, was killed and the other wounded in the blast.

Four persons were killed and 21 others wounded in another blast triggered by the ULFA at Tinsukia town.

One bomb blast is triggered by suspected ULFA militants causing substantial damage to the pipeline of a public sector undertaking, Oil India Ltd, at Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district. B.C. Sarmah, chairman of the Assam Gas Company Limited, said the damage will disrupt gas distribution throughout upper Assam. The pipeline carries crude and natural gas from the oilfields of Dikom and Tengakhat to Duliajan.

One blast is triggered by the ULFA targeting another gas pipeline at an unspecified place under Lankashi police outpost in the Tinsukia district.

A surrendered ULFA cadre, Dipankar Boruah alias Bhaikon, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Panikheti in the Jorhat district. He had reportedly surrendered in Jorhat two years ago.
September 27: Two Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants surrender before the security forces at Golaghat. Prakash Timung a.k.a. Englong Timung and Moshe Finger a.k.a. Ancbung surrender along with two pistols. They have later told that the KLNLF had launched operations along with the ULFA to kill Hindi-speaking people in Karbi Anglong, adding that more than 20 ULFA militants are co-ordinating with the KLNLF to unleash violence.
September 25: An unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead by Army personnel during a counter-insurgency operation at Manabhum reserve forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. One 7.62 mm self-loading rifle along with 21 rounds of ammunition is recovered from the slain militant.
September 20: One self-styled ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA’s ‘28th battalion’, identified as Lohit Duara alias Atul Pachoni, surrenders before the SF personnel at an unspecified location. Duara, who joined the ULFA in December 1999, was trained in Myanmar. One grenade, one-and-a-half kg of RDX and some documents were deposited by the cadre. Duara hails from Ulutoli village in Jalukonibari area of Titabor subdivision in the Jorhat district.

ULFA has appointed Bijoy Das alias Bijoy Chinese as the new ‘commanding officer’ of the 28th battalion after the arrest of self-styled lieutenant Prabal Neog. Das hails from the Nalbari district and had been holding the post of ‘joint deputy commander’ of the battalion along with another senior ULFA leader, Bhaskar Hazarika.
September 19: Ranu Das alias Gita Gogoi, wife of the Myanmar-based ULFA cadre, Dipen Das, along with her 14-month-old child, is arrested from Naharlagun in the Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh. Several compact discs and incriminating documents are recovered from the house in capital Itanagar, where she was staying. The house was rented by Purabi, wife of Prabal Neog, who was arrested from Tezpur town in Assam on September 17.
September 17: The ‘commander’ of the 28th battalion of ULFA, Prabal Neog alias Benu Bora alias Aman Moran and his wife Purabi Neog alias Bonti Lahon, are arrested from Mission Chariali area under Tezpur town in the Sonitpur district. Neog was traveling with his wife from Arunachal Pradesh. Neog is a senior leader of the outfit, who masterminded the recent killings of the Hindi-speaking people in the Upper Assam districts. He was also looking after the eastern command of the ULFA. Neog, son of Haladhar Bora of Makum-Tarajan in the Tinsukia district, joined the ULFA in 1991. Earlier, he was the ‘vice-president’ of Tinsukia district committee of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Parishad, an influential youth organization in the state.
September 15: One ‘corporal’ of the ULFA, Amar Tanti, is killed by SFs in an encounter at Pakabam under Panitola police station in the Tinsukia district. Tanti hurled two hand grenades at the advancing SFs before he was shot dead.
September 13: A person, Imdad Ul Haque, is arrested by Assam Police from Jalukbari area in the Guwahati city, for his involvement in extortion in the name of the ULFA outfit.
September 11: The dead body of an unidentified ULFA cadre of the 28th battalion is recovered from the Manabhum reserve forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Sources indicated that the militant had died of malaria.
September 10: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead two civilians, Tarun Kundu, a restaurant owner and Ram Vilas Shah, a trader, at Talap Balibazar under Talap Outpost of Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

Security forces arrested one woman ULFA cadre, Momi Kochari alias Juri Sonowal, from Tiphung Ghat under Duliajan police station in the Dibrugarh district. Juri was associated with the ULFA for the last six years. One mobile phone and a pistol were recovered from her possession. Another woman ULFA cadre, identified as Momi Gogoi, was arrested from the Kakopathar area in Tinsukia district. Reports revealed that Momi joined ULFA two years ago and received arms training at Manabhum Reserve Forest in the State of Arunachal Pradesh.
September 9: Police personnel arrested two persons, Niru Jain and Anil Jain, from the Fancy Bazaar area in Guwahati for serving an extortion note to the Barpeta Zila Parishad (local government) official, Zakir Hussain, on behalf of the ULFA’s ‘709 Battalion commander’ Hira Sarania.
September 8: Six ULFA militants surrendered at the Tamulpur Army camp in the Baska district along with a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives. They included a female cadre, Jainali Das, who had undergone training in Bhutan in 1999 and had been active in Barpeta, Nalbari, Goalpara and Guwahati, under the command of top ULFA leader Hira Sarania.
September 6: Fourteen cadres belonging to the 28^th and 709^th battalions of the ULFA surrendered before the Inspector General of Police in Guwahati. They were identified as Dilip Kumar Sarmah - ‘second lieutenant’ of 709^th battalion, Robin Bejboruah and Lakshadhar Kalita - ‘sergeant major’ of 709^th battalion, Manish Gogoi and Syamata Gogoi ‘corporal’ of 28^th battalion, Dulal Bora, Rupam Gogoi, Chintu Gogoi, Anil Gogoi, Subhash Bora, Tapa Bora and Mitul Sandique of the 28^th battallion, Jayanta Roy and Rajani Kalita of 709^th battalion. One AK 47 rifle, three 9-mm pistols, a 0.22 rifle, two hand-made revolvers, a factory-made pistol, five grenades, two IEDs, four kg TNT, two electronic detonators, four non-electronic detonators, 18 rounds of ammunition of AK-47 rifle, six rounds of ammunition of 9-mm pistol and seven rounds of ammunition of 0.22 rifle are deposited by them.

Bhagawan Das, a junior engineer of Paschim Nalbari Development Block, who was abducted from the Nalbari district on August 25, is released by the ULFA militants near Pathsala in the Barpeta district.
September 5: Kamaleswar Das and his accomplice Joon Jyoti Sarma, the ULFA cadres who are allegedly involved in the Guwahati blast of September 1, confessed to having kept the LPG cylinder in the vehicle in which the bomb was strapped.

Kamaleswar Das, who is involved in the September 1 bomb blast triggered by the ULFA at Bamunimaidam in Guwahati city, is arrested from Kumarikata in the Nalbari district. The report added that his accomplice, Joon Jyoti Sarma, surrendered at Dispur police station. Both of them confessed of planting the bomb in a vehicle with the help of an ULFA militant, Dhiren Das, who operates under two other militants, Dipak Das and Bhaiti. Dhiren is a cadre of the 709 Battalion of the ULFA. Police discovered during the investigation that the operation was masterminded by another ULFA militant, Akash Thapa alias Saranga Patowary.
September 3: Guwahati police reportedly identified one Kamaneshwar Das as the main culprit of the ULFA-triggered Bamunimaidam bomb blast of September 1 in the Guwahati city. Das had hired the three-wheeler that is used in the blast around 15 days before and fitted it with the bomb at an unspecified location in the Nalbari district.
September 2: Police personnel arrested three persons, Champak Barman, Biswajeet Deka and Bhagawan Barman, from the Guwahati city in connection with the ULFA-triggered Bamunimaidam bomb blast on September 1. Bhagawan Barman is the owner of the van in which the IED was planted while the other two are his associates.
September 1: One person is killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a suspected ULFA-triggered explosion in the Bamunimaidan locality in Guwahati. The victim was identified as Ramlal Das, a cobbler from Begusarai district in Bihar. Police said a bomb kept in a three-wheeler went off at 11.45 am at the Railway Colony market of Bamunimaidan, a busy commercial area, leading to the explosion of three gas cylinders in the shops nearby.

Four suspected ULFA militants are arrested from a bus, plying from Simlaguri in Barpeta district to Guwahati, near Rangia along with three IEDs.

SFs arrested seven persons from several places in the Tinsukia district for having links with the ULFA. SFs recovered five kilograms of RDX from the residence of one of them.

SFs arrested one ULFA militant, Atul Rai alias Satyajit Barman, along with one hand grenade, two detonators and some fuse wires from Panchapur Rabhapara area under Bongaigaon police station in the Bongaigaon district.
August 31: SFs, acting on specific information about a likely weapons deal between the Manipur-based KRA and the ULFA at Laharijan under Bokajan police station of the Karbi Anglong district, arrested four militants on the National Highway-39. They were identified as Babul Baruah alias Prakash Baruah alias Kokai, a self-styled sergeant of ULFA’s 27^th battalion, Lung Min Thang, a cadre of KRA, Mannar Khan, an arms dealer and Abu Shama Ali. The Army recovered a 7.65 mm pistol with a magazine filled with four live rounds from their possession.
August 30: SFs in an encounter at Motir Patti village under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district killed Tapan Rai, a bomb expert of the ULFA. Rai is reportedly involved in several bomb blasts in the Guwahati city. One 9-mm pistol, four live cartridges and six empty cartridges are recovered from the incident site. However, some other ULFA cadres managed to escape from the incident site.

SFs arrested two ULFA cadres, Kishor Roy and Uttam Chaudhury, from their houses at Abhayapuri in the Bongaigaon district.
August 28: One ‘commander’ of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, Champak Sarma alias Ranjan, was killed by SFs in an encounter at Boragog village in the Kamrup district. While one SF personnel was wounded during the exchange of fire, one militant managed to escape from the incident site. A villager, Rupeshwar Deka, along with his family members was arrested for giving shelter to Ranjan and one of his accomplices in their residence. An AK-56 rifle, two grenades, two magazines, two mobile handsets, 37 live bullets, INR 4500 and extortion pads signed by Heera Sarania, ‘commandant’ of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, are recovered from the encounter site. Ranjan is reportedly involved in the April 17-abduction of P.C. Ram, the Director of the Food Corporation of India’s Northeast office, from Guwahati.
August 27: Two ULFA cadres, Chandra Deuri alias Deep and Bipul Sarania alias Pritam, are arrested during a search operation at Dakshin Birikhana area under Sarbhong police station in the Barpeta district. Arms and explosives, including one Chinese-make grenade, an Italian 9-mm pistol, two programmable devices, three detonators, a tape recorder and eight rounds of ammunition, are recovered from them.

Five ULFA cadres surrendered at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Golaghat district. They were identified as Manab Gogoi alias Putul Daimary, Bhogeswar Bora alias Debojit Bora alias Bhaiti, Rituparna Bora alias Abhinabha Saikia, Nipun Sonowal alias Pankaj Bora and Naren Kachari alias Narsen Rongpi.
August 25: Six suspected ULFA linkmen are arrested by SF personnel from Lahowal in the Dibrugarh district. Another ULFA linkman, Rinku Das, is arrested from Disangmukh village in the Sivsagar district. He was involved in a bomb blast, and confessed to be in direct communication with militant Ankur Shyam, belonging to the 'B company' of the ULFA's '28th battalion'. A grenade and some documents indicating his involvement in the blast in Sivsagar town in the first week of August 2007 are recovered from Das.
August 24: A self-styled 'corporal' of the 28 Battalion of ULFA, identified as Sunil Gogoi alias Gomen Moran alias Lombu, surrenders at the Army headquarters in the Dibrugarh district.
August 23: An unidentified ULFA militant is killed at Chagolia Part-II village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district. One villager, Prasanna Roy, is also injured in the encounter. An AK-56 rifle and some documents relating to the outfit are recovered from possession of the slain militant.
August 23: Police confirm that a group of eight ULFA militants, including two women cadres, led by Randhir Rava and Akash Thapa, had entered the Dhubri district prior to Independence Day and were last reported to be moving in the area.
August 21: Addressing the media in New Delhi, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the ULFA has set up camps in Meghalaya along the India -Bangladesh border. According to him: "The ULFA extremists often commit crime in Asom and slip over to Meghalaya or Bangladesh… Meghalaya is used as a safe passage or corridor by the rebels… What is now needed is a coordinated approach of all the NE state governments to take on the ultras while keeping the door open for the talks."
August 20: Two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants hurl a grenade in front of a commercial building at Moran town in the Sivasagar district. No casualty was reported.
August 20: A ULFA militant, Ananta Gogoi, is assaulted by local people of Chakma Basti near Chowkham in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Three militants reportedly demanded a ransom of INR 10 lakh from a shopkeeper at Chakma Basti at gunpoint. The shopkeeper informed the villagers who reportedly assaulted him and later handed him over to the police. Gogoi joined the ULFA outfit in 2005 and was trained in Myanmar.
August 14: Police personnel arrest Kailash Sarmah, a ULFA "negotiator" alleged to have settled several deals between businessmen and the ULFA, from Shantipur under Bharalumukh police station in the Guwahati city. An unnamed police official said that Sarmah has reportedly settled several deals on behalf of the ULFA in and around the Guwahati city in the past few years. "He is a negotiator. If ULFA demands Rs 100, he settles it, for say, Rs 75," added the police official.
August 14: The Deputy Inspector General (Central Range) of Assam Police, L.R. Bishnoi, said, "The proscribed ULFA is providing logistic support, mainly in the form of providing arms and ammunition, to the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) in carrying out the recent orgy of violence which has seen more than 30 Hindi-speaking people gunned down by the Karbi militant outfit." He disclosed that the ULFA had set up two base camps at Shingasan range and Deopani hill and a transit camp at Samelangso in the Karbi Anglong district. A 100-member group of the ULFA is providing support to the KLNLF, he added.
August 14: Police personnel recover three Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) from two separate places near Mangaldai in the Darrang district. Police raided the house of a civilian, Abdul Kadir, of Niz Kharupatea under Dhula police station and recovered two IEDs weighing about four kilogram each concealed in a bag. Police sources reveal that four suspected ULFA cadres, including a woman, had come to his residence and kept the explosives with the intention of exploding it in the adjacent Army camp.
August 14: The BSF during a meeting with the BDR authorities refutes claims by the latter that militant outfits have no bases in the Sylhet division. Commander of the BDR’s Sylhet division, Col. Abul Hossain, claimed that not a single militant camp of the outfits operating in India’s northeast existed in the Sylhet division. Sources from the BSF as well as an intelligence agency in the Cachar district said that as many as 25 training camps were still in existence in the area, with the full knowledge of the authorities in Bangladesh. Outfits operating the camps are the ULFA, the HNLC and the NLFT-Biswamohan Debbarma. ULFA has six such training camps at Rajghat and Ramnagar Tetultala in the Moulvi Bazaar district, Nushirapunji and Islampur in Sylhet district and Jagadishpur and Saidpur in Habiganj district.
August 13: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, in a Unified Command Structure meeting held at Guwahati, asked the security forces to dismantle all camps of the ULFA and KLNLF from Karbi Anglong district to put an end to the current killings of the Hindi-speaking people.
August 11: Two more civilians succumbed to their injuries raising the death toll to 14 in the ULFA and KLNLF-joint attack at Rongteron village under the Bokajan Police Station on August 10.

Suspected ULFA militants hurled a hand grenade targeting security forces at Borhat under Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar district. However no causalities are reported.
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.

Assam Police shot dead one ULFA militant, Jiten Sarania of Baska district, in an encounter at Hengerabari in the Guwahati city. However, two of his associates managed to escape in an injured condition. An unexploded grenade is recovered from the incident site.

ULFA ‘Sergent Major’ Kumud Bora, who is killed in an encounter with the Army at Bordubi Tea Estate in the Tinsukia district on August 9, is involved in extortion activities. Army sources said that Bora collected INR 6 million as extortion money from the Duliajan, Kakojan, Tengagaon, Rupai, Makum and Pengri areas of Tinsukia district.
August 9: A group of suspected ULFA militants shot dead one surrendered ULFA cadre, Pranab Moran, at Jutulbari village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

Security forces killed one ULFA cadre, Kumud Borah alias Jaykanta Moran alias Gondhia, at Bordubi Tea Estate under Doomdooma Police station in the Tinsukia district.

Police arrested Anirudha Nath, the main accused in the August 5 Agia bomb blast, from an unspecified location. Anirudha claimed that three ULFA militants had forced him to plant the bomb threatening to attack him and his family if he disobeyed.

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.

Two civilians are wounded when suspected ULFA militants triggered an explosion at Anandapur Tiniali under Dispur police station in the Guwahati city.

One civilian, Pranab Moran, is injured when suspected ULFA militants fired four rounds on him at his residence-cum-shop in Kheroni village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.
August 7: Three civilians, Ajit Bora, Debo Bora and Pranjal Gogoi, are killed and eight others injured, when ULFA militants triggered an explosion in front of the Jorhat police station in the Jorhat district.

A bomb planted by the ULFA militants in a dust bin near Kamrupa Hotel at Ganeshguri Chariali in the Guwahati city exploded injuring two civilians.
August 6: Police personnel arrested one ULFA activist, Bhupen Rajkonowar, from Paltan Bazaar in the Guwahati city. Earlier the police had recovered 15-kg TNT explosive from his parent’s residence at Tingkhong in the Dibrugarh district.
August 5: Eleven civilians were injured in a ULFA-triggered improvise explosive device blast near Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district. The bomb was kept in between gunny bags containing wheat and potatoes in a handcart. Police arrested the owner of the handcart, Mohammed Kalam Miya of Bihar, and Mohammed Ikramul Ansari, the shopkeeper from where the wheat and potato bags are purchased by the suspected militants.

Four civilians were injured in an explosion that occurred in front of the Assam State Trading Corporation bus depot in the same district.

Three civilians were injured in another bomb blast at Agiapara evening market in the Goalpara district.
August 3: A group of suspected ULFA and KLNLF militants shot dead one civilian, Shatrughan Pandey, at Dergaon market under Howraghat Police Station in the Karbi Anglong district.

Police personnel arrested three ULFA militants, Dibyajyoti Boruah, Mano Medhi and Utpal Rajbongshi from Bharalumukh and Dispur areas in the Guwahati city. 25 detonators, four packets of liquid explosive gel, two bundles of fuse wire and some extortion letters were recovered from their possession. The four packets of semi-liquid colourless substance with the tell-tale label "Power Gel 801 Explosive" have led police to surmise that ULFA has added nitroglycerin, a high-energy explosive similar to the one used in the 7/7 blasts in London, to its terror arsenal.
August 2: The security forces arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Babul Rabha, from Thamna in the Nalbari district along with one hand grenade.
July 31: Police arrested one ULFA militant, Joiram Rabha, at Tarun Ram Phukan Road in the Guwahati city.

Army personnel arrested ULFA cadre Arjun alias Ananta Moran from Dighalshaku village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.
July 30: SFs, during a search operation in two remote villages under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district, recovered 25-kg of explosives. The Dibrugarh Additional Superintendent of Police, Ashim Swargiary, said that 12 kgs of explosives were recovered from the house of one civilian, identified as Phulo Gogoi, i