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Three Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) men, including former ULFA leader
Abinash Bordoloi, killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in Nalbari
district.
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Paresh Baruah, in an interview to 'The Telegraph', called for
a 'scientific dialogue' with the Government of India.
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Four non-tribal settlers killed and four injured by suspected
United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
terrorists at Diphu.
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Bhabatosh Dutta, 'commander-in-chief' of Bengali Tiger Force,
surrenders at Nalbari.
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Union Government rejects the offer for unconditional talks by
the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
saying that the dialogue can begin only if the outfit shuns the
path of violence.
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Four civilians killed by suspected National Democratic Font of
Bodoland (NDFB) terrorists
in Nalbari district.
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In a press release, the NDFB announces its plans for 'selective
killings' targeting the rival bodo groups such as the BLT, All
Bodo Students' Union (ABSU), Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), Bodo People's
Action Committee (BPAC) and the All Bodo Women's Welfare Federation.
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Mainao Daimary, Publicity Secretary of the BLT expresses satisfaction
at the progress of peace talks between the outfit and the Indian
government.
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Three BLT cadres killed by NDFB terrorists at Bijni.
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Five non-Assamese woodcutters killed by unidentified terrorists
at Bishnupur village of Nalabri district. ABSU cautions ULFA against
aiding the NDFB in its drive for selective killing of rival Bodo
groups.
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20 ULFA terrorists surrender at Sarupat.
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138 terrorists including 123 ULFA, 9 NDFB, 2 MULTA and 2 Rabha
National Security Force (RNSF)
cadres surrender in Guwahati.
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11 woodcutters killed by suspected UPDS terrorists in the Thansa
forest area in Karbi Anglong district.
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Four ULFA terrorists killed in two separate encounters at Khangbari
and Soneswar village.
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Three ULFA terrorists
killed in an encounter in the Mazgaon area, Bongaigaon district.
On the same day, 13 ULFA terrorists, including the outfit's 'foreign
liaison officer', 'communication officer' and 'medical-in-charge',
surrender at the Misa Army camp near Nagaon.
|
February 7 |
Police
bust an abduction racket run by SULFA men in Guwahati and arrest
seven members of the gang.
21 houses set ablaze by
unidentified terrorists in the Kakasang area, bordering Karbi Anglong
and Golaghat districts.
NDFB clamps ban on Bodossa,
a newspaper published in Bodo language from Kokrajhar. |
February 8 |
Nine policemen killed and
three more injured in an ambush laid by unidentified terrorists
near Dehangi in North Cachar hills district. |
February 9 |
Security
forces raid and destroy two hideouts of the ULFA in Upper Dihing
Reserve Forest (East Block).The terrorists, however, manage to escape.
|
February 12 |
ULFA threatens wild life
campaigner Vivek Menon for campaigning against poaching of elephants
and rhinos in the State. |
February 23 |
Six
ULFA terrorists killed and three more injured in an encounter with
security forces in Meghalaya, at Garobadha in the West Garo hills
district, on the Assam-Meghalaya border. |
February 24 |
ULFA's Kamrup 'district
commander' shot dead. On the same day, eight more ULFA terrorists
are arrested. |
March 6 |
Six
persons killed in an ambush on a truck by suspected Adivasi terrorists
at Fulkumari village in Kokrajhar district. |
March 8 |
Three unidentified terrorists killed and a camp jointly run
by National Socialist Council of Nagaland--Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
and UPDS terrorists destroyed in a hilly terrain near Psongcherop
in Karbi Anglong district. On the same day, Andrias Marandi, the
joint secretary of All Adivasi Student Association (AASA) killed
by suspected Bodo terrorists in Gossaigaon city. |
March 10 |
Six
terrorists belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen surrender in Guwahati.
|
March 15 |
Six
ULFA terrorists belonging to the outfit's 'Enigma Unit' killed in
an encounter in a forest area under Krishnai police station in Goalpara
district. On the same day, six ULFA terrorists, led by the outfit's
Kamrup district 'operation commander' Raju Ahmed surrender at Baihata
Chariali in Kamrup district. |
March 17 |
Three youths, suspected to be police informers, were first
abducted and later killed by ULFA terrorists at Burinagar village
in Nalbari district. |
March 18 |
Six
persons, including two children killed and five injured by suspected
NDFB terrorists at Ramgaon village in Kamrup district. |
March 20 |
10
Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT)
terrorists arrested at Rani while collecting an extortion amount
of Rs 80,000. |
March 22 |
Five terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Mujahidin surrender in Guwahati. |
March 30 |
Five ULFA terrorists killed in two separate encounters in the
Tengi village of Tinsukia district and Kalakuchi village of Nalbari
district. |
April 7 |
Coinciding with the 'foundation day' of the ULFA, surrendered
members of the outfit, SULFA set up Asom Jatiya Mahasabha
(AJM) and issue an appeal for peace in the State. |
April 11 |
Four NDFB terrorists killed and six arrested in Saraibil village
and Runikata in Kokrajhar district. In a separate encounter, three
NSCN-IM terrorists killed at Lodhi Basti in North Cachar Hills district.
|
April 13 |
Former "commander-in-chief"
of the Bodo Militant Force and a general secretary of the Assam
Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), Prem Singh Brahma survives an
attack by armed terrorists at Hatiputa in Bongaigaon district. |
April 14 |
Kanta Langthasa, 'Home
Minister' of Dima Halim Daoga (DHD)
arrested by the Guwahati police. |
April 15 |
Three security force personnel
killed in an attack by ULFA terrorists near the Paneri police station
in Darrang district. |
April 21 |
Five ULFA terrorists including
the 'lieutenant' Naba Kumar Tara alias Jhon Sangma surrender at
Rangiya. |
April 24 |
Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA) identifies six Non-Government Organisations
(NGOs) including the Manab Adhikar Sangram samiti (MASS) in Assam,
North East Coordination Committee on Human Rights (NECHR) and North
East Indigenous Tribal Peoples’ Forum (NEITPF) in Assam for maintaining
links with the terrorist outfits. The State government directed
not to release any funds to the NGOs without proper 'physical verification'.
In the first pre-poll ULFA attack before the May 10 elections
to the State Legislative Assembly, two AGP activists killed by ULFA
terrorists at Diwanpara and Chakihali Bazar of Bongaigaon district. |
April 25 |
Chief Minister Prafulla
Kumar Mahanta, addressing a press conference in Guwahati, alleges
that ULFA terrorists in connivance with the Congress Party, were
targeting the AGP candidates. |
April 29 |
Twelve
AGP activists injured as suspected ULFA terrorists explode a grenade
near 'Janata Bhawan', the official residence of the Chief Minister
in Guwahati.
L K Advani,
Union Home Minister, talking to press persons at Sualkuchi, talks
about a four-point strategy chalked out by the ULFA to disrupt the
ensuing Assembly elections. |
May 1 |
The
general secretary of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), and also the party's candidate from Dibrugarh constituency,
Jayanta Dutta and four others killed and nine others injured in
separate ULFA attacks in Dibrugarh town.
The Operational Group of
the Unified Command, in its meeting in Narengi, decides to deploy
300 columns of security forces in the State during the elections.
|
May 2 |
An
AGP office holder and another AGP activist killed in an attack by
suspected ULFA terrorists at Raniganj in Bilasipara.
An activist of the Samajwadi
Party (SP) killed as unidentified terrorists in Rangiya attack his
vehicle. |
May 3 |
Six AGP activists killed
and 16 civilians injured in separate attacks by suspected ULFA terrorists
in Nalbari and Goalpara districts. |
May 5 |
Six
activists of the Congress Party killed and two others injured in
separate attacks by unidentified terrorists in Sonitpur and Kamrup
districts.
Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, addressing a press conference in
Guwahati, rules out the possibility of a unilateral cease-fire with
terrorists in Assam. |
May 6 |
Two
political activists, one each of the Congress Party and the AGP
killed as unidentified terrorists open fire at Gobradol in Nalbari
district.
All 36 candidates for the State Assembly elections from the
Jorhat district provided with bulletproof jackets in view of the
possible attack by an ULFA 'action group'. |
May 10 |
State
Legislative Assembly elections take place.
Three security force personnel
killed in an ambush laid by suspected UPDS at Dewhari Chakihota
in Karbi-Anglong district. Four security force personnel killed
in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast at Khonabagan Tiniali
in Jorhat district. |
May 14 |
Congress leader Tarun Gogoi
speaking to the press persons in Guwahati offers a unilateral cease-fire
to the ULFA and urges the outfit to 'come back to the mainstream'. |
May 15 |
The ULFA, in its newsletter,
Freedom, warns the Congress party, not to repeat its 'history of
betrayal and fratricide'. It also says 'there is no scope to forgive
the AGP for their crimes committed against the people of Assam and
particularly against the liberation struggle'. |
May 18 |
Tarun Gogoi takes oath
as the 14th Chief Minister in the State. He states his preference
for a peace process in the State in the line of Nagaland and Jammu
& Kashmir. |
May 22 |
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi,
talking to press persons in Guwahati, corroborates a two-prong strategy
to counter-insurgency in the State. |
June 3 |
10 adivasi woodcutters
killed by suspected NDFB terrorists at Lungsung Reserved forest
area in Kokrajhar district. |
June 4 |
Three ULFA terrorists killed
and five police personnel injured in an encounter at Dhalajan Fatagaon
in Jorhat district. |
June 5 |
The Chief Minister, talking
to a news agency in Guwahati, rules out the possibility of announcing
a unilateral cease-fire with the terrorist outfits in the State. |
June 6 |
12 security force personnel
injured in a pre-dawn rocket attack by suspected ULFA terrorists
on a Central Resrve Police Force (CRPF) camp at Dhupdhara in Goalpara
district. |
June 12 |
ULFA initiates massive
extortion drive in the State. Extortion notes sent to tea estates,
businessmen, professionals. Chief Minister, however, terms the drive
as a 'small scale' one. |
June 13 |
Nine
security force personnel of the Assam Rifles killed and another
injured in an ambush by NSCN-IM terrorists on an ambulance near
Namdang in Tinsukia district.
Three ULFA terrorists killed
in an encounter at Lainagar Dimrohala in Dibrugarh district. |
June 21 |
13
SULFA activists killed and 10 more injured in an attack by unidentified
assailants on a SULFA gathering at Moran in Dibrugarh district.
Governor Lt. Gen. (Retd.) S K Sinha, speaking to newspersons
in Tezpur, rules out the possibility of any cease-fire with the
ULFA and NDFB. |
June 25 |
The NDFB, in a press release,
claims that the outfit is committed to maintaining the age-old amity
between Bhutanese citizens and the Bodos of Assam. It refutes the
charge by the Bhutanese Home Minister that the outfit has mobilised
the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese people of southern Bhutan against
the Government of Bhutan. |
July 5 |
A hard-core ULFA terrorist
arrested from the official residence of a senior police official
of North Lakhimpur. |
July 6 |
Media
reports suggest that the ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah
has been injured in an explosion at the residence of a political
activist of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal in Bangladesh, Mir Kasim
Ali.
The Chief
Minister in a meeting with the Prime Minister, petitions him to
withdraw the extension in the area of cease-fire with the NSCN-IM.
|
July 9 |
The senior police official
involved in the July 5 incident, suspended for sheltering an ULFA
terrorist at his residence. |
July 13 |
A fresh round of tripartite
talks between the BLT, the Government of Assam and the Union Government
takes place in New Delhi. |
July 16 |
Six NDFB terrorists killed
in two separate encounters at Budrahabi village under Tangla police
and in Chakrasila Reserve Forest of Kokrajhar district. |
July 17 |
ULFA, in its mouthpiece
Freedom, calls upon the NSCN-IM to review its stand on an
extended Nagalim to 'avoid being projected as a chauvinistic
outfit'. |
July 18 |
Three civilians including
a woman killed by suspected UPDS terrorists at Barmatikhola of Hamren
subdivision in Karbi Anglong district. |
July 22 |
Three security force personnel
of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed in an ambush by
suspected NSCN-IM terrorists on a 14-vehicle convoy of the troop
near Laju in between Haflong and Lumding in North Cachar Hills district.
|
July 26 |
Red alert in Karbi Anglong
and North Cachar Hills districts following reports of a possible
clash between NSCN-IM and DHD terrorists. |
July 27 |
ULFA Chairman Arabinda
Rajkhowa, addressing the outfit's Martyr Day celebrations, calls
for a referendum in the State to decide the issue of sovereignty
for which the outfit is fighting. He adds that his organisation
wants a ‘political solution’ to the 'Indo-Assam conflict.’ |
July 29 |
Two CRPF security force
personnel and a driver of the vehicle they were travelling in killed
and five more security force personnel killed in an Improvised Explosive
Device explosion caused by suspected ULFA terrorists at Bhalukjuli
in Goalpara district. |
July 30 |
The UPDS, in a press release,
calls for a boycott of the Independence Day celebrations on August
15. The ULFA and the NDFB also threaten to disrupt the celebrations
in the State. |
July 31 |
Six Bhutanese citizens
including five forest officials killed and eight others injured
in an explosion at Dadgiri, along the India-Bhutan border in Kokrajhar
district. |
August 3 |
Mainao Daimary, Publicity
Secretary of the BLT, in an interview to a local daily, demands
a solution to the Bodo problem by September 15, the day on which
the cease-fire agreement between the outfit sand the Union government
comes to an end. |
August 5 |
10
people, including eight security force CRPF personnel killed and
two more injured in an explosion caused by suspected NDFB terrorists
at Silbari in Bongaigaon district.
Three ULFA terrorists killed and five security force personnel injured
in an encounter at Nalapara village along the Indo-Bhutan border
in Darrang district. |
August 9 |
The
UPDS calls for a strike in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills
districts on the Independence Day and warns people of the area against
participating in the celebrations. The outfit also states that its
cadres have been given ‘shoot-at-sight orders’ if anyone dared to
defy the outfit’s call.
Three NDFB terrorists killed
in two separate encounters in Ripu reserve forest and Sapkata village
of Kokrajhar district. |
August 10 |
Eight hardcore NDFB terrorists
surrender at Kahilpara in Guwahati. |
August 12 |
Three
NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter at Bagajuli in Nalbari district.
Six ULFA terrorists surrender at Nagaon. |
August 15 |
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
speaking on the occasion of the Independence Day celebrations at
Judges Field in Guwahati, appeals to terrorists in the State to
come forward for talks to find a peaceful solution to their problems.
|
August 8 |
The NDFB issues a press
release calling upon Bodos not to participate in the Independence
Day celebrations on August 15. |
August 15 |
The
ULFA reestablishes ties with the UPDS at the initiative of senior
ULFA leader Ashantabag Phukan.
Seven ULFA terrorists surrender
in Dhubri district. |
August 16 |
Three ULFA terrorists surrender
at Bilasipara and six more at Morigaon. |
August 17 |
The ULFA reiterates its
earlier pre-conditions for a peace process to be initiated. These
are: (1) Talks would have to be held at a mutually decided venue
outside India. (2) Talks would have to be held under the supervision
of the United Nations. (3) The main issue to be discussed is 'sovereignty'
for Assam. |
August 25 |
Suspected UPDS terrorists
kill four persons by blowing up a truck at Bhuligaon, near Bokajan
in Karbi Anglong district.
NSCN-IM terrorists attack truck at Kuligaon village, 280 km east
of Guwahati, and kill four civilians |
August 28 |
According to media reports,
ULFA Chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, states that there would be no
unilateral cease-fire leading to a dialogue with the Union government.
|
August
29
|
Assam Minister of State for Home, Pradyut Bordoloi confirms that
the Assam Government had sent a formal proposal to the Union government
requesting announcement of an unilateral cease-fire in Assam with
terrorist outfits of the State. |
September
1
|
Assam Minister
of State for Home Pradyut Bordoloi states that the State government
willing to play the role of a catalyst in talks between the terrorist
outfits of Assam and the Union government.
Chief of ULFA's
Sessa Dihing unit killed at Thengal village in Dibrugarh district.
|
September
5
|
Security forces kill six suspected NDFB terrorists in Barpeta district.
3 ULFA terrorists surrender before the Kamrup district police chief. |
September
6
|
Unidentified terrorists ambush convoy of Eastern Range DIG Ajit
Prasad Raut in Karbi Anglong district, and kill one police personnel
and injure another. |
September
7
|
Assam Minister of State for Home Pradyut Bordoloi states that a
majority of the ULFA leadership, except for a few persons, interested
in holding a dialogue with the government. |
September
15
|
Four suspected NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter with security
forces inside Manas National Park.
Decision taken to extend cease-fire with the BLT till January 21,
2002. |
September
18
|
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi suggests that Union government should
initiate peace talks with terrorist outfits operating in Assam.
|
September
21
|
Two Army personnel killed in ULFA-triggered bomb-blast near Kakapathar
Kumchang Tea Estate. Another succumbs to injuries later. |
September
24
|
Army personnel arrest five MULTA terrorists in Darrang district.
ULFA denies having contacted Union government for negotiations |
September
25
|
100 people injured, 40 of them seriously, in bomb blast by NDFB,
which derails North East Express at Baghmari in Bongaigaon district.
|
September
27
|
Two ULFA terrorists and one Army personnel killed in encounter at
Kumarigaon in Mahadevpur area along the Assam-Nagaland border. |
September 19
|
The Adivasi Cobra Militant Force (ACMF)
declares a unilateral cease-fire and urges the government to initiate
a dialogue with it.
|
September 28
|
The Assam government institutes an Inquiry Commission
under Justice (retd) Meera Sarma to probe the number of ‘secret
killings’ that allegedly occurred during the previous AGP regime.
|
October 2
|
Two ULFA terrorists and a security force personnel
killed in an encounter near the Diksom tea estate in Dibrugarh
district.
|
October 4
|
A delegation of ACMF led by Xabrias Khakha and
Kandu Murmu calls on the Chief Minister in Guwahati.
|
October 5
|
Four NDFB terrorists arrested at Vellore in Tamilnadu.
|
October 9
|
Security force personnel avert a major tragedy
by recovering 50-kg. explosives planted in the New Delhi- bound
Brahmaputra Mail in Dibrugarh.
|
October 11
|
Four ULFA terrorists surrender at the district
headquarters of Golaghat.
|
October 15
|
11 ULFA terrorists surrender at Lajpuli in Tinsukia
district along with arms and ammunition.
Tripartite talks between the Union and Assam
government and BLT representatives take place in New Delhi.
|
October 19
|
10 NDFB cadres and three police personnel killed
and another 25 injured as the NDFB attacks a police station at
Labdanguri in Barpeta district.
Two ULFA extortionists killed by villagers of
Pijupara in the Kamrup district.
|
October 22
|
Seven terrorists, including five ULFA and two
NDFB cadres, surrender in Tamulpur in the Nalbari district.
Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter
near the Assam-Bhutan border in Nalbari district.
|
October 27
|
Five Assam Police personnel killed and four others
injured in an ambush by the ULFA terrorists at Hazrathat village
in Dhubri district.
|
October 28
|
Three ULFA terrorists killed in two separate
incidents at Sadia and Pengeri in the Tinsukia district.
|
October 29
|
Four persons including two police personnel killed
in an attack by suspected DHD terrorists at Dhanasiri in Karbi
Anglong district.
Three persons, including an ULFA terrorist, killed
and three others injured in an encounter in Dimaruguri in Nagaon
district.
|
October 30
|
12 NDFB terrorists killed at Mora in the West
Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
|
November 7
|
'Commander' of the Koch Rajbongshi Liberation
Tiger Force (KRLTF), Subrata Roy alias Raju arrested along with
another cadre at Abhyapuri in the Dhubri district.
|
November 10
|
Mainao Daimary, ‘publicity secretary’ of the
BLT warns of ‘bloodshed’ if the State government holds Local bodies
‘ elections in the proposed ‘Bodoland Territorial Council’ (BTC)
area.
|
November 9
|
Four rockets hidden by the ULFA in a jungle
between the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya and Goalpara
district of Assam recovered.
|
November 17
|
Myanmar seizes an estimated 900 weapons including
AK–47 rifles meant for various terrorist outfits in Assam.
AGP leader Ganesh Moran was killed by ULFA terrorists
at Rangajan in Dibrugarh district.
|
November 21
|
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, I D
Swami states in Rajya Sabha, "The ULFA has not responded
to the offer of the Central Government for talks".
|
November 22
|
Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter
near Bolajhar village in Darrang district.
Four persons killed and eight others injured
in a grenade explosion by suspected terrorists at Sonari-Namtola
road in Jorhat district.
Three woodcutters killed by NDFB terrorists at
Palkajhora in the Dhubri district.
|
November 23
|
Three ULFA terrorists killed at Bholajhar in
Darrang district.
Nine terrorists belonging to the United People's
Front (UPF) surrender at Maza in Karbi Anglong district.
|
November 27
|
ULFA Chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, speaking on
the occasion of the ‘Protest Day’ says, "A meaningful dialogue
is the only way to a peaceful solution of the indo-Asom conflict."
|
November 29
|
Mithinga Daimary, ‘Publicity Secretary’ of ULFA,
reiterates the outfit’s insistence on the three pre-conditions
before the beginning of any negotiation.
|
December 1
|
18 non-Bodo organisations, in a citizens’ meet
at Guwahati, oppose the proposed move for the creation of the
Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).
|
December 3
|
Eight persons including six government officials
on election duty killed in an IED explosion by suspected UPDS
terrorists at Lamelangso in the Karbi Anglong district.
|
December 6
|
Four woodcutters killed by NDFB terrorists in
two separate incidents in the Dhubri district.
|
December 7
|
Xatra Mahasabha, a Vaishnavite religious group
offers to mediate between the ULFA and Union government.
|
December 15
|
In an interview to a regional newspaper, B Irakdao,
‘publicity secretary’ of the NDFB lays down conditions for peace
talks with the government.
|
December 13
|
Paresh Baruah, C-in-C of ULFA, calls up a regional
newspaper, Pratidin, to express his willingness for a ‘fruitful
and scientific negotiation’ on the issue of sovereignty. He, however,
insists on the three pre-conditions saying that giving up these
conditions would amount to deceiving the Assamese people.
|
December 16
|
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga offers to
mediate between the government and ULFA.
|
December 18
|
Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter
near Darrangmela in Nalbari district.
|
December 19
|
Three ULFA terrorists killed near Suwagpur in
Darrang district.
|
December 22
|
Nine terrorists of the Adivasi Security Force
(ASF) including the outfit’s Nalbari-Barpeta district unit chairman
surrender at Gopal Bazar Army camp in Nalbari district.
|
December 23
|
Three NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter
near Hathigor in Darrang District.
|
December 24
|
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, speaking to the media
near Silchar says, ‘Representatives of the ULFA and the Centre
could begin negotiations soon in spite of the outfit’s conditions
for peace parleys.’
|
December 27
|
Three NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter
and arms, ammunition and Chinese currency recovered at a location
north of Hathigor in Darrang district.
|
December 28
|
Two terrorists belonging to the National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
killed in an encounter near Kachugaon, Kokrajhar district.
|
December 30
|
A ruling Congress (I) activist killed by two
suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
terrorists near Bejkuchi village, under Nalbari police station.
In another incident, security forces killed an
ULFA terrorist in Darrang district
|
December 31
|
The Assam police make commando training mandatory
for the staff.
|