Date
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Incidents
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January 1
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The ULFA, in a press statement, describes Chief
Minister Hiteswar Saikia as a Ganasatru (people’s enemy)
of Assam and affirms that it would never compromise with an ‘anti-people’
Government led by him.
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January 7
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The Sentinel, quoting unspecified intelligence
sources, states that most of the senior leaders of the anti-talks
ULFA, barring its commander-in-chief, Paresh Barua, are currently
sheltering in Upper Assam to reorganize the outfit at its grassroots
level.
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January 10
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Army sources report that between April 1, 1991,
and January 7, 1993, the army has arrested 1545 ULFA terrorists,
recovered 176 weapons, 7953 rounds of ammunition and a cash amount
of Rupees 6, 48, 000. A total of 3317 ULFA cadres surrendered
during this period.
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January 22
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Nine ULFA terrorists, including two Kachin-trained
cadres, surrender before the administration at an unspecified
place in the Dibrugarh district.
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January 26
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ULFA terrorists kill three civilians and allegedly
hang their bodies for public display at Nagaon, Morigaon and Jagiroad
respectively.
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January 31
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93 ULFA terrorists surrender before the authorities
in the Sonitpur, Sibsagar and Barpeta districts.
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February 11
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Assam Chief Minister, Hiteswar Saikia, in a statement
in Agartala, claims that 90 per cent of the total number of ULFA
cadres had already surrendered and the Government has planned
rehabilitation schemes for them.
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February 17
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Seven ULFA terrorists, including a Kachin-trained
cadre, are arrested from an unspecified place in the Sonitpur
district.
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February 19
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33 ULFA terrorists surrender before the administration
at Mangoldoi in the Darrang district.
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February 20
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A Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) is signed between
the Government of India, the Government of Assam and leaders of
the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) and Bodo People’s Action Committee
(BPAC), aimed at constituting a 40-member Bodoland Autonomous
Council (BAC).
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March 2
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Three Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
personnel and a National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN)
terrorist are killed as NSCN cadres attack the CISF personnel
on duty at an Oil and Natural Gas Commission drilling site at
Sarupathar in the Golaghat district.
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March 7
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Arnab Hazarika, ULFA ‘central publicity secretary’,
asks cadres belonging to the pro-talks faction to return all arms
and extorted money to the outfit by March 15.
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March 7
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An 11-member Bodo militant group, led by Prem
Singh Brahma, surrenders at a public rally held at Debagaon in
the Kokrajhar district in the presence of Union Minister of State
for Home, Rajesh Pilot, Assam Chief Minister Hiteswar Saikia and
ABSU president S.K. Bwismutiary. They deposit six 303 rifles,
two sten-guns, two .38 revolvers, one LMG, six TNT shells and
five grenades.
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March 16
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Six ULFA terrorists surrender before the district
administration at Darrang.
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April 5
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The BAC Bill is tabled in the Assam Legislative
Assembly by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Golok Rajbongshi.
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April 7
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Two ULFA terrorists, including Baphen Das, secretary
of the Jamuguri unit, are killed while one of their accomplices
is arrested following an encounter with a police patrol party
at Karsantall, under Jamuguri police station, in the Sonitpur
district.
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April 8
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The Assam Legislative Assembly passes the BAC
Bill, 1993.
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April 19
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22 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different
places in the Sibsagar district.
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April 25
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244 Bodo militants surrender at Kokrajhar along
with 24 rifles, 12 revolvers, 52 pistols, 20 double barrel guns
and 10 single barrel guns.
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May 2
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According to Sentinel, at least 584 Bodo militants
have surrendered during the last week of April at the Kokrajhar
and Bongaigaon districts.
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May 3
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Five NSCN terrorists are killed and another is
arrested while they were escaping after looting the Mancachar
Branch of the United Commercial Bank in Dhubri district. Two AK
47 rifles, one 9 mm carbine, one 9 mm pistol, one grenade and
the entire looted booty of Rs. 19,97,900 is recovered.
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May 7
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369 Bodo militants surrender before the administration
at Udalguri in the Darrang district.
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May 9
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307 Bodo militants surrender before the authorities
at Massalpur in the Nalbari district along with three sten-guns,
seven .303 rifles and 183 country-made rifles.
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May 13
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152 Bodo militants surrender at Gohpur in the
Sonitpur district along with 58 country-made rifles, six single
barrel guns, nine pistols, two revolvers, one sten-gun and some
grenades.
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May 19
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An 18-member interim executive council of the
BAC headed by S.K. Bwismutiary is constituted.
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May 30
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The BPAC and Bodo Volunteer Force (BVF) are dissolved
at a special session of ABSU and BPAC at Kokrajhar.
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May 31
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A new political party, the Bodoland People’s
Party (BPP), is formed with S. K. Bwismutiary and Prem Singh Brahma
as President and Vice President respectively.
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June 2
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Six ULFA terrorists, including a senior leader
identified as Pradip Mohan, are killed during an encounter with
the police at Nilaipukhuri in the Sibsagar district.
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June 9
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11 ULFA terrorists surrender at Sibsagar.
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July 10
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The ‘commander’ of the Kamrup district unit of
ULFA, Anandar Thakuria, surrenders along with four other terrorists
before the administration in Kamrup district.
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July 14
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At least 30 Bodo militants surrender before the
administration at Dudhroi in the Goalpara district along with
30 single barrel guns, 15 pistols and some hand grenades.
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August 30
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Nine ULFA terrorists surrender before the Chief
Minister, Hiteswar Saikia, at the Janata Bhawan complex in Guwahati
along with an unspecified quantity of arms and ammunition.
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September 13
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The Government dismisses 40 Assam Police personnel
in connection with the looting of arms and ammunition from the
Assam Police Battalion Headquarters at Kokrajhar by the Bodo militants
early this year.
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September 28
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12 ULFA terrorists belonging to the Goalpara
district unit, led by Madan Rabha, surrender before the Chief
Minister in Guwahati.
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October 10
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At least 10 non-Bodo civilians are killed while
more than 15000 others are rendered homeless at Kokrajhar and
Bongaigaon as unidentified Bodo terrorists set their houses on
fire.
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October 18
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A 13-member committee of all political parties
in Assam, headed by Mukut Sarma, is constituted to decide and
recommend to the State Government on the issue of the demarcation
of the BAC boundary.
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October 28
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Assam cabinet decides to include 2570 villages
in the BAC area.
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November 16
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S.K. Bwismutiary resigns as the Chairman of the
BAC in protest against the State Government’s alleged indifference
to the question of the boundary demarcation.
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November 20
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Prem Singh Brahma is appointed as Chairman of
the BAC.
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December 1
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S.K. Bwismutiary resigns from the Executive Council
of the BAC.
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December 19
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A convention of the surrendered ULFA militants
concludes at Bokaghat in the Golaghat district. They decide to
form a new outfit, ‘Jatiya Unnayan Bahini’ to set up indigenous
industries on a co-operative basis and to usher in a ‘green revolution’
in Assam.
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December 24
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Unidentified gunmen kill two ULFA terrorists
at Baregharia near Jorhat.
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December 26
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Four policemen are killed while three others
sustain injuries during an attack by ULFA terrorists on the Jagori
police station in Nagaon district.
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