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January 10
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Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister
Tako Dabi asked for Assam Government’s help for conducting joint
counter-insurgency (CI) operations to flush out ULFA and NDFB
militants taking shelter in forests along the inter-State border.
Deputy Inspector-General of East
Range Tashi Lama said, "The substantial presence of Ulfa
cadres in East Siang, West Siang, Upper and Lower Dibang valley
districts besides movements of NDFB militants in belts of Papum
Pare and East Kameng districts have raised security concerns in
the state. We are trying our best to tackle the menace."
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January 17
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Assam Rifles personnel arrested
a NSCN-IM cadre, Jowang Wangha, from Longding in Tirap District.
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February 7
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A NSCN-K militant, identified
as Ponglem Wangpan (25), was arrested by the SFs, after an encounter
at Longding sub-divisional headquarters in Tirap District. One
Police officer was injured in the exchange of fire.
A NSCN-IM militant, ‘sergeant
major’ Ramchang, was arrested by the Assam Rifles personnel at
Khonsa in Tirap. He was a prime suspect in the killing of Wangcha
Rajkumar, former Parliamentarian of the Congress party, at Deomali
in Tirap in December 2007.
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March 29
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Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
would make an aerial survey of the India-Myanmar border along
Arunachal Pradesh on April 3, fuelling speculation that a joint
operation against Northeast militants based in the neighbouring
country is on the cards.
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March 31
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Twelve NSCN militants, including
a woman cadre, surrendered before the Assam Rifles at Khonsa in
Tirap District.
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April 2
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Union
Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that the Union Government had
resolved to tackle terrorism stringently and would not allow any
militant group to carry out subversive activities in the Northeast.
P. Chidambaram said that recommendations
of two panels on replacing the controversial Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act, in force in some Northeast States, with a more humane
law would soon be placed before the Cabinet. He said provisions
of the ceasefire agreement with NSCN factions in Nagaland did
not apply to militancy-affected Districts of Tirap and Changlang in
Arunachal and SFs would act, if militants from Nagaland and Assam were
found to be active there.
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April 4
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The Union Government decided to
launch a full-scale operation against both the factions of the
NSCN in Tirap and Changlang Districts of Arunachal Pradesh. This
decision was taken during the recent visit of the Union Home Minister
P. Chidambaram to Arunachal Pradesh.
Sources said that though Arunachal
Pradesh is a relatively peaceful State, activities of both factions
of the NSCN became a matter of serious concern.
Sources said that though the cadres
of ULFA and anti-talk faction of the NDFB also visit Tirap and
Changlang Districts from time to time, their activities have not
caused much concern as yet. "The ULFA and NDFB use the area
for tactical retreat whenever pressure is mounted on them in Assam and
though there were some reports of the members of the groups indulging
in extortions, they have not created much trouble in the area
so far. Moreover, the NSCN-IM, which is demanding inclusion
of the Districts in the ‘Greater Nagalim’, has a stake in
the area, which the ULFA and NDFB do not have," sources said.
Noklem Wansu, a hardcore
cadre of the NSCN-K operating in Longding sub-division
of Tirap District, was arrested by the Assam Rifles
from Longding market in Tirap District.
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April 11
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Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister
Tako Dabi said that there were definite intelligence inputs about
ethnic guerrillas of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) from adjoining
Myanmar infiltrating into the State’s Changlang District in recent
weeks. The Home Minister said the KIA controls large part of northern
Myanmar - a region where up to a half-a-dozen Indian separatist
groups from the restive Northeast have well entrenched bases under
KIA’s direct patronage.
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May 12
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Suspected NDFB militants abducted
an Indian Forest Service (IFS) official of the Maharashtra cadre,
V.S. Bardekar, from Daimara village in West Kameng District. He
was on a private visit to Arunachal Pradesh when he was abducted.
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May 14
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The anti-talks faction of the
NDFB owned up to having abducted V.S. Bardekar, an IFS official
from Pune, who was on a private visit to Arunachal Pradesh on
May 12.
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May 19
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Shillong Times
reports that one week after the senior IFS officer from Maharashtra
Vilas Bardekar was abducted by suspected NDFB militants from Daimara
Reserve forest areas in West Kameng District bordering Assam on
May 12, the Police of both the States of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
have remained clueless about whereabouts of the person.
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May 24
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Three NSCN-IM cadres were arrested
by Assam Rifles and Police, including self-styled ‘sergeant major’
Athot, and four linkmen in an operation at Khonsa in Tirap District.
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May 27
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A NDFB militant, Rahul Brahma,
one of the accused in the serial blasts on October 30, 2008, was
arrested by the CBI at Ziro in Lower Subansiri District.
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May 29
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Two National Socialist Council
of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) cadres were arrested in a joint
operation by a combined force of the CRPF, the Army and Deomali
Police in Tirap District.
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June 13
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A new outfit, Arunachal Naga Liberation
Front (ANLF), has emerged in the Tirap District in May 2010. The
NSCN-IM has already been active in the District. The NSCN-K also
brought in heavily-armed members of Myanmar-based outfit KIA to
gain an upper hand over its rival group in December 2009.
Confirming the launch of the ANLF
in the Paniduria area of Tirap in May, a Police source said that
the outfit was holding a training camp in the District under the
supervision of a self-styled ‘sergeant major’ who was a former
cadre of the NSCN-IM. Source said.
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June 14
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Two NSCN-K cadres were arrested
by troops during a search operation in the same Changlang District.
They were Myanmarese nationals.
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June 15
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Three extortionists, linked to
an unspecified militant outfit, were attested by the Assam Rifles
personnel in two separate search operations in Changlang District.
INR 8 00, 000 was recovered from the possession, who were carrying
the ransom to deliver to representative of an unspecified armed
group in Changlang.
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August 2
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At least 37 militants surrendered
before the Assam Rifles at Khonsa in Tirap District. They included
23 NSCN-K and seven each from the NSCN-IM and All Adivasi National
Liberation Army (AANLA).
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August 24
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Arunachal Pradesh denied any involvement
of militants in the ongoing impasse on the inter-State boundary
at Simhokho in Tirap District adjacent to Assam’s Sibsagar District.
Terming the entire episode as man made, Arunachal Home Minister
Tako Dabi claimed that the issue can be resolved at the lowest
level without involving the Government of both the States.
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September 4
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At least 109 militants of different
outfits surrendered in Arunachal Pradesh in the past eight years
along with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, Home Minister
Tako Dabi informed the State Legislative Assembly. Most of the
militants surrendered in Tirap and Changlang Districts before
the Army and Para Military Forces since 2003, he said.
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October 1
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The Union Government extended the "disturbed areas"
notification under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958,
for Tirap and Changlang Districts of Arunachal Pradesh for six
months. The decision was taken on basis of inputs that the NSCN-IM
and the NSCN-K are actively involved in anti-social activity.
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December 22
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Three militants belonging to the
NDFB-ATF were arrested from Bhalukpung in Arunachal Pradesh. They
were suspected to be involved in the killing of eight Hindi-speaking
persons in Boimara near Seijusa on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh
border on November 8, 2010. Three 9mm pistols with live ammunition
were recovered from them.
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December 27
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One cadre belonging to the NSCN-IM
was injured when about 110 cadres of the rival NSCN-K attacked
a post of the NSCN-IM in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.
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