January 3
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Security forces arrest 26 suspected United Liberation
Front of Asom (ULFA)
terrorists from different parts of the State.
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January 5
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Security forces arrest 19 ULFA terrorists along
with four DBBL guns, one SBBL gun and three hand grenades from
various places in Assam.
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January 6
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ULFA ‘commander’ Megha Phukan is arrested by
the army from Gohainbari in the Lakhimpur district.
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January 7
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Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, in a statement
in the Rajya Sabha (Lower House of the Indian Parliament), states
that the ULFA has linkages with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE).
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January 8
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Security forces arrest 53 ULFA terrorists from
different parts of the State and recover three cars, a motorcycle,
four SBBL guns, two DBBL guns, one pistol, one .22 rifle, one
revolver and some documents from them.
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January 20
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29 ULFA terrorists are arrested from various
places in Assam.
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January 27
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ULFA kills a civilian at Vidhyapur-Rabhapara
in the Bongaigaon district and another at Sagalsarai in Barpeta
district.
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January 27
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37 ULFA terrorists are arrested from various
parts of the State.
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February 16
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ULFA ‘central publicity secretary’ Sidhartha
Phukan states that the outfit would not sit for any dialogue with
the Assam Government till the Union Government continues with
‘army terrorism’ by imposing ‘Black Acts’ on the unarmed people
of Assam.
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February 25
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The Union Government appoints a three-member
committee of experts, headed by a retired Indian Administrative
Service officer Dr. Bhupinder Singh, to report on the state of
the plains tribes in Assam.
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February 28
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ULFA announces a unilateral cease-fire with immediate
effect in view of the ongoing school examination in Assam.
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March 3
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34 ULFA terrorists are arrested by the security
forces from various parts of the State.
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March 4
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30 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different
parts of Assam.
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March 10
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19 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
various places of the Dibrugarh, Goalpara and Sonitpur districts.
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March 20
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An ULFA terrorist and one soldier are killed
in an encounter at Hatigaon in the Goalpara district. A sum of
Rupees 20,000 is recovered from the slain terrorist’s possession.
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March 28
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21 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of the State.
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March 29
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25 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of Assam.
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March 31
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162 ULFA terrorists surrender along with a large
quantity of arms and ammunition before the Assam Governor, Loknath
Misra, at Dodabhat in the Lakhimpur district.
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April 4
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Bodo Security Force terrorists attack a meeting
of the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) and kill six activists
at Dohora Hatigaon in the Darrang district.
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June 14
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ULFA ‘commander’ Megha Phuakan, under detention
at the Tezpur jail, escapes in broad daylight after exploding
a grenade in the jail premises.
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June 21
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Tinsukia district Congress (I) Committee vice-president,
Rohini Bora, abducted earlier on June 20 by ULFA terrorists, is
killed at an unspecified place.
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June 26
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Five ULFA cadres, including Dibrugarh ‘district
commander’ Saurav Gogoi and ‘chairman’ Jugal Kishore Mahanta,
escape from the Dibrugarh jail.
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July 1
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ULFA terrorists abduct 15 high-ranking officials,
including a Soviet Coal expert Sergei Gritchenko, working for
Coal India Ltd. from Ledo, S.K. Tiwari, Commissioner (Personal)
from Guwahati, eight ONGC officers from Jorhat and Sibsagar and
M.M. Das ADC (Darrang) from Mangoldoi.
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July 9
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Assam Government releases 38 ULFA cadres from
various district jails of the State.
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July 9
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Media reports say the Soviet Coal expert, Sergei
Gritchenko, is killed by his ULFA abductors at an unspecified
place.
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July 10
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ONGC Chief Geo-physicist (Eastern region), Bhalanath
Jaiswal, is released by the ULFA at Jorhat in exchange for the
release of six ULFA detenus.
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July 15
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Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, speaking in Delhi,
clarifies that the Union Government will not interfere in the
Hiteswar Saikia Government’s efforts to resolve the ULFA problem.
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July 27
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Three civilians are killed when their vehicle
is blown up during a powerful explosion at Dipilachowk in the
Darrang district.
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August 14
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Ten police personnel are killed and the Nagaland
Assembly Speaker, Thenucho, sustains injuries during an ambush
by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland terrorists at Lahorijan
in the Karbi Anglong district.
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August 21
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Chief Minister Hiteswar Saikia, speaking to the
press in Guwahati, states that 500 police personnel recruited
during the last five years has links with the ULFA.
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August 27
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Samar Brahma Chowdhury, former Assam minister
and the Chairman of the Plains Tribe Council of Assam, his 20
year-old son and a security guard are killed in an attack by the
Bodo Security Force terrorists at his residence in Kokrajhar.
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September 15
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Army launches Operation Rhino in Assam.
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September 27
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Army arrests 69 ULFA terrorists from various
parts of the State.
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October 6
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Union Minister of State for Home, M M Jacob,
says in Kozhikode that the Centre has evidence to prove that ULFA
cadres have undergone training in subversive activities in Bangladesh,
Burma and have also obtained Chinese arms.
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October 10
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56 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different places of the State.
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October 13
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21 people are killed during a bomb explosion
on a train, engineered by the Bodo Security Force terrorists.
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October 22
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17 suspected ULFA terrorists surrender before
the security forces at Bardalani in the Sonitpur district.
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October 27
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ULFA terrorists kill Nitya Dutta, Deputy Superintendent
Police (Fire Service), at a restaurant in Guwahati.
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October 27
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40 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of Assam.
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October 29
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Two top ULFA leaders, Megha Phukan and Anirban
Hazarika, are killed in an encounter with the security forces
at Narayanpur in the Lakhimpur district, while four other terrorists
accompanying the duo are arrested.
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October 29
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42 ULFA terrorists surrender at Dolaghat in the
Lakhimpur district; 34 others are arrested from different parts
of the State.
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November 1
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Four civilians are killed and 40 others sustain
injuries during a powerful bomb explosion in a Guwahati bound
private bus at Barpeta.
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November 1
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Three police personnel are killed as terrorists
blow up a vehicle of the Assam Police Task Force patrol party
at Udalguri in Kokrajhar district.
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November 2
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Five persons are killed and 30 others sustain
injuries in a bomb explosion at Uzan Bazaar in the Guwahati city.
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November 8
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Three persons are killed and 34 others sustain
injuries during a bomb explosion at the Tangla Weekly market in
Darrang district.
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November 14
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32 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of the State.
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November 15
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Following a four-day operation, the Army recovers
300 assorted arms and .315 rifles from the forest areas of Karbi
Anglong district.
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November 18
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ULFA ‘general secretary’ Anup Chetia is arrested
from a hotel in Calcutta, capital city of West Bengal.
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November 20
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56 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of Assam.
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November 25
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Assam Chief Minister Hiteswar Saikia, talking
to newsmen in Guwahati, claims to have established indirect contact
with ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa for a dialogue within the
framework of the Indian Constitution.
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November 28
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Suspected Bodo terrorists kill two civilians
at Gualbeel village in the Nalbari district.
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November 28
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62 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different
parts of Assam.
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November 29
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Seven hardcore ULFA terrorists are arrested from
Bangalore, capital city of Karnataka in southern India.
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December 4
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26 ULFA cadres surrender at an army camp near
Nagaon.
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December 8
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21 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested in
Assam.
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December 14
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37 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of the State.
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December 16
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ULFA releases six hostages after 269 days of
captivity.
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December 17
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ULFA announces a unilateral and indefinite cease-fire.
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December 21
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ULFA ‘vice chairman’ Pradip Gogoi is arrested
from a hotel in Guwahati.
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December 22
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38 suspected ULFA terrorists are arrested from
different parts of Assam.
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December 26
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34 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different
parts of the State.
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December 27
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132 suspected ULFA terrorists surrender before
the Army in Dhemaji district.
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