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Incident |
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January 3
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The Achik National
Volunteer Council (ANVC)
accuses the Union Government of delaying discussion on its demand
for constitution of a separate Garoland Autonomous Council (GAC),
a self-governing body for the Garo Hills.
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January 4
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Superintendent of
Police of East Khasi Hills District Claudia Lyngwa denying the
reported revival of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
(HNLC) in Meghalaya
said, "One swallow doesn't make a summer….The outfit is down and
its dares to operate only in areas where the businessmen receiving
demand notes don't cooperate with the police out of fear."
The former HNLC 'chairman'
Julius Dorphang said that to use the surrendered militants was
not a right approach and instead he asked the Government to initiate
peace talks directly with the outfit. After the December 23, 2009
hit-and-run by the HNLC militants in East Khasi Hills, which left
a coal baron dead and his wife injured, Meghalaya Director General
of Police S.B. Kakati had suggested that the Police might ask
surrendered HNLC militants for their help to search for the hideouts.
The Police wanted to take the help of surrendered cadres to track
the militants who take shelter with Khasi villagers inside Bangladesh
after carrying out criminal activities in the State.
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January 11
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The Meghalaya Police
foils an attempt by a group of seven persons, led by two surrendered
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) cadres, to abduct
a trader for ransom in capital Shillong. According to Police sources,
the abduction plan was hatched in Assam in the last week of December
2009. Two of the arrestees are suspected by the Meghalaya Police
to be cadres belonging to anti-talk faction of the NDFB.
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| January 13 |
Meghalaya Police arrest the self-styled
'commander-in-chief' Shembhalang Dkhar and self-styled 'chairman'
Roy Kupar Marbaniang of a newly formed militant outfit Hynniewtrep
Liberation Front (HLF) from their respective residences at Demthring
and Madanriting localities in capital Shillong. They are arrested
after a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
militant Nickson Khang, who was arrested on January 10, revealed
the presence of two active militants of the outfit in the city.
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| January 15 |
Meghalaya Police decide to lodge
a complaint with the Union Government to rein in NSCN-IM cadres,
currently under cease-fire with the Centre, so that they do not
create any law and order problem in the State. In the wake of
the NSCN-IM's supporting a newly formed Khasi militant outfit,
Hynniewtrep Liberation Force, Additional Director-General of Police
B. Kezo said that the Naga militants would be considered criminals
in Meghalaya as there was no cease-fire with them in the State.
Meghalaya Chief Minister D.D. Lapang
rejects media reports that HNLC's top leaders, including the outfit's
'general secretary' Cheristerfield Thangkhiew and 'spokesperson'
Sainkupar Nongtraw, were about to surrender before the State Police.
There were reports that the two top HNLC leaders had managed to
escape from their base in Bangladesh to Meghalaya to surrender.
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| January 16 |
Two Liberation of Achik Elite Force
(LAEF) militants are killed in an encounter with Security Forces
(SFs) in Songsak area in East Garo Hills District bordering South
Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills Districts.
Assam Police arrest a ULFA militant,
identified as Pradip Kalita, from Woodland Hospital in capital
Shillong. Pradip Kalita is suspected to be a member of the '27th
battalion' of the ULFA.
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| January 17 |
Meghalaya Police arrest a HLF cadre,
Randall Nongrum, from Madanrting in East Khasi Hills District.
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| January 18 |
A Police team from Shillong arrests
one person suspected to be a cadre of the HLF from Mynso village
in Jaintia Hills District. Sources said that he along with one
of his friends had arrived in the village posing as construction
workers and were possibly intending to recruit more cadres for
the militant outfit. The arrested militants revealed that they
had links with NSCN-IM which was providing guidance to the HLF
outfit in mobilising cadres for training in Nagaland.
A HLF cadre, identified as Livingson
Khongsti alias 'Mike' alias 'Leesen', surrenders
before the Superintendent of Police of East Khasi Hills District.
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| January 23
|
A National Youth Award winner, Andreas
H. Marwein, was arrested by the Meghalaya Police in capital Shillong
for his linkage with the HNLC. Police said Marwein, who had received
the National Youth Award in 2009, was recently arrested for working
as an over ground worker of the militant outfit. According to
Police, Andreas had collected nearly INR 10 million over the last
five years for the HNLC and helped mobilize youths to join the
outfit.
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January 27
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The Meghalaya Police arrested
nine HNLC cadres, including an ‘area commander’ Alex Hahshah,
during a search operation at Parmodan village in West Khasi Hills
District.
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January 31
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A senior Police official said
that with coal business thriving in West Khasi Hills, the HNLC
is luring innocent young men to work for the militant outfit taking
advantage of the large scale unemployment and backwardness of
the District. The HNLC has gone on a massive recruitment drive
along the Meghalaya-Bangladesh border to meet the huge vacuum
in the organisation, he added.
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February 1
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One militant belonging to ‘28th
battalion’ of the ULFA surrendered before the Border Security
Force (BSF) in Shillong.
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February 3
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A senior Police officer said that
new HLF outfit, backed by the NSCN-IM, has been neutralised at
the nascent stage.
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February 7
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Meghalaya Chief Minister D.D.
Lapang in the Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security
asked the Centre to go for a tripartite political and development
accord with the ANVC to bring the ongoing peace process to a logical
conclusion. He also stated that insurgent outfits like ULFA, National
Socialist Council of Nagaland, NDFB and United People's Democratic
Solidarity (UPDS) are not only supporting groups like LAEF, but
also providing them arms, ammunition and training.
The former chairman of the HNLC,
Julius Dorphang, demanded a review of the rehabilitation package
for surrendered militants, saying there were many drawbacks in
the system.
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February 8
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Three suspected HNLC militants,
identified as Ribonlang Nongbri (21), Ekliar Nongbri (26) and
Thringstar Nongbri (35), were arrested by the Police from Lewduh
area in Shillong city.
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February 10
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Bangladesh High Commissioner to
India Tariq Ahmed Karim said in Shillong that Anup Chetia, ‘general
secretary’ of the ULFA, under detention in Bangladesh, after serving
a jail term, would be handed over to India soon. He further claimed
that there were no camps of Northeast militants in Bangladesh
at present.
A person was wounded when unidentified
militants hurled a petrol bomb at office of a vernacular Khasi
newspaper Nongsain Hima in Shillong city. The office building,
two computer sets and a scanner were damaged in the explosion.
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February 11
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Inspector General of BSF for Assam-Meghalaya
frontier Prithviraj said, ''Of course there are anti-India elements
in the BDR [Bangladesh Rifles] with specific agendas and many
at times they are the cause of trouble along the border and try
to harm friendly ties between the two nations.''
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| February
15 |
A cadre belonging to anti-talks faction
of the NDFB, identified as Godadhar Hajong, was arrested by the
Border Security Force from Debojani village in West Garo Hills
District along India-Bangladesh border.
A NDFB cadre, Doki Sangma, was also
arrested. Two cellular phones and several subscriber identity
module cards were recovered from his possession.
|
| February
23 |
The Union Government modified the
previous decision of indefinite cease-fire extension with the
ANVC to that of periodical extensions in a Joint Monitoring Group
(JMG) meeting at Tura.
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| February
24 |
The West Khasi Hills District Police
arrested a cadre of newly formed Nongstoin Red Army outfit, identified
as Kassol Blah (48). He sent a threatening note to Khlieh Mawlieh
village secretary Khroling Stone Blah.
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| February
25 |
A ULFA cadre was shot dead and another
cadre arrested when the SFs neutralised a hideout at Chachinat
village in East Garo Hills District.
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March 7
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A three-day conclave of the ANVC
concluded at Balonggre, in the outskirts of Tura town in West
Garo Hills District, to discuss ways to push forward the tripartite
peace talks.
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March 8
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The ANVC said that it would seek
a plebiscite on whether to continue with the tripartite peace
talks, after the Centre took an ‘arbitrary’ decision to extend
the cease-fire only periodically.
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March 11
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Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister
Mukul Sangma asked Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to initiate
all steps for peace and development of the Garo Hill Districts
for a logical conclusion of the tripartite accord with the ANVC.
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March 13
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The ANVC denied its involvement
in the abduction of a coal trader Nokma Chongrin Marak of Garo
Hills and instead accused the GNLA outfit of attempting to derail
the ongoing peace process.
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March 14
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The ANVC asked for holding the
peace talks at Tura in West Garo Hills District
instead of capital Shillong.
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