January 2
|
Karbi Longri North
Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) ‘general secretary’, H.S.
Timung, is reported to have resigned from his post and the primary
membership of the outfit, following serious differences of opinion
with the outfit’s ‘Commander-in-Chief’, W Timung.
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January 8
|
Troops of the Red
Horns Division kill a National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
terrorist, identified as Arush Basumatary, in an encounter at
Nabin Nagar forest village under Kachugaon police station limits
in the Kokrajhar district.
A surrendered ULFA
(SULFA) cadre, Ashok Das, is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists
in the Barama town of Nalbari district.
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January 9
|
Government of Assam
sends its emissary to the NDFB ‘chairman’, Ranjan Daimary, in
Bangladesh, for a list of the outfit’s representatives who are
expected to participate in the proposed peace talks with the Union
Government.
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January 11
|
14 civilians, including
a nine-year-old girl and four women, are injured when suspected
United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
terrorists trigger an explosion at the Marwaripatty area of Jorhat
town.
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January 12
|
Unidentified terrorists
kill a trader, identified as Satyadev Sahani, at Bura Burigaon
under Sadiya police station limits in the Tinsukia district.
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January 13
|
Suspected KLNLF terrorists
kill a 60-year-old woman at Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.
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January 15
|
An ULFA terrorist,
Ajit Deka, is killed in an encounter at Gandhibari village under
Tamulpur Police Station limits in the Nalbari district.
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January 19
|
One person is killed
and six others sustain injuries during a bomb blast triggered
by suspected ULFA terrorists at Boxirhat under Golokganj police
station in the Dhubri district.
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January 20
|
Suspected ULFA terrorists
detonate explosives targeting a power transmission tower located
at Cinnamara Toklai tea estate. Even though there was no report
of any casualty, power supply was disrupted as the tower collapsed
due to the explosion.
The ULFA along with
the Tripura People’s Democratic Front (TPDF), Kamtapur Liberation
Organisation (KLO)
and Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), in a joint statement
made available to the media, appeal to the people of the North-east
to boycott the Republic Day celebrations on January 26 and called
for a general strike on that day.
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January 24
|
Suspected ULFA terrorists
trigger a grenade blast at Ganesguri in the capital Guwahati injuring
seven persons.
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January 26
|
Ten police personnel
are wounded as suspected ULFA cadres detonate two explosions at
the Judges Field, venue of the Republic Day celebrations, in Guwahati.
Two civilians are
killed and twelve others sustain injuries as army personnel opened
fire on a mob after being attacked by the latter who mistook them
for dacoits near Sialmari village in the Nalbari district.
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January 31
|
Thirty four terrorists
of the ULFA and 23 National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
cadres surrender before the army authorities at Rangiya.
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February 3
|
An unidentified
NDFB terrorist is killed during an encounter with the security
force (SF) personnel at Manglajhara in the Dhubri district.
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February 10
|
An NDFB cadre, identified as Jhangkrithai
Narzary, is killed during an encounter with the police at Pankajuli
in the Sonitpur district.
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February 15
|
The ULFA seeks a formal reply to
its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa's letter from the Government
of India. This was communicated by the outfit to noted Assamese
litterateur, Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami. ULFA's first formal communication
addressed to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was handed over
to the National Security Adviser, M K Narayanan, by Dr Goswami.
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February 15
|
Three ULFA cadres
surrender before the Superintendent of Police in Jorhat district.
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February 18
|
Suspected Kuki militants
abduct three tribal youths, suspected to be linked to a Hmar militant
outfit, from Toulpui village in the North Cachar Hills district.
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February 20
|
Two women and a child
are wounded in a grenade explosion at Kakopathar Tiniali in the
Tinsukia district.
A cache of arms and
ammunition including eight rounds of live ammunition, one magazine
and some incriminating documents is recovered from the Communist
Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) office at Diphu in the Karbi
Anglong district.
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February 21
|
Five unidentified
terrorists are arrested from different parts of the Hailakandi
district.
Three KLNLF terrorists
are arrested from the Kakojan village and four 12 bore SBBLs,
a factory-made air gun, 12 live cartridges and 500 grams of explosives
recovered from their possession.
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February 22
|
Two NSCN-K cadres,
identified as Madan Kamei and Jintal Kamei, are arrested from
the Cachar district and a revolver and a foreign-made wireless
set is recovered from their possession.
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February 23
|
Willingson Timung,
the KLNLF ‘commander-in-chief’ is killed along with two other
cadres by cadres of his own outfit inside the Langlakso forest
area.
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February 24
|
The NSCN-K offers
to mediate between the Government of India and ULFA. Kitovi Zhimomi,
the outfit’s ‘Ato Kilonser’ (prime minister), tells the media:
"If our assistance is needed, we are ready to be the go-between
in peace talks for the larger good of the region."
Titanic Kathar alias
Kolom Sing Engti, ‘area commander’ of the KLNLF, is killed during
an encounter with the police at Dolamara in the Karbi Anglong
district.
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February 27
|
Ranjan Daimary, the
NDFB ‘chairman’, in an e-mail message to the local media in Guwahati,
sets a deadline of April 15 for the Union Government to respond
to the outfit’s unilateral cease-fire. He says, "The NDFB
is prepared either to talk to the government of India to resolve
the conflict democratically and peacefully or to continue our
armed struggle till we achieve our goal, which is freedom."
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February 28
|
Two ULFA terrorists,
including Suman Barua alias Ruby Bhuyan, editor of the outfit’s
mouthpiece Freedom and Chandan Borah, a bomb expert believed to
be trained in Pakistan, surrender before the Assam Police in Guwahati.
A surrendered ULFA
(SULFA) cadre, Lahon Baruah, is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists
at Barichowka under Patharighat police outpost in Darrang district.
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February 26
|
Three ULFA terrorists,
identified as ‘lance corporal of Sivasagar’ Amar Mili, Pallav
Kakoti alias Ban Moran and Nasang Rangpi, are killed in an encounter
with Army personnel at Kheroni Hatimura under Bordumsa police
station on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
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March 1
|
One person is killed
and seven others sustain injuries in a grenade attack by suspected
KLNLF terrorists at a market in the Lahorijan area of Karbi Anglong
district.
ULFA, through a statement
published in a local daily, asks the Larsen & Toubro firm,
engaged in the construction of a number of stadiums for the National
Games to be organised in the State in 2005, to quit Assam.
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March 2
|
The Dibrugarh district
police arrest two ULFA terrorists, Biren Gogoi and Naren Gogoi,
from Lengeri Bamunbari No. 2 village and recover two electronic
detonators from their possession.
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March 8
|
According to media
reports, the NDFB served extortion notes ranging from Rupees 20,000
to Rupees 2 lakh to at least 35 businessmen based in the Boxirhat
area of Dhubri district on February 27 and March 1.
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March 9
|
One police personnel
is killed and seven others sustain injuries as suspected ULFA
terrorists trigger several bomb explosions across the Bongaigaon,
Kamrup, Dhubri and Sivasagar districts.
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March 10
|
A NDFB terrorist
and five linkmen of the outfit are arrested at Gilabari, Mainaguri
and New Takam Tukum villages under Kachugaon police station in
the Kokrajhar district.
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March 11
|
One person is killed
and nine others are wounded as ULFA terrorists lob a grenade targeting
a police vehicle in front of the headquarters of the Congress
party in Guwahati city.
ULFA terrorists trigger
an explosion in front of a hotel near the Sivasagar police station
injuring 11 people.
Tinku Basumatary,
a NDFB terrorist, is killed during an encounter with the police
at Hasrasbari village in Kokrajhar district.
SF personnel neutralise
a ULFA transit camp sheltering six cadres of the outfit’s ‘27th
battalion’ at Tipilabasti along the Assam-Meghalaya border.
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March 12
|
Suspected ULFA terrorist,
Parag Das, is killed during an encounter with the police in the
Lokhra area of Guwahati city.
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March 14
|
Hiten Thakuria, a
ULFA terrorist, is killed in an encounter with the Army at Ghasbari
village in the Dhubri district.
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March 15
|
Two KLNLF terrorists,
including ‘area commander’ Lonki Teron, are killed in an encounter
with the police in Diphu town, headquarters of the Karbi Anglong
district.
Six people are injured
during an explosion suspected to have been triggered by the ULFA
at Bihpuria in the Lakhimpur district.
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March 16
|
A suspected ULFA
terrorist is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Misa Hatkhola
under Khairabari police station limits in the Darrang district.
Diganta Baruah alias Kesar Jyoti
Saikia, ‘second commander’ of the ULFA’s Enigma group and a bodyguard
of Paresh Baruah, are killed during an encounter at Nikhira village
under Khairabari police station in the Udalguri district.
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March 17
|
Minister of State
for Home, Rockybul Hussain, speaking in the Legislative Assembly,
says that the NDFB is yet to send its representatives for talks
with the Government for preparing the ground rules for a formal
cease-fire agreement.
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March 19
|
Six persons are injured
as KLNLF militants lob a grenade in the heart of Diphu town of
Karbi Anglong district.
Writer Indira Goswami,
speaking to Assam Tribune, says that the ULFA has asked for a
formal letter from the Government of India, clarifying its position
regarding an invitation for possible peace talks.
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March 23
|
The UPDS threatens
to take up arms again if the on-going talks between the outfit
and the Government fail to yield any result. Speaking on the sixth
‘foundation day’ in the forest area under Hamren subdivision in
Karbi Anglong district, the UPDS leadership blames the State Government’s
apathetic attitude towards the problems of the outfit for the
failure of talks.
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March 24
|
Police arrests three
ULFA terrorists from the residence of an advocate near the Assam
Engineering College in Guwahati.
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March 27
|
Four ULFA terrorists,
including hardcore cadre Khagen Boruah alias Rana Gohain, surrender
before the Sivasagar district police.
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March 28
|
The Karbi Students’
Association, during a meeting held at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong
district, opposes the demands of the NSCN-IM for a ‘greater Nagaland’.
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March 29
|
Security forces launch
a pre-emptive offensive against a group of 40 ULFA terrorists
believed to have set up a camp inside the Dibru-Saikhowa National
Park in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.
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March 30
|
The UPDS revokes
its threat to call off the cease-fire with the Government from
April 1, citing "outpouring of public sentiment on the peace
process."
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April 1
|
Two ULFA terrorists
are killed in an explosion at Kharbilpar village under Barama
police station in the Baska district.
ULFA carries out
several explosions in Guwahati, Dhemaji and Tinsukia targeting
security forces and oil pipelines and injure more than 15 persons.
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April 2
|
A ULFA cadre is killed
by the Guwahati City Police in an encounter at Panjabari-Bagharbori
Napara area under Dispur police station limits.
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April 3
|
The executive committee
meeting of the Assam Sahitya Sabha in Jorhat urges the ULFA to
come forward for negotiations in the greater interest of Assamese
society.
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April 4
|
Assam Government
announces extension of the general amnesty offer to cadres of
the ULFA, NDFB, UPDS and the DHD up to April 30 to "enable
them to surrender and join the mainstream."
12 organisations
representing the Dimasa tribe in the North Cachar Hills district
send a memorandum to the Union Home Ministry requesting necessary
steps in view of the attempts by the NSCN-IM to include the district
in the proposed ‘Nagalim’.
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April 5
|
The NDFB ‘area commander’,
B Binaicha, speaking to the Sentinel, expresses his resentment
over the continuous operations by the security forces against
the outfit, despite the move for finalising the ground rules for
negotiations with the Union Government.
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April 6
|
The UPDS expresses
dissatisfaction over the State Government’s extension of amnesty
and call for a surrender of arms.
KLNLF militants abduct
the proprietor of a tea estate at Bagori in the Nagaon district.
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April 7
|
ULFA 'chairman',
Arabinda Rajkhowa, in his ‘Foundation Day’ speech, says that talks
with the Indian Government without the issues of sovereignty and
freedom are not possible.
Speaking on the 68th
Foundation Day of the Assam Legislative Assembly in Guwahati,
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appeals to the ULFA to join the negotiation
process.
KRA militants abduct
a priest, Father P Matthew, from the 25 Mile area under Manja
outpost of Karbi Anglong district.
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April 10
|
Chief Minister Gogoi,
speaking in Guwahati, asks the ULFA to prove its popularity by
contesting elections.
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April 12
|
21 terrorists, including
16 ULFA and six NDFB cadres, surrender before the General Officer
Commanding of the 2 Mountain Division, at Laipuli in the Tinsukia
district.
20 local organisations
in the North Cachar Hills district organise a protest movement
against the inclusion of their district in the NSCN-IM’s proposed
‘Nagalim’.
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April 11
|
Black Widow militants
abduct Lakhyajoti Langthasa, an executive member of the North
Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council.
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April 15
|
NDFB extends cease-fire
with the Government for a period of six-months.
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April 18
|
Four ULFA terrorists
are arrested by the army personnel during two separate operations
in Baichara village and Jail Road area in the Nalbari district.
Chief Minister Tarun
Gogoi, speaking at the Chief Ministers Conference on Internal
Security and Law & Order in New Delhi, says that the ULFA
has re-established some of its bases in Bhutan, more than a year
after it was flushed out subsequent to a military operation in
that country.
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April 19
|
644 gelatin sticks
are recovered from the Cachar Express during two raids carried
out at the Silchar Railway Station and Haflong Station.
Police recovers four
rocket propellant guns and 501 bullets of the AK series rifles
from Tipolibasti along the Meghalaya border in the Karbi Anglong
district.
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April 20
|
Minister of State
for Home, S Raghupathy, says in Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament)
that the ULFA has been regrouping with the support of Bangladesh
and is also setting up camps in Myanmar.
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April 21
|
Suspected terrorists
belonging to the anti-talks faction of the DHD kill a villager
after setting fire to two houses in the Lanku Garu Basti area
under Umrangshu police station of the North Cachar Hills district.
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April 22
|
Two SULFA cadres
are beaten to death while attempting to extort money from a brick
kiln at Numaligarh in the Golaghat district.
ULFA ‘chairman’,
Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an e-mail message says that the outfit is
ready to give up arms and sit for talks in Dispur itself within
48 hours if the Indian Government agreed to hold talks on the
sovereignty issue.
The DHD chairman,
Dilip Nunisa, in an interview to Telegraph, accuses the Union
and State Governments of promoting a rival faction, the Black
Widow, to weaken the DHD’s struggle for a separate state.
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April 23
|
Assam Chief Minister
claims to have established direct contact with the ULFA. He says:
"We have been able to establish contact with the ULFA."
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April 24
|
ULFA ‘chairman’,
Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an interview to Sentinel, dismisses the
claims of the Chief Minister and says that the outfit has authorised
no one apart from writer Indira Goswami to mediate with the Government.
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April 24
|
Six ULFA cadres,
including a woman ‘sergeant major’, are arrested by the army personnel
at Sesupani in the Tinsukia district.
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April 26
|
Security forces kill
a NDFB terrorist at Jharbari in the Kokrajhar district.
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April 27
|
Two ULFA terrorists
are arrested by the army personnel from Baruabamungaon in the
Golaghat district.
A NDFB terrorist
is killed by the Army personnel at Silakabazar under Serfanguri
police station in the Kokrajhar district.
The Superintendent
of Police in Karbi Anglong district says that the DHD has been
using conduits from various tribal communities to carry out illegal
activities in the districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar
Hills.
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April 29
|
Seven guns, suspected
to belong to the MULTA, are recovered from Kajaikata Part-V village
under Bilasipara police station in the Dhubri district.
|
May 2
|
A KLNLF statement
says that ‘general secretary’ Horsing Timung and four other cadres
have been ‘executed’ by the outfit on April 29 at a camp in Bangladesh
for having killed the outfit’s ‘commander-in-chief’ Willingson
Timung in February 2005.
The UPDS, in a press
statement threatens armed action against the DHD for the latter’s
activities against the Karbi tribal population in the Karbi Anglong
and North Cachar Hills districts.
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May 5
|
NDFB president, Ranjan
Daimari, in an interview to Sentinel, says that his organization
would like the Union Government to appoint a ‘special envoy’ familiar
with the history of the Bodo people for the peace talks.
|
May 8
|
Army personnel kill
two ULFA cadres, identified as Ugra Barman and Uddipta Bharali,
at Dhanbil in the Nalbari district.
|
May 9
|
Three ULFA terrorists
are killed during an encounter with the Army at Kothalguri in
the Dibrugarh district.
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May 12
|
Paresh Baruah, the
ULFA 'commander-in-chief', says in an interview to Assam Tribune
that the outfit will prefer to hold talks with the Government
of India in Assam.
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May 13
|
Police in the Dhamaji
district, acting on the confession of an arrested ULFA terrorist,
recovers 1000 gelatin sticks from the house of a civilian in the
Cimen Chapori area.
Union Home Secretary,
V.K. Duggal, says in Guwahati that the Union Government would
respond to the NDFB’s cease-fire offer within a few weeks.
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May 14
|
Two ULFA cadres,
Debajit Amche and Palesh Malang, are arrested from the Rangfang
gaon area in Karbi Anglong district.
|
May 17
|
Three NSCN-IM cadres
are arrested from Ludhi Basti under Haflong police station in
the North Cachar Hills district along with 100 gelatine sticks,
30 rounds of .9 mm ammunition, one detonator and a number of extortion
notes.
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May 19
|
Mahak Tao Tao, town
commander of the NSCN-IM, is arrested from Longmang village in
the North Cachar Hills district along with some incriminating
documents.
ULFA ‘chairman’,
Arabinda Rajkhowa, requests the United States President, George
W. Bush, to remove the outfit from the list of designated terrorist
outfits. Rajkhowa, in a letter, also regretted bomb explosions
like the August 15, 2004-Dhemaji incident as tactical blunders.
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May 20
|
A security force
personnel is killed and four others sustain injuries during an
ambush by the ULFA at Borhat under Sonari subdivision in the Sibsagar
district.
Two railway personnel
are injured in two explosions on the railway tracks near Gossaigaon
in Kokrajhar district.
Two suspected ISI
agents are arrested from Maroi village in the Darrang district
on the charges of supplying arms to the ULFA. A revolver and three
rounds of ammunition are recovered from them.
|
May 21
|
A college teacher
and a freelance journalist are arrested from Bilasipara in the
Dhubri district and Panbazaar in Kamrup district respectively
for alleged links with the ULFA and involvement in several explosions
in Guwahati. Four grenades, 249 IED (Improvised Explosive Devices)
circuits, 44 battery connectors, 20 cables, letterheads of ULFA,
a digital camera and a mobile device recovered from them.
ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda
Rajkhowa, in a statement says that the outfit would not tolerate
atrocities on indigenous Assamese Muslims.
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May 23
|
Three persons, including
a security force personnel, are injured as suspected ULFA terrorists
trigger an IED explosion in the Noonmati locality of Guwahati
city.
|
May 25
|
A tripartite cease-fire
agreement, valid for a year beginning June 1, 2005, is signed
between the NDFB, Union Government and Government of Assam in
New Delhi.
Union Government
sends a formal letter to the ULFA ‘chairman’ through mediator
Indira Goswami inviting the outfit for peace talks.
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May 26
|
ULFA terrorists kill
a leader of the Congress party, Amrit Dutta, at the Dhekorgorah
Block office under Pulibor police station in Jorhat district.
Three SF personnel
are injured in an explosion triggered by the ULFA at Digboi-Pengeri
road in the Dibrugarh district.
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May 27
|
Three persons are
killed and three others sustain injuries in an ambush by the KLNLF
on a passenger vehicle at Silveta under Howraghat police station
in the Karbi Anglong district.
Explosion detonated
by ULFA cadres damages a wooden bridge at Maithong on the National
Highway No. 52, connecting the eastern parts of Assam and Arunachal
Pradesh.
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May 30
|
The ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’
Paresh Baruah demands release of four of the outfit’s leaders
before commencement of talks with the Union Government.
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June 3
|
The Border Security
Force (BSF) Inspector-General of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and
Nagaland region, S C Srivastava, discloses at a news conference
in Shillong that leaders of the ULFA are running seven hotels
in different locations in Bangladesh.
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June 4
|
Suspected ULFA terrorists
explode a bomb beneath a microwave tower at Gutanagar.
The Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi is reported to have said that his Government was ready
to give free passage to jailed ULFA ‘central executive’ members
and even consider freeing them.
|
June 5
|
Two ULFA terrorists
belonging to the outfit’s '28th battalion', identified as Apurba
Barua and Pawan Moran, are killed during an encounter with the
army personnel at Jokaichowkgaon in the Tinsukia district.
A Kuki National Front
(KNF) cadre is killed in an encounter at Khelmabasti in the North
Cachar Hills district.
|
June 7
|
14 terrorists belonging
to different militant outfits like the ULFA, KLNLF, DHD and KRA
surrender to the authorities at the Misa Army camp.
|
June 9
|
Assam Police arrests
an hotelier in the Guwahati city, Hemendra Dutta Choudhury, on
charges of money laundering for the ULFA.
|
June 14
|
Two suspected NSCN-K
cadres, undergoing treatment after being injured in a landmine
blast at Thosen subdivision in the Tamenglong district of Manipur,
are arrested from a private hospital in the Cachar district.
|
June 15
|
ULFA, in a press
statement, claims that the Indian Government does not want a solution
to the ‘India-Assam conflict’ and is continuing military operations
against the outfit. The press statement further says that the
outfit had agreed to the negotiations as the "Assamese people
wanted to know the result of the conflict."
The UPDS joint secretary
W Mukhrang, in a statement, claims, "The KLNLF is a spent
force which is engaged only in fratricidal killings."
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June 16
|
Four ULFA terrorists,
including three woman cadres, are killed in an encounter with
the police at Doloni village under Khowang Police Station in the
Dibrugarh district.
Ten ULFA cadres,
including ‘sergeant major’ Amit Chandra Mandal, surrender to the
Army in Dhubri along with some arms and ammunition.
Assam Governor, Lt
Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, in an interview to Press Trust of India,
opposes the release of ULFA terrorists before the start of the
dialogue process. He says, "All negotiations should be held
on terms set by the government and not on their terms."
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June 19
|
Four ULFA terrorists
and one SF personnel are killed during two encounters in the Nalbari
district.
|
June 20
|
Suspected ULFA terrorists
trigger a powerful explosion at the State Secretariat complex
in the capital Dispur.
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June 21
|
Assam Governor, Lt
Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, speaking in Shillong says, "The question
of release of the outfit’s leaders should be done away with. If
the ULFA thinks that they need a quorum for talks that can be
done with safe passage given to leaders from outside to come to
Assam."
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June 22
|
Two unidentified
ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the police at Jonai
in the Dhemaji district.
Mojammel Haque, a
ULFA 'commander', is arrested from a hideout at Baxirhat in the
Coochbehar district of West Bengal.
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June 23
|
DHD chairman Dilip
Nunisa says that the outfit is ready to compromise on its demand
of the integration of Dimasa-inhabited areas of Assam and Nagaland
"if Delhi accedes to the call for Dimaraji statehood."
|
June 24
|
A police officer,
Puna Gogoi, is killed by the ULFA at Talap Bazaar in the Tinsukia
district.
|
June 26
|
12 persons, including
six CRPF personnel, are injured in an IED explosion triggered
by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Nine Mile area of Guwahati
city. Two persons succumb to their injuries subsequently.
|
June 27
|
The NDFB 'general
secretary', Govinda Basumatary, in a press statement reiterates
the outfit’s demand for a ‘sovereign Bodo state’ and says the
principle and ideology of NDFB "is the liberation of Bodoland
and thereby the talks with the Indian government would be based
on the solid rock of our principle and ideology."
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June 29
|
Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi, speaking to the press in Guwahati, says that despite
a series of bomb explosions the Government would strive for a
peace process with the ULFA. He says, "Just because of some
incidents, we should not give up the hope. Efforts should continue
as long as possible."
|
June 30
|
A letter written
by the ULFA ‘chairman’ to the National Security Advisor is sent
to the Prime Minister’s Office.
|
July 1
|
The Adivasi Cobra
Force (ACF) extends
its unilateral cease-fire for a period of six months.
|
July 10
|
An ISI agent, identified
as Hanif Khan, is arrested from a hotel in the Guwahati city on
charges of selling classified documents related to the country’s
security to a foreign country.
|
July 11
|
ULFA 'commander-in-chief'
Paresh Baruah, in a letter to the Prime Minister, threatens to
‘reconsider’ the option of negotiating with the Government if
the dialogue process does not focus on sovereignty for the State.
The outfit further says that any dialogue process could begin
only after the release of 10 of its leaders currently held in
various jails in India, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
|
July 12
|
The Supreme Court
of India repeals the controversial Illegal
Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) [IM (DT)] Act. In a
verdict delivered by Justice G. P. Mathur, the Court says, "The
IM (DT) rules and tribunals are declared to be ultra vires
of the Constitution and are struck down."
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July 13
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Police in the Bashistha
locality of Guwahati city recovers three AK-47 rifles, a US carbine,
a Brazil-made pistol, and 500 rounds of ammunition from an abandoned
house near a temple at Nalapara.
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July 14
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Suspected ULFA terrorists
trigger an explosion targeting a passing security force vehicle
inside the Duramara Reserve Forest area under Pengeri Police Station
in Tinsukia district.
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July 18
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Guwahati city police arrests three
suspected ISI agents from various locations. Subsequently, four
ULFA linkmen are also arrested.
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July 20
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Cease-fire between the Union Government
and UPDS is extended for a year, up to July 31, 2006 following
an agreement signed at the Border Security Force (BSF) sector
headquarters at Patgaon in Guwahati.
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July 23
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Pallab Bora, 'area commander' of
the Minority Liberation Front, is arrested from the Kaki reserve
forest in Nagaon district.
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July 26
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Three ULFA cadres are killed and
another sustains injuries in an encounter with the Army personnel
between Jagun and Jairampur in the Sibsagar district.
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July 27
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A ULFA terrorist and one Army personnel
are killed in an encounter at the 12-Mile area inside Tinkupani
reserve forest under Lekhapani police station in the Tinsukia
district.
ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa,
in an e-mail to the media in Guwahati, asks the people of Assam
"to abdicate Indian politics and not to invite and listen to the
oratory of Indian politicians." He claims "even now lakhs of people
who love Assam are ready to dedicate themselves for the cause
of a sovereign Assam."
Operation Khamdo, launched
by the Army to target ULFA cadres hiding in the Wara reserve forest
area along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Tinsukia district,
is called off.
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July 31
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ULFA asks politicians from New Delhi
to keep away from campaigning in the Legislative Assembly elections
in early 2006. The outfit's chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an
e-mail statement to the local media says, "The practice of inviting
leaders of national parties to the state, as if they were leaders
from Assam, and listening to their speeches must be stopped immediately."
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July 31
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The North East Students
Organiation warns the Union Government against any move to reintroduce
laws protecting the interests of the Bangladeshi infiltrators.
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August 1
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ULFA
'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a statement, threatens to step
up violence unless New Delhi responds positively to its offer
for peace talks. "We cannot just sit tight with the hope of getting
a positive response from the government for holding peace talks.
We will intensify our armed struggle," he says.
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August 7
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Four persons are killed and 12 others
sustain injuries in an explosion detonated by the ULFA at a bus
stand at Boko in the Kamrup district.
ULFA carries out a series of explosions
targeting army installations, oil and gas pipelines, electric
and telephone exchanges in the Nalbari, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat,
Tinsukia and Lakhimpur districts.
The NDFB
'general secretary', B Swmkhwr alias Gobinda Basumatary, addressing
a meeting at Dinakuchi in the Darrang district says that Bodos
were independent in the past and want to remain sovereign. He
says, "The NDFB has declared a ceasefire but not ended their struggle
for sovereignty."
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August 9
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The 'helper' of a truck dies as suspected
KLNLF cadres ambush a convoy of six trucks plying from Hojai to
Diphu at the Desobai area under Howraghat police station in the
Karbi Anglong district.
An activist of the human rights
organisation, Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti, Benudhar Hazarika,
is arrested from Abhayapuri village under Borholla police station
in the Jorhat district for nexus with the ULFA.
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August 11
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Six ULFA collaborators are arrested
from the Charigaon and Koronga areas in Jorhat district.
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August 14
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Headman of Devidpur village in Merapani
area is killed by the Adivasi Cobra Force (ACF)
militants.
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August 16
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A civilian, identified as Salim,
is shot dead by ULFA
cadres at Khamti Mohang village under the Bordumsa Police Station
limits.
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August 17
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14 people sustain injuries in a grenade
attack by suspected KLNLF militants at Diphu town in the Karbi
Anglong district.
The Union Minister of State for Home
Affairs, S. Reghupathy, speaking in the Rajya Sabha says that
the Government has no specific report of the ULFA running hotels
and having bank accounts in Bangladesh.
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August 18
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Three KLNLF cadres are arrested from
Doboka in the Naogaon district along with an AK-56 rifle, an AK-47
rifle and two hand grenades.
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August 21
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Police in the Guwahati city recovers
420 detonators from the residence of a person identified as Abdul
Aziz in the Ganeshpara locality.
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August 22
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C. Bora, a doctor, and two nurses
are arrested from Rupaisiding in the Tinsukia district for alleged
nexus with the ULFA. The doctor confesses of having treated several
ULFA cadres.
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August 27
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One person was killed and 14 others,
including a police officer, are injured when ULFA cadres hurled
two grenades at a police party on the national highway at Changsari
in the Kamrup district.
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August 30
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Two ULFA terrorists shoot dead a
school-teacher, Sukleswar Medhi, in front of the Balitara High
School in Nalbari district. A ULFA terrorist is killed in the
subsequent army operation in the same area.
Army launches an anti-insurgency
operation in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest in Tinsukia district
in search of ULFA terrorists, Prabal Neog, Jiten Dutta and A.
Saikia of the '28th battalion'.
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August 31
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Robin Handique, 'Political Advisor'
of the ULFA, dies at Kanaklata Civil Hospital following kidney
failure.
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September 2
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Four KLNLF cadres, one cadre each
of the ULFA, NDFB and MULTA surrender before the army authorities
at Misa camp near Nagaon.
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September 8
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ULFA calls for a dawn-to-dusk general
strike in protest against "Government's negligence towards the
treatment of ULFA leader Robin Handique leading to his death."
ULFA announces a 10-member people's
consultative group headed by mediator Indira Goswami to enter
into a dialogue with the Union Government. The members are: journalists
Ajit Bhuyan, Hyder Hussain, Diganta Konwar; sports organizer Hiranya
Saikia; Dr Brojen Gogoi; engineer Mukul Mahanta, lawyer Arup Borbora;
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti adviser Lachit Bordoloi and Asom
Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad leader Dilip Patgiri.
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September 10
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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi rules
out the declaration of a unilateral cease-fire with the ULFA.
Speaking to the media in New Delhi, he says, "Cease-fire is always
two-way traffic, it cannot be one way."
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September 12
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Suspected KLNLF militants abduct
three employees of the Bhagwati tea estate, under Santipur police
station.
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September 14
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Eight persons are killed and several
others sustain injuries as suspected Kuki Revolutionary Army militants
open indiscriminate fire at Thekerajan village in the Karbi Anglong
district.
Members of the consultative group
formed by the ULFA threaten to pull out of the negotiation initiative
in the event of "unprovoked and unwarranted" army operations against
the militants.
ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa,
in a press statement, says 12 of the outfit's cadres have been
killed in the army operations in the Dibru-Saikhowa forests. Army
authorities, however, deny this.
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September 19
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a surrendered
NDFB cadre, Bishtu Basumatari, near Seventh Assam Police Battalion
headquarters at Tarai Bari in the Kokrajhar district.
Biju Chakravarti alias Shailen Sharma,
a senior ULFA cadre, was arrested along with his wife from a locality
near Amber Fort in Jaipur, capital city of Rajasthan.
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September 20
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Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukharjee,
speaking to the press in Dimapur, said that Army operations against
the ULFA would continue as there was no cease-fire with the proscribed
outfit. He said, "How can you do that when we do not have any
ceasefire in place?"
The Army, during its ongoing operations
in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest, killed a ULFA 'battalion
commander', Achintya Saikia, and one of his woman associates in
an encounter near Ajuka village.
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September 22
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Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee
tells the media at 21 Mountain Division Headquarters of the Army
at Rangiya in Assam that ground rules had to be framed before
any kind of peace negotiation between the ULFA and Union Government.
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September 23
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A ULFA cadre, identified as Azad
Barua alias Swadhin Ray, is arrested from a flat in the South
24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
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September 24
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Suspected KLNLF militants attack
the Bagori police outpost near Jakhalabanda in the Nagaon district.
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September 26
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Two ULFA terrorists, Nilim Kumar
and Hiren Dohotia, are killed by the Army at Dibru-Saikhowa in
the Tinsukia district.
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September 27
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Army calls off its month-long operation
in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest of Tinsukia district. An
Army spokesperson states in Guwahati that the forest area was
"cleared of all ultras" and the task given to the troops has been
accomplished.
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September 28
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Three persons are injured in an explosion
triggered by unidentified terrorists in front of a para-military
camp at Rani in the Kamrup district.
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September 29
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The ULFA sends a formal letter informing
the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of the formation of the People's
Consultative Group (PCG).
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October 1
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ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom,
says that it would not start any negotiations with the Government
till the time Army operations against the outfit are completely
stopped.
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October 2
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Five members of a family are killed
by unidentified militants at Hemari Terang village under Diphu
police station in the Karbi Anglong district.
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October 3
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Two persons are injured in two bomb
blasts at Alagzar in the Baksa district and Barzar in Nalbari
district.
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October 7
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A ULFA cadre, Dulu Sonowal, is shot
dead during an encounter with the SFs at Jokai Sohikota Tepuguri
village in the Dibrugarh district.
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October 8
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Suspected militants enter the Karbi-dominated
Borsing Bey village, seven km away from Diphu, and kill five Karbi
villagers, including a two-year old child, and set ablaze more
than 60 huts.
Two civilians are killed in a cross-fire
between the police and Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front
militants.
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October 9
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Six persons from the Bura Fanchu
and Longsing Engti villages are killed and hundreds of houses
are set ablaze by unidentified terrorists in separate incidents
under Diphu and Bokajan police stations in the Karbi Anglong district.
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October 10
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Six persons are killed
in the continuing ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district. A
group of 100 to 150 armed persons enter the Kheroni village, inhabited
by the Dimasa tribe, and open indiscriminate fire killing six
persons on the spot. Nearly 60 houses also set ablaze by the miscreants.
Assam Government
announces an inquiry headed by Justice (retired) P. C. Phukan
to probe into the ethnic killings in Karbi Anglong district.
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October 16
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Assam Police recovers
four dead bodies from the Hojaipur, Doldoli and Dhansiri areas
of Karbi Anglong district. Unidentified militants set ablaze 200
abandoned houses in the same area.
One person is killed
and four others are injured in an explosion in front of the Barama
police station in Nalbari district.
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October 17
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Suspected Dimasa
militants waylay two passenger buses travelling from Zirikinding
at Charchim under Kheroni police station in Karbi Anglong district
and kill 23 persons, including nine women, belonging to the Karbi
tribe.
The same group of
armed militants later kill seven persons in the nearby Sarsing
village and five more persons in Prseck village.
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October 18
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Seven persons are
killed in the continuing ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district.
Six bodies are recovered from the Doyangmukh area while another
was recovered from Borlangphar Tisso village under Diphu police
station.
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October 21
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Suspected DHD militants
kill nine UPDS cadres at Tamulbari under Diphu police station
in the Karbi Anglong district.
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October 23
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Security forces arrest
five armed DHD cadres from Umrangshu Bazaar in the North Cachar
Hills district.
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October 24
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Suspected ULFA terrorists
kill a hotel employee, Pramode Singh, at Khowang in the Dibrugarh
district for non-payment of extortion money.
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October 25
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Two ULFA terrorists,
Chand Barman alias Ritesh Saud and Surat Deka alias Rupjyoti,
are killed during an operation by the police at Mowamari Chapori
in the Darrang district.
Security forces arrest
Nripen Sarma, chairperson of a women’s organisation Lovita, along
with two other members from the organization’s office at Chayygaon
in the Kamrup district on charges of having a nexus with the ULFA.
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October 26
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A round of negotiations
between the Union Government and the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative
Group (PCG) is held in New Delhi.
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October 27
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The GOC-in-C, Eastern
Command, Lt Gen Arvind Sharma, speaking to the press in Kolkata
says that the Army would continue counter-insurgency operations
in Assam till a cease-fire is reached with the ULFA.
A ULFA cadre, ‘Lance
corporal’ Meena Bokolial alias Meena Gogoi of the outfit’s 28th
battalion and three other women cadres, Binita Hazarika, Monalisa
Moran and Khyanmanti Moran, are arrested by the Army at Dighalipathar
in the Philobari area of Tinsukia district.
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October 29
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The Assam Government
agrees to conduct a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into
the recent ethnic clashes between the Karbi and the Dimasa tribes
in the State.
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November 1
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The ULFA, in its
fortnightly newsletter Freedom, greets the PCG for starting
the peace process with the Centre and raising the matter of sovereignty
in the meeting.
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November 2
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Suspected
Karbi militants waylay a passenger bus at Sorsori, near the district
headquarter of Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district, and kill two
persons. |
November 4
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Two unidentified ULFA militants are
killed by the Army at Tekelipathar under Pengeri police station
in the Tinsukia district.
KLNLF calls a 10-hour general strike
in the Karbi Anglong district to protest against the "military
dominion perpetrated by the Indian colonial power upon the self
governing territories of the North-east, including Karbi Anglong
and NC Hills."
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November 6
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Three suspected
ULFA cadres, Buten Gogoi, Pradip Gohain and Divyajyoti Gohain, are
arrested from Rojabari under Chabua police station in the Dibrugarh
district. |
November 18 |
Two ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the Army at Medhipara
village under Bilasipara police station in Dhubri district.
A SULFA cadre, Parikhit Hazarika, abducted earlier by an unidentified
group on November 17, is found with stab injuries at the Digboi-Pengeri
road in the Tinsukia district. Hazarika succumbs to his injuries
at the district civil hospital.
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November 19
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17 civilian houses are set ablaze
by unidentified Karbi militants at Lower Mohandijua village under
Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.
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November 22
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Two Karbi civilians are killed by
Dimasa militants in the Kansing Timung village of Karbi Anglong
district.
The ‘organising secretary’ of MASS,
Phulen Tamuli, is arrested at Sarthebari in the Barpeta district.
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November 26
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One security force personnel is killed
by unidentified militants at Hatikhola in the North Cachar Hills
district.
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November 29
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Fifty Dimasa tribal houses are set
ablaze by unidentified militants at Gidingpur village in the Dhansiri
area of Karbi Anglong district.
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November 30
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Two dead bodies are recovered at
Hidimpur village in the Karbi Anglong district.
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December 1
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Two dead bodies are recovered near
Dillai outpost under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong
district.
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December 2
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Four civilians, including a two-month-old
infant, are killed by DHD militants at Sirkangnep village in the
Karbi Anglong district.
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December 3
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379 houses are set ablaze by DHD
militants in six villages of Mohendijua and Lunhnit areas in the
Karbi Anglong district.
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December 3
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One surrendered NDFB cadre is killed
by unidentified militants at Boro Nalbari in the Kokrajhar district.
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December 4
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Eight houses are set ablaze by unidentified
militants in Tumpreng Tisso village under Hamreng sub-division
in the Karbi Anglong district.
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December 5
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36 houses are set ablaze by unidentified
militants at Englongkiri Manasi village in the Borlangpher locality
of Karbi Anglong district.
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December 6
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Two unidentified militants of DHD’s
Jewel Garlossa faction are killed at Retzol near Haflong in the
NC Hills district.
Dead bodies of two civilians, missing
since December 2 and suspected to have been killed by militants,
are recovered from Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.
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December 7
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One civilian is killed by unidentified
militants at Deramukh village under Baithalangsu police station
in the Karbi Anglong district.
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December 13
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One village headman is killed by
unidentified militants at Manja in the Karbi Anglong district.
DHD announces cease-fire with the UPDS in the Karbi Anglong and
North Cachar Hills districts during Christmas festivities.
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December 14
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Minister of State for Home, S Reghupathy,
informs the Rajya Sabha that security forces have suspended counter-insurgency
operations against ULFA.
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December 15
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Ministry of Home and Defence deny
of any cease-fire with the ULFA.
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December 16
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SULFA cadre Manikut Kalita is killed
by the ULFA at Dipila Chowk about 18 kilometers away from Mangaldoi
town.
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December 20
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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
says in Guwahati that the State Government would be happy to provide
safe passage to the ULFA leadership if it wanted to hold direct
talks with the Centre.
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December 21
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Unidentified militants set ablaze
six houses at Milapur village along Diphu-Lumding road in the
Karbi Anglong district.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil
states in the Parliament that “Outside elements” are responsible
for the violence in northeast.
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December 22
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Police dismantles a bomb-making factory
of the ULFA at Pushpawan village under Merapani police station
in the Golaghat district.
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December 27
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Officer-in-charge of Nelli outpost
and a ULFA cadre were killed in an encounter at Durapani under
Jagiroad police station in the Morigaon district.
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December 28
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An unidentified militant is killed
at Kuludong in the Karbi Anglong district.
13 Dimasa houses are set ablaze by
a group of 80-armed militants in the Pub Silpota village under
Bokolia police outpost in the Karbi Anglong district.
Arms and ammunitions, including a
9mm pistol and seven rounds of bullets, along with 426 bottles
of liquor and currency notes belonging to several countries such
as the USA, Korea, Philippines, Nepal, Malaysia and Vietnam are
recovered by the CRPF personnel from three Naga youths in the
Dohmile Khuti area of Golaghat district.
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December 30
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SULFA cadre, Biren Neog, is killed
in police firing at Digboi in the Tinsukia district.
Ten NSCN-K militants are arrested
from the Maibong and Mahur areas of the North Cachar Hills district
along with an unspecified amount of arms, ammunition and documents.
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