January 1
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Safe
passage offered to United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
terrorists by Assam government.
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January 10
|
Three
terrorists, including an NDFB ‘commander’ killed in Karbi Anglong
district.
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January 15
|
NDFB
terrorists massacre thirteen civilians at Dailongjhar in Bongaigon
district.
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January 20
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Four ULFA
terrorists killed in encounter at Toli near along Assam-Bangladesh
border.
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January 21
|
Eighteen
persons massacred near Udalguri, Darrang district by NDFB terrorists.
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January 23
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Unidentified
terrorists kill Vice-chairman of the United People's Democratic
Solidarity (UPDS)
in Karbi Anglong.
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January 27
|
Suspected
ULFA terrorists kill Kamrup Deputy district police chief Devajit
Pathak and his driver on Boko-Nalapara road triggering Improvised
Explosive Devise (IED) blast in Nalapara village.
ULFA
terrorists injure ten Security force personnel using remote-controlled
Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Golaghat.
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January 31
|
Three
ULFA terrorists killed in encounter near Boko in Kamrup district
.
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February 1
|
Five
Nepalese killed by security forces in Kokrajhar district. Security
forces maintain that the five were terrorists who ambushed them.
Locals dispute the version. An inquiry is ordered into the incident
by the district administration.
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February 7
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The
Adivasi Cobra Force (ACF)
extends its unilateral cease-fire, announced on September 15,
2001.
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February 10
|
Three
unidentified terrorists killed by security forces in an encounter
at Heirok.
State
sub Committee on Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) decides to
recommend its formation under the Sixth Schedule of Indian Constitution.
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February 11
|
Four
Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) terrorists arrested
at Gauripur, Dhubri district.
ULFA
declares its support for proposed BTC.
Kokarajhar
killings’ report submitted to the district Commissioner.
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February 12
|
Bhumidhar
Barman, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on proposed BTC, submits
report to the Chief Minister.
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February 13
|
Assam cabinet
formally approves formation of BTC.
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February 14
|
Five
ULFA terrorists killed
in an encounter near State’s border with Arunachal Pradesh.
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February
24
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Four
ULFA terrorists killed at Boragaon in Tinsukia district.
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March
17
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Three
NDFB terrorists- one in Udalguri along the Indo-Bhutan border
and two in Kundrabilgaon, under Harisingha police station limits
in Darrang killed in separate encounters.
Five
ULFA terrorists -three from Balipara village and one each from
Shanristipur in Nalbari and Nagaon arrested.
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March
19
|
Eight
terrorists- four from ULFA at Akhara, 70 kilometres west of Guwahati
and three in Dhubri, and one NDFB terrorist in Kokarajhar killed
in separate encounters.
Separately,
two terrorists – one each from ULFA and United Peoples' Democratic
Solidarity (UPDS)
killed in Kamrup and Karbi Anglong respectively.
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March
20
|
All-party
meeting in Guwahati accepts government decision to create Bodoland
Territorial Council (BTC) under the Sixth Schedule of Indian Constitution.
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March
22
|
Two
ULFA terrorists, including a woman cadre, killed in an encounter
in a reserve forest under the Patacharkuchi police station limits
of Barpeta district, Assam.
Separately,
a 'commander' of ‘B’ Group, Arantu Hazarika alias Dwipen Talukdar
killed in an encounter at Arikuchi Balagaon in Nalbari district.
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March
24
|
ULFA
reiterates preconditions- venue for talks should be a third country,
should be under United Nations (UN) supervision, and ‘sovereignty’
should also be discussed -for talks.
ULFA
‘sergeant major’ Dilip Saloi alias Bhaiti Adhikary killed in Kamrup
encounter.
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March
25
|
Assam
Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, welcomes ULFA’s willingness for talks
but asks to drop preconditions.
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March
27
|
Local
residents lynch two UPDS
terrorists to death in Tardubi village, West Karbi Anglong.
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April
1
|
Assam
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA),
2002, not required in the State.
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April
4
|
ULFA
chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa rejects safe-passage offer made by
government.
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April
5
|
NDFB
terrorists kill five adivasis (tribals) at Hatiphuli relief camp
in Kokrajhar and another at the relief camp in Tongsi, Dhubri
district.
Four
persons injured in an attack by suspected NDFB terrorists on the
Kanchenjunga Express train at Alokjhar in Kokrajhar district.
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April
7
|
Five
ULFA terrorists killed in encounter at Balilessa Soondartala in
Nalbari district.
ULFA
observes 23rd ‘raising day’ at its camps in Bhutan.
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April
8
|
Chief
Minister Gogoi informs the State Legislative Assembly that there
are 18 Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA)
prisoners in the State. He also says, of the 5,005 persons booked
under TADA , cases relating to 3,637 have been solved till February
2002.
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April 12
|
Jorhat police
arrest ULFA ‘acting district commander’ Jagat Phukan .
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April 14
|
Reports say,
Nalbari district police chief warns local residents of the formation
of Islamic Surakhya Bahini (ISB), suspected to be a terrorist
outfit.
Three suspected
Reang terrorists killed along the Assam-Mizoram border in Hailakandi.
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April 18
|
Suspected
NDFB terrorists kill All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) ‘education
secretary’ Khwrwkhang Boro in Lantibari under Patacharkuchi police
station limits in Barpeta.
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April 20
|
Three NDFB
terrorists killed and two others injured in encounter with security
force personnel at Labdangri near Rajaghat in Manas. Seven ULFA
terrorists surrender at Laipuli in Tinsukia while another surrenders
at Barhampur camp, Nagaon.
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April 24
|
Three NDFB
terrorists killed in encounter at Gernchigaon village in Darrang
and two more in Nalbari district close to the Indo-Bhutan border.
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April 25
|
A 'corporal
and 'weapon training instructor' of ULFA killed in encounter at
Mahakhuli in Nagaon. ULFA 'publicity secretary' Mithinga Daimary
denies statement attributed to chairman Arbinda Rajkhowa that
the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) would be possible only
after a 'sovereign' Assam is formed.
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April 29
|
Reports claim
Bhutan is likely to permit precision strikes by Indian security
forces at ULFA and NDFB bases in Bhutan. Reports allege that ULFA
is providing arms training to Rajbansi youth in the jungles of
Bhutan.
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May 3
|
Suspected
NDFB terrorists kill former president of the Dhubri unit of the
All Bodo Students' Union in Multijhora, under the Gauripur police
station limits.
Gauripur police
arrest three Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA)
terrorists from Borbilarchar, under Dhubri police station limits.
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May 7
|
Umesh Rabha
bravery award instituted by the Assam government for civilians
who help fight terrorism in the State. Three annual awards to
be given every year. Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami
rules out unilateral cease-fire with ULFA.
Union Minister
of State for Home I D Swami, in Delhi, rules out the possibility
of unilateral cease-fire with ULFA
|
May 8
|
Four terrorists
killed in separate encounters -two ULFA terrorists, one each at
Elangidal and Dahali villages in Nalbari district, and separately
two NDFB terrorists at Mahargaon under Charduar police station
limits, Sonitpur district.
|
May
9 |
Illegal
arms manufacturing factory unearthed during a raid in Nalbar village,
Nagaon district.
|
May
13 |
Karbi
groups meet Union Home Minister L K Advani. The latter assures
them of official level talks on Karbi and North Cachar (NC) Hills
issues.
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May
14 |
Nine
persons injured at Gauripur in Dhubri district in various attacks
carried out allegedly by a combined group of suspected NDFB and
ULFA terrorists. Two persons later succumb to their injuries.
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May
15 |
At
an adivasi rally in Guwahati various non-Bodo groups, including
SJSS, allege that proposed the BTC is a prelude to a separate
‘Bodoland’ State.
Assam government
submits draft agreement to the Union government recommending the
creation of BTC. |
May
16 |
Chief
Minister Tarun Gogoi appeals to the Union government to hold talks
with the ULFA on the lines of the Naga peace process.
|
May
18 |
10
ULFA terrorists, including a woman cadre, surrender in Nalbari
district.
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May
19 |
First
Umesh Rabha bravery award for the year 2002 announced. The award
to be given to three civilians who would help fight terrorism
in the State includes a cash award of Rs 20,000, a gold medal
and a citation.
|
May
20 |
Self-styled
ULFA commander Tapan Baruah alias Madan Das killed in an encounter
in Talpathar Majhgaon, Tinsukia district
Three
NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter in Thulangjharkhola village,
Darrang district.
Suspected
UPDS terrorists kill four members of a non-Assamese family, including
a 26-day old child at Matikhola village in Karbi Anglong district.
They also set ablaze five houses in the vicinity.
|
May
21 |
Assam
observes anti-terrorism day.
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May
22 |
Report
says four ULFA terrorists arrested following a joint operation,
launched by troops of the 2nd Mountain Division and
personnel of Assam and Nagaland police at Lahurijan village, under
Bokajan police station limits.
|
May
23 |
ULFA
alleges that Bhutan has accorded permission to Indian armed forces
to conduct a limited operation against it.
UPDS
general secretary Horensing Bey signs ‘cease hostilities' agreement
with the Union government for a year, that is till year 2003.
|
May
25 |
Four suspected
women terrorists arrested from Bhagsijhora village in Dhubri district.
|
May
26 |
Inter
Services Intelligence (ISI) may use ULFA’s ‘commander-in-chief’
Paresh Barua to target its chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, claim
reports.
|
May
27 |
Nine
NDFB terrorists killed in encounter in Mahamaya forest area of
Dhubri district.
|
June 2
|
Suspected
NDFB terrorists kill three members of a family at Bongshijhora
village, under Bogribari police station limits in Dhubri district.
|
June 8
|
A
security force personnel, an NDFB terrorist and two civilians
killed during an encounter at Milanpur village, near the Assam-Arunachal
Pradesh.
|
June 9
|
Two
Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
terrorists arrested from a rented house at Rajgarh, Guwahati.
|
June 13
|
Two
terrorists belonging to NDFB killed near Barpeta Road and another
of the DHD terrorist outfit is shot dead at Harengajao in North
Cachar Hills district.
|
June 16
|
Media
reports say Adivasi Cobra Militants of Assam (ACMA) extended cease-fire
with the Union government for six months.
|
June
18 |
Six ULFA terrorists
killed in separate encounters--two at Vishnupur in Ulubari, another
two at Lakhimpur and two more at the Dumni Tea Estate in Nalbari
district. An SF personnel also killed in the last encounter.
Suspected
NDFB terrorists kill three civilians and injure another in Kokrajhar
district's Runikhata and under Bengtol police station limits,
in separate incidents.
|
June
19 |
Three- a SF
personnel and two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter near
Achabam Tea Estate in Dibrugarh district.
NDFB terrorist
killed in an encounter at Lotamari village.
|
June 20
|
Reports say,
approximately 25 Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda terrorists infiltrated
into Assam, through the international border with Bangladesh in
early June.
|
June 21
|
Suspected
NDFB terrorists kill three businessmen at Yogibeel, close to the
Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
|
June 23
|
Three UPDS
terrorists killed in an encounter on the Silanijan-Sokihola Road.
Two ULFA terrorists,
SF personnel killed in Subansiri-encounter, Nalbari district.
|
June 24
|
Eight Oil
and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) employees killed, six more injuried
Daldali, in Karbi Anglong district.
|
June 25
|
Three ULFA
terrorists killed in an encounter at Nanoipara, under Paneri police
station limits.
Civilian killed
and 28 more, including three SF personnel, injured in a grenade
attack by suspected ULFA terrorists near Mayapuri cinema in Bongaigaon.
|
June 26
|
Report says
book on Osama bin Laden, written in Bangla and printed allegedly
in Kolkata is being sold in the Moirabari area, Morigaon district.
Chief Minister
Gogoi informs visiting Union Petroleum Ministry and a high-level
team of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) that the State
would raise a special battalion to provide security to ONGC field-staff
working in remote areas.
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July 04
|
Formal
agreement to create the Bodo Territorial Council reached at a
tripartite meeting, in New Delhi, between the Assam government,
the Union government and Bodo groups. Decision taken to form a
joint expert committee of Sate and Union governments to suggest
changes in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
Muslim
United Liberation Front of Assam (MULTA) has linkages with Bangladesh-based
Jamat-e-Islami (JeI) Islamist fundamentalists, say reports.
|
July 5
|
Three
persons-–two unidentified terrorists and a civilian-–killed in
an encounter at Chakalipathar area, Golaghat district.
NDFB
terrorist killed in an encounter in the Madhyasantipur area, Dhubri
district.
|
July 14
|
Suspected
NDFB terrorists massacre nine Adivasis and injure five others
at the West Maligaon forest village relief camps, Kokrajhar district.
Intelligence
reports caution authorities on the presence of a 70-member-strong
ULFA gang in Sivasagar district, allegedly led by 'operation commandant'
Dristi Rajkhowa, and warn that they might sabotage Independence
Day celebrations.
|
July 16
|
At
least three security force (SF) personnel of the Army’s Jat Regiment,
including an officer, are killed and six more seriously injured
in an attack by unidentified terrorists near Jirighat in Cachar
district, Assam.
Six
ULFA terrorists, on their way to a training camp in Myanmar arrested
by Assam Rilfes (AR) personnel in Mon district of Nagaland.
|
July 17
|
The
Manipur-based United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claims responsibility
for the July 16-killing of SFs in Cachar district and clarifies
that 10 SF personnel had been killed in the ambush. It also indicates
that the attacks were carried out at the behest of ULFA.
|
July 18
|
Seven
security force (SF) personnel killed, and civilian injured in
an ambush, laid allegedly by DHD terrorists near Diyungmukh, a
local market in Assam's North Cachar Hills district.
At
a tripartite meeting in New Delhi, Union government agrees to
defer the ban on the BLT and continue to suspend operations, for
another six months beginning July 21, against the outfit.
|
July 22
|
Six Muslim
United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) terrorists surrender
in Dhubri district.
|
July 29
|
Four ULFA
terrorists, including a self-styled 'lieutenant' and a woman cadre,
killed in Parakuchi, near Ghaghrapar in Nalbari district.
|
July 30
|
NDFB lays
an ambush near Durgapur village, Kokrahar district, killing five
security force personnel and two others.
Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Rajapara village,
Kamrup district.
|
August 8
|
Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi says in Guwahati, terrorists might launch suicide
attacks ahead of Independence Day, August 15. However, his fears
did not come true.
|
August 9
|
DHD, ULFA
and NDFB join Independence Day boycott call given by various Northeast-based
terrorist outfits.
|
August 12
|
Assam Director
General of Police (DGP) Hare Krishna Deka says ULFA's linkages
with Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samiti (SJSS), a platform
of various non-Bodo organisatons, are being investigated.
|
August 13
|
Five Muslim
United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) terrorists arrested
from Udali, Nagaon district.
|
August 14
|
Four ULFA
terrorists killed in separate encounters--two near Suklapara in
Kamrup district and two more near Dudhnoi in Goalpara district.
|
August 21
|
Alleged NDFB
terrorists kill four police personnel and a civilian in an Improvised
Explosive Device (IED) blast at Maladhara, Lakhipur police station
limits, Goalpara. 17 other police personnel are also injured in
the attack.
|
August 22
|
UPDS 'commander-in-chief'
Long Kumar Kiling dies of feline attack in the forests of Assam's
Karbi Anglong district. His body is subsequently recovered along
North Cachar Hills district border.
|
August 23
|
Report says
H Dimasa, 'people's supreme council vice president' of the DHD,
is willing to talk with the Union government if he finds the latter
'serious'.
|
August 28
|
Five ULFA
terrorists killed in Kachkuripathar, Sarthebari police station
limits, Barpeta district.
NDFB terrorist killed in Udalguri, Darrang district.
|
August 29
|
Assam Police
chief says action would be taken against oil companies that have
paid extortion money to terrorists. His warning follows reports
of alleged payment to the ULFA by oil companies in Assam.
|
August 30
|
Two ULFA terrorists,
in Darrang district, and an NDFB terrorist, in Sonitpur, are killed
in separate encounters.
|
August 31
|
Three ULFA
terrorists killed following an encounter in Bamunkuchigaon, Patacharkuchi
police station limits, Barpeta district.
|
September
1
|
Lt Gen (Retd)
S K Sinha re-appointed Assam governor for a second five-year term.
|
September
3
|
17 women suspected
to be assisting terrorists arrested from the Sonai-Rupai reserve
forest, Dhekiajuli police station limits, Sonitpur district. 16
women and six men arrested in Potanala area, Barpeta district,
on August 30 on similar charges.
|
September
7
|
Security forces
recover 2,960 electric detonators buried by suspected terrorists
in the Dakshin Chubri area of Darrang district.
|
September
8
|
Railway police
seize an AK 47 rifle, 36 rounds of Self Loading Rifle (SLR) bullets
and other ammunition stocked in a box inside a coach of the Delhi-bound
North East Express, in Guwahati.
|
September
9
|
Four NDFB
terrorists killed in an encounter at Gopaljhoa, Mahamaya reserve
forest, Dhubri district.
|
September
11
|
NDFB 'chairman'
D R Nabla, in an interview given to a Guwahati-based daily through
electronic mail, says the success of Bodo and Naga peace talks
would encourage other terrorist outfits in the Northeast to come
forward for negotiations.
|
September
14
|
Two ULFA terrorists
and a security force personnel are killed in an encounter following
a raid on a terrorist hideout at Uttarkuchi village, Nalbari district.
|
September
15
|
Three NDFB
terrorists and a security force personnel are killed in an encounter
in Nailojailo, Sonitpur district.
|
September
22
|
Seven terrorists
are killed in separate encounters in Assam. These include three
National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM)
terrorists in Lungabari village, North Cachar Hills district;
two Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) terrorists in Ratabari
block (administrative unit) Karimganj district; and two ULFA terrorists
in Barbathargaon, Kamrup district.
Prabin Konwar alias Ramu Mech, the ULFA's 'east zone commander',
and another ULFA terrorist identified as Ranjit Rajkhowa alias
Jyoti Chaliha are arrested from a private nursing home in Diburgarh
district.
|
September
24
|
A court in
the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka sentences ULFA 'general secretary'
Anup Chetia and his two accomplices to seven years imprisonment
for 'illegal possession' of a satellite phone.
|
September
25
|
Reports say
the Assam government has sent to the Union government a draft
proposal on an amendment to the Indian Constitution in the context
of founding the Bodo Territorial Council (BTC).
|
October 1
|
ULFA women
'sergeant' Tulsi Rabha and another woman cadre, Malti Santoshi,
are arrested from Somphong Par, near Balda village, Goalpara district.
|
October 2
|
Union Minister
of State in the Department of Development of the North Eastern
Region (DONER) Arun Shourie terms ULFA's 'silence' over illegal
migration from Bangladesh as 'intriguing'.
|
October 7
|
Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi says a special cell of intelligence personnel drawn
from State and Union agencies would monitor the activities of
Pakistan's external intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI), and of the Al Qaeda.
|
October 13
|
Unidentified
terrorists kill five persons at a Hindu religious congregation
(Durga Puja Pandal) in a grenade attack at BOC gate, Bongaigaon
district.
|
October 18
|
Three NDFB
terrorists are killed in an encounter at a hideout in Ringkhanagpur,
Rangapara police station-limits, Sonitpur district.
|
October 24
|
Three
NDFB terrorists killed in an encounter with security forces in
Barnadi, Tamulpur police station-limits, Nalbari district.
Police
in Jorhat seize approximately 600 detonators onboard the Naginimora-bound
passenger bus coming from Dimapur, Nagaland.
|
October 25
|
NDFB’s
‘chief’ D R Nabla, in a statement in the online edition of its
mouthpiece Gwdan Mahari (New nation), terms the creation of Bodoland
Territorial Council (BTC) a non-pragmatic move.
|
October 26
|
Three
NDFB terrorists are killed in an encounter in Dongargaon, Assam’s
Darrang district.
|
October 27
|
NDFB
terrorists massacre 22 civilians after dragging them out of their
houses in Datgiri village, Kokrajhar district.
Suspected
ULFA terrorists throw mortar bombs in a high security area in
Dispur that houses State’s Ministers and many top bureaucrats.
|
November 5
|
Reports quote NDFB 'chief' Ranjan Daimary alias
D R Nabla as saying he would join talks if the Union government
includes in the agenda 'historical rights' and the 'right to self-determination'
of the Bodo people.
|
November 11
|
Suspected NDFB terrorists kill four BLT cadres
and injure two more at Kukurakata in Darrang district.
|
November 16
|
Reports say the Union government has, for six
months with effect from November 11, extended the applicability
of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 to the whole of Assam,
and the 20km-wide belt along the borders in Arunachal Pradesh,
Nagaland and Meghalaya..
|
November 20
|
Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami says
the government is committed to restoration of peace in the Northeast
and has offered talks within the ambit of Indian Constitution
with Northeast-based terrorist outfits.
|
November 21
|
State Police chief (Director General) H K Deka
says, in Guwahati, top-ULFA-leaders have lost control over the
rank and file and the latter indulge in extortion independent
of their leaders.
|
December 2
|
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in a memorandum submitted
to Prime Minister Vajpayee alleges that Bhutan was ‘cleverly relocating'
ULFA camps to evade pressure from the Indian government.
|
December 5
|
A report says NDFB 'secretary general' B. Swmkhwr
alias Gobinda Basumatary was taken to Delhi after he was arrested
onboard the Kamrup Express, at Rangiya railway station, on an
unspecified date.
|
December 12
|
ULFA-Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
alliance sets free Pradip Sarkar, son of a Member of the Legislative
Assembly, Chandan Sarkar, after nine months in captivity.
|
December 12
|
North Cachar Hills district Additional Superintendent
of Police (ASP) N R Seal succumbs to his injuries at Silchar Medical
College Hospital. DHD terrorists had ambushed his office in Haflong,
on December 9.
|
December 16
|
A meeting of State Legislators of all political
parties over Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) formation ends
inconclusively in Guwahati.
The Sanjoy Ghosh abduction-cum-murder case trial
indicting ULFA begins in Guwahati.
|
December 19
|
The BLT, Union government and Assam government
discuss, in New Delhi, the boundary of the proposed Bodoland Territorial
Council (BTC).
|
December 20
|
Three NDFB terrorists are killed in an encounter
with a joint team of Assam police and Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) personnel in Nalbaripam village, Barpeta district.
|
December 25
|
Suspected
ULFA terrorists throw five mortar bombs in quick succession in
Kalibari and Ambri areas of Guwahati killing two civilians, including
a five-year-old child. 16 more are injured in these incidents.
|
December 30
|
DHD, active
in Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts, announces unilateral
'suspension' of activities and 'cessation of hostilities' with
security forces (SFs) with effect from December 31, for a period
of six months.
Cease-fire
with Adivasi Cobra Militant Force (ACMF) extended for a period
of six months with effect from January 1, 2003 at a meeting between
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and ACMF representatives in Guwahati.
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