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Incidents and Statements involving UPDS:
2000-2012
2012
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October 19: At least 423 cadres
of disbanded UPDS were given rehabilitation package in a grant distribution
ceremony at indoor stadium Diphu in Karbi Anglong District. UPDS
cadres were given a cheque of INR 150,000 financial package to rehabilitate
themselves.
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July 16: unidentified assailants
killed an ex-militant of UPDS, Munthi Senar, in his native village
Sermanthi under Khatkati Police Station in the same District.
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July 4: SFs arrested two persons
from Matipung and Rongmili of Diphu town on abduction charges. The
two persons, identified as Bransli Timung and Jenshing Rongpi. The
duo has been arrested based of the confessions of former UPDS militants,
who are still under police custody on charges of abducting the son
of a businessperson, Mahesh Varma.
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July 3: SFs recovered a bullet-riddled
body of a cadre belonging to disbanded UPDS militant formation from
Rengbohom Higher Secondary School playground in Karbi Anglong District.
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July 1: SFs arrested three former
UPDS cadres along with a car on charges of abduction from Borlangpher
area under Diphu Police Station.The trio was involved in the abduction
of Mahesh Varma, inhabitant of Longring Thipi locality under Howraghat
Police Station on June 9. SFs also recovered one pistol, two mobile
sets, one Mahindra Duro scooter and INR .783 million in cash from
them.
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May 15: A committee to review the
implementation of tripartite MoS, between UPDS, central and State
Government, has agreed to grant rehabilitation package to all 568
cadres of UPDS (which was earlier 324), who are present on the day
and had surrendered with arms on December 14, 2011. Further a tripartite
Committee headed by Joint Secretary (North East) in the MHA would
be formed. The committee is proposed to include officials drawn
from various Central Ministries, including DoNER, HRD, Health and
Family & Welfare, Culture, Environment and Forest, Planning Commission,
besides the Assam Government. Surjya Rongphar and Kang Jang Terang
would represent the UPDS in the committee.
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April 5: SFs arrested four people
in two separate incidents in Diphu (District) area, who were involved
in illegal supply of arms and money to KPLT militants. One incident
took place at Mentilla and another at near ASEB colony under Diphu
Police Station. The arrested persons from Mentilla were women cadres
of the disbanded UPDS group. The arrested former cadres were identified
as Rubina Teronpi,and Samphri Englengpi. One .9 MM pistols (Italian
Made) were recovered from them.
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January 12: UPDS has told UHM P.
Chidambaram that it's MoS with Central and State Government has
failed. UPDS 'chairman' Longsodar Senar wrote to Chidambaram saying,
"As the Assam government has wilfully refused to honour your solemn
commitment of 'neutral administration' till the election and "level
playing field" during the election, the now ex-UPDS leaders and
cadres can no longer be expected to hold on to a failed experiment."
2011
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December 14: All the 568 militants
of the UPDS, a Karbi militants group surrendered their arms at a
function held at Diphu in Karbi Anglong District.
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December 3: 29 militants of KLNLF,
including a 'Commandant Sergeant Major' and two women cadres, joined
the UPDS.
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November 29: During the interrogation
of 'foreign secretary' of KPLT Maniram Rongpi, collusion between
a section of UPDS militants and KPLT became known. Some of the UPDS
militants had helped KPLT militants in recent times to carry out
unlawful activities in Karbi Anglong District. Further, a source
said," Rongpi's interrogation has revealed that the KPLT is on a
recruitment spree in Karbi Anglong. He had confessed to having sent
16 young boys recruited from Baithalangso and Deopani areas of Karbi
Anglong district to Myanmar for arms training in October." source
also said that all the new recruits were below 20 years of age.
On the demand of UPDS for dissolution
of the existing KAAC and appointment of a neutral body until the elections,
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that the matter is to be resolved
by the State Government.
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November 25: UPDS formally signed
an accord with the Central and Assam Government.
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November 24: The Cabinet Committee
on Political Affairs has given its nod for signing an accord with
UPDS.
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November 22: UPDS will not abandon
the demand for a separate state even after signing the peace accord
scheduled for November 25 with Central Government. The peace accord
between UPDS and Central Government will lead to the creation of
KAATC.
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November 21: Peace accord between
the UPDS and the Central Government will be signed on November 25
in the presence of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in New Delhi.
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November 12: State Government postponed
KAAC Election. The decision ended the 10-day-long uncertainty that
shadowed the signing of an accord between the UPDS and the Central
Government.
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November 3: Assam Government has
formally announced the election schedule for the eleventh executive
committee of the KAADC. KAADC election will be held on December
12 and result would be announced within December 14. Further, the
UPDS held as "betrayal" the declaration of elections to the KAADC
UPDS 'General Secretary' Haren Sing Bey said, "The government has
betrayed us by announcing the elections before the agreement was
signed so that we cannot participate in the polls. It is a betrayal
by the government and it has mislead the people by holding the elections
before the end of the present KAADC's term. UPDS will return to
insurgency if we feel betrayed by the government".
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October 31: The stalemate between
the UPDS and the Central Government was resolved on October 31 with
both parties agreeing to the minute changes made by State Government
in the outfit's demands. Surjya Rongphar, joint secretary (Home)
of UPDS said, "The talks were fruitful today. Now, we are only waiting
for the date of signing the memorandum of settlement (MoS). The
state government has made some small changes in our demands, which
are mainly related to financial matters. Earlier, the monitoring
of the finance for the hills district was only at the hands of the
Centre. Now it will be done jointly by the Centre and the state".
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October 24: In the face of a fresh
standoff with the UPDS, Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram has invited
Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi to join him to resolve the deadlock.
Notwithstanding Chief Minister, Tarun
Gogoi optimism over the possibility of the Government sealing a deal
with UPDS soon, the deadlock continues with the outfit sticking to
their demand on setting up a neutral autonomous council ahead of the
polls. The Chief Minister, however, appeared non-committal, when asked
about the demand for dismissal of the KAAC. "I have to consult the
autonomous district council, as the body is constituted under the
Sixth schedule of the Constitution," he said.
The non-Karbi organizations, comprising
different student bodies of Karbi Anglong District, have demanded
the Central, State government and the UPDS which is on ceasefire to
disclose the charter of demands publicly.
The non-Karbi organizations, comprising
different student bodies of Karbi Anglong District, have demanded
the Central, State government and the UPDS which is on ceasefire to
disclose the charter of demands publicly.
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October 22: In the face of a fresh
standoff with the UPDS, Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram has invited
Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi to join him on October 24 to resolve
the deadlock.
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October 21: UPDS said that it would
not sign the proposed tri-partite agreement with the Central and
Assam Government scheduled for October 24 unless the 'agreed formula'
was ensured. In an emailed statement, the UPDS said that the 'formula'
consisted of setting up of a neutral administration of the KAAC
in the period between the signing of the peace accord and the holding
of the next election.
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October 15: A memorandum of settlement
would also be signed with the UPDS, another militant outfit of the
state, on October 24 in New Delhi.
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October 13: Shambhu Singh said
that the Government of India is planning to sign peace pacts with
at least three militant outfits of the State by November. He said
that the process of talks with the UPDS is complete and only the
date for signing of the accord is to be decided. He pointed out
that the Government was trying to make the KLNLF to sign the same
pact, which delayed the process of signing of the pact with the
UPDS. But the KLNLF could not make up its mind and the Government
would not go ahead with the signing of the accord with UPDS, he
added. He also said that talks with both factions of DHD-Jewel &
DHD-Nunisa are in final stage and accords with the outfits are likely
to be signed soon. On the progress of talks with the Pro-Talks faction
of NDFB-PTF, Singh said that the outfit is still sticking to its
demand for creation of a separate state and the Centre has already
made it clear that there is no possibility of division of Assam.
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September 25: Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi will decide time of the accord to be signed with UPDS.
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September 16: Explaining the stalemate
in talks between Union Government, Assam Government and KLNLF, 'Publicity
Secretary' of KLNLF, Rijak Dera said, "We will neither join the
UPDS nor oppose them in signing their peace accord with the government,
our position will be neutral, we were pressurized by the Government
to sign the accord and forced us to accept their wish and the three-hour-long
meeting ended without any conclusion,". Rijak Dera further said,
"We met Home Minister P Chidambaram and apprised him the entire
development that took place in the meeting and after his intervention,
we were given two hours time to study the accord documents. The
accord will not fulfill the long cherished desire of the people
of Karbi Anglong."
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September 12: UPDS is likely to
sign a Peace-Agreement with the Central Government, in the presence
of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram by the month of September,
at Diphu in Karbi Anglong District.
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September 9: UPDS came down heavily
on KLNLF slamming the latter for what it described as "negative
role in the peace accord signing process".
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September 2: Chief Minister Tarun
Gogoi said that a meeting with Assam's ethnic militant group KLNLF
was scheduled for September 3 in Delhi. Union Home Ministry officials
will meet a three-member KLNLF team. He, however, made it clear
that there was no scope for negotiations on the KLNLF's demand for
a separate state. Stating that most of the militant outfits were
willing for peace talks, the Chief Minister said, "We want to sign
an agreement soon with the KLNLF and UPDS." The BW group has already
come forward though we have differences with the Nunisa Faction
of DHD. But discussions are on with them."
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May 5: Centre extended the SoO agreement
with the UPDS for a period of six months with effect from May 5.
In a statement, UPDS joint secretary political affairs Wojaru Mukrang
said that through a mutual agreement with the Government of India
and Government of Assam SoO agreement was extended.
2010
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September
17: Sentinel reports that a new militant outfit has been
formed by the militants belonging to anti-talk faction of the KLNLF.
In a press communique, B. Ejang has announced the formation with
the name Karbi Anglong North Cchar Hills Liberation Front Anti Talks
(KLNLFA). The outfit in a press statement criticized the UPDS and
KLNLF for their failure to deliver its promised goal. He said that
the delaying tactic adopted by the Government to solve the vexed
issues raised by different organizations since 1986 has let down
the people in general and armed outfit in particular. The outfit
pledged to fight until their principle of Hemprek Kangthim (self-rule
homeland) is fulfilled.
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August 27: The People's Alliance
for Peace Agreement (PAPA) has held Parliamentarian Biren Sing Engti
responsible for the delay in finding a solution to the insurgency
issue in Karbi Anglong District. Addressing a press conference in
Guwahati, PAPA general secretary Elwin Teron said, "The [United
People's Democratic Solidarity] UPDS has been in ceasefire with
the Government for many years but the peace process with the outfit
has not progressed because of the interference by politicians like
Biren Sing Engti."
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August 25: The Union Minister said
that it is a matter of great satisfaction that a number of groups
are engaged in talks with the Government of India. Among them are
NSCN-IM, pro-talk faction of the NDFB, Nunisa faction of the Dima
Halim Daogah (DHD), Black Widow (BW), UPDS, Achik National Volunteer
Council (ANVC), Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front
(KLNLF), Kuki National Organization (KNO) and United Peoples Front
(UPF), he said. H further added, "We have appointed two Interlocutors:
RS Pandey to talk to the NSCN (IM) and PC Haldar to talk to NDFB
(PT), DHD (Nunisa), DHD (J), KLNLF, UPDS and ANVC, besides ULFA
[United Liberation Front of Asom]."
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August 22: Two
hardcore UPDS cadres were arrested by Bakalia Police from Mirdupathar
near Bakaliaghat Police Stationin Karbi Anglong District. According
to Police sources, the ceasefire UPDS cadres fled way from Rongcheret
designated camp set up under Hamren Subdivision since last two days.
They were identified as Mirjeng Engti (20) and Paprap Tisso (20).
Two AK-47 rifles, two magazines and 60 rounds of live ammunition
were recovered from their possession.
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August 3: The Union Government extended
cease-fire with the UPDS for six months till December 31, an official
spokesman of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced in New
Delhi. Tripartite talks on the demands of UPDS are continuing, added
the spokesman. The Centre had appointed former Intelligence Bureau
chief P. C. Haldar as its interlocutor for talks with UPDS as well
and currently he is engaged in discussing the political demands.
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June 23: The UPDS along with its
political partner ASDC and several non political organizations of
different communities that have inhabited the Karbi Anglong are
jointly campaigning in different places of the District for a long
lasting peace and immediate political solution of the UPDS's issue,
according to Sentinel. The UPDS is carrying out peace drive along
with its partner organizations in the banner of Peoples' Alliance
for Peace Agreement (PAPA) since past couple of months.
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April 12: The Assam Government has
to spend around INR 7.59 million a month for the 4,006 militant
cadres who have been staying in various designated camps in the
State. The militant outfits now in ceasefire and whose cadres are
in such camps are the UPDS, DHD, BW, NDFB, Adivasi Cobra Force (ACF),
Birsa Commando Force (BCF), KLNLF and the ULFA.
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March
28: The Assam Government will have to take the lead role in early
completion of talks with militant groups of the State, which already
signed cease-fire agreements for peaceful solution of the problems.
Sources said that the Union Government had a very limited role in
the process of talks with the militant groups like pro-talk faction
of the NDFB, UPDS, KLNLF, DHD and BW. Sources added that in case
of the militant groups of Assam, the Union Government had already
ruled out the possibility of division of Assam and asked the militant
groups to seek solution of the problems within the geographical
boundaries of the State.
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March
25: The Assam Government would constitute a ministerial committee
to make recommendations to the Union Government on the demands raised
by the UPDS during talks with the Union Government's interlocutor
P.C. Haldar. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Gogoi
had said to a delegation of the UPDS, which called on him on March
24, that the State Government would constitute a ministerial committee.
It will hold discussions with all the stakeholders, including political
parties, and make recommendations to the Union Government on the
demands of the Karbi outfit within two months, said the Mijnister.
He later added that the State Government was in favour of giving
maximum political autonomy to the Karbis without disintegrating
Assam.
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March 19: The UPDS
members, including ‘general secretary’ Sai Ding-Eh, left for New
Delhi to conduct meeting with P.C. Halder, Central Government Peace
Interlocutor. The five member team will be involved in three to
four days marathon discussion with Halder. The UPDS members will
further review its peace parlay with Naveen Varma, Joint Secretary,
in charge Northeast at his office.
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February 7: The Meghalaya Chief
Minister, D.D. Lapang asked the Centre to go for a tripartite political
and development accord with the Achik National Volunteer Council
(ANVC) to bring the ongoing peace process to a logical conclusion,
reports Shillong Times. He also stated that insurgent outfits like
ULFA, National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), NDFB and
UPDS are not only supporting groups like Liberation of Achik Elite
Force (LAEF), but also providing them arms, ammunition and training.
He said that insurgent outfits both from the Northeast and adjoining
Bangladesh were also using the peaceful State of Meghalaya both
as temporary sanctuary and corridor. Lapang further claimed that
both ANVC and Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) have
been largely neutralised with a sustained Police operation. But
passive militancy is still a cause for concern, he further added.
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February 4: The cease-fire pact
with the UPDS was extended for another six months up to July 7 following
discussion between the militant outfit, Centre and Assam Government.
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January 13: The top leadership of
the UPDS stated that uncertainty on the peace talks with the outfit
is likely to disappear by mid-February, the tentative date fixed
for holding the next round of parleys with the Centre. The UPDS
said that it would not ‘compromise’ on the four revised parameters
it had framed and placed before the Government of India to facilitate
signing of an accord with the Government aimed at ensuring permanent
peace in Karbi Anglong District.
2009
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December 1: The Peace
talks with militant groups like BW, UPDS and the pro-talk faction
of the NDFB are likely to be expedited as the Union Government’s
interlocutor for the peace talks, P.C. Haldar has started the process
and the Union Government is also reportedly keen on early solution
of the problems. Official sources said that Haldar, a former Director
of the IB, arrived in Guwahati to hold preliminary talks with the
militant outfits under cease-fire agreement with the Government.
Sources said that during the visit, Haldar would stay in the State
for at least four to five days and he would be holding preliminary
talks with the leaders of the outfits. Sources said that Haldar
would be visiting Haflong in North Cachar Hills District for talks
with the leaders of the BW followed by a visit to Diphu in Karbi
Anglong District for talks with the UPDS leadership. He will also
hold talks with the leaders of the pro-talk group leaders of the
NDFB. However, sources said that the present visit of the former
IB chief is only to hold preliminary talks with the outfits to know
their psychology and demands.
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November 15: The UPDS deposited
a large quantity of arms before the Assam Police at Deoyani designated
camp under Bokajan subdivision in Karbi Anglong District. The District
Superintendent of Police K.K. Sarma and SDPO C.K. Gogoi led the
Police team, while the UPDS team was led by its 'defence secretary'
Lengbat Engleng, 'joint secretary' Nanda Terang and 'finance secretary'
Dhon Rongpi. The militants deposited as many as nine AK-56 rifles
with 4,437 ammunition and 44 magazines, four AK-47 rifles, one AK-71
rifle, one SLR with 597 ammunition and one magazine, 319 ammunition
and one magazine of M-16 rifle, one 303 rifle with 3,825 ammunition
and one magazine, one US carbine with 29 ammunition and one magazine,
two sterling carbines with 408 ammunition and three magazines, one
M-21 rifle, two SBBL with 60 ammunition and 50 magazines, one 9
mm pistol with 452 ammunition and four magazines, two pistols, two
.32 pistols with three magazines, two 40 mm UBGL and 11 ammunition,
one rocket launcher with three shells and five LR grenade shells.
Talking to media persons, 'defence secretary' Lengbat Engleng requested
the Government to speed up the peace process for early solution
to the problems afflicting Karbi Anglong.
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October 20: A team of the UPDS led
by its ‘general secretary’ Haren Bey left for New Delhi for tripartite
talks involving the State Government and the Union Government. The
tripartite talks, seventh of its kind with the outfit, will be held
on October 22. The team also includes its ‘defence secretary’ Lengbong
Engleng and ‘finance secretary’ Dhan Rongpi. They said their demand
for a separate State, Hemprek-Khangphin, will come up for discussion
during the talks. They hoped that the dialogue will bear fruit and
that they will deposit arms only after the tripartite talks. While
arms of the UPDS designated camp at Diphu were deposited to the
Government, arms of two other designated camps — one at Deopani
and the other at Hemren — have not been laid down by the outfit
as yet.
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October 6: The UPDS cadres captured
four persons from Diphu in the Karbi Anglong District when they
were involved in an extortion drive in the guise of KLNLF cadres,
the UPDS 'defence secretary' Lengbat Engleng informed over phone.
A gun was also recovered from their possession, said Engleng.
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September 11: The UPDS, which is
in a cease-fire with the Government since 2002, agreed to surrender
all its arms. The breakthrough came during a joint monitoring group
meeting held to review the cease-fire ground rules, revised in early
2009. On August 12, 2009, the suspension of operation agreement
between the UPDS and the Union Government was extended for another
six months on the condition that they would abide by the revised
ground rules. An eight-member team of the UPDS, led by its 'joint
secretary', W. Mukrang, participated in the meeting held at the
Special Branch headquarters in Kahilipara. The Joint Secretary of
the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, (in charge of Northeast), Navin
Verma, State Principal Secretary (Home) S.C. Das, Additional Director-General
of Police (Special Branch) Khagen Sarma, senior officers of the
Army, CRPF, BSF, Special Brach, Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau and
the Superintendent of Police of Karbi Anglong District, K.K. Sharma,
represented the Government.
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August 12: The suspension of operation
agreement between the UPDS and the Government of India has been
extended for another six-month period up to January 31, 2010 at
a tripartite meeting among representatives of the militant outfit,
Union Government of India and the Assam Government held in New Delhi.
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June 23: SFs arrested two UPDS militants
from Taralangso under Diphu Police Station in Karbi Anglong District.
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March 30: According to Shillong
Times, one United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) militant,
identified as Kalwin Lyngdoh, surrendered before the Police at Khanduli
village in the Jaintia Hills District on March 30.
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February 3: The UPDS has rejected
the new cease-fire ground rules of the Union Government and decided
to move the Centre for its modification. The UPDS 'joint secretary'
in-charge of home and publicity, Tong Eh-Nongloda, said the central
executive of the outfit, in the two rounds of meeting held recently,
raised objections to the new clause that its members must surrender
their arms before signing the cease-fire.
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January 16: Shillong Times
reports that Assam's Karbi Anglong District based militant groups,
the UPDS, are carrying out extortion activities targeting the civilians
belonging to the Pnar tribe of Jaintia Hills residing under Block-I
area on the Meghalaya-Assam border. Several villages, including
Mooluber, Psiar, Moojem, Deinler, have been served with demand notes
ranging from INR 200 to INR 1000 per household depending on the
income of the family.
2008
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October 21: SFs arrested three KLNLF
militants and a UPDS militant at Rangapara village near Deupani
under Bokajan police station in central Assam's Karbi Anglong district.
One Chinese M-20 pistol with six rounds of live ammunition was recovered
from them.
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August 6: The cease-fire agreement
with the UPDS is extended by six months till January 31, 2009, after
a tripartite meeting among Union Government, Assam Government and
the militant outfit is held to review the functioning of the Suspension
of Operation arrangement and status of the agreed ground rules.
The UPDS asks to hold
the seventh round of tripartite peace talks with the Central and
Assam Governments in New Delhi on April 10.
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August 6: The cease-fire agreement
with the UPDS is extended by six months till January 31, 2009, after
a tripartite meeting among Union Government, Assam Government and
the militant outfit is held to review the functioning of the Suspension
of Operation arrangement and status of the agreed ground rules.
The UPDS asks to hold the seventh round of tripartite peace talks
with the Central and Assam Governments in New Delhi on April 10.
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April 11: Union Government rejected
the demand of the UPDS for a Karbi state in a meeting with six UPDS
leaders.
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April 6: The UPDS asks to hold the
seventh round of tripartite peace talks with the Central and Assam
Governments in New Delhi on April 10.
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February 20: The United People’s Democratic Solidarity
(UPDS) set two conditions for renewing the cease-fire that lapsed
on January 31, 2008. In a letter to the Joint Secretary (Northeast)
in the Union Home Ministry, the UPDS ‘foreign secretary’ Klirdap
Kathar said that they would sign a fresh cease-fire agreement only
if the Union Government agreed to hold a round of talks every three
months until a solution was reached. The second condition put by
the outfit is that its demand for self-rule be included in the terms
of reference of the proposed State Reorganisation Commission.
2007
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August 16: The Union Ministry of
Home Affairs stated that the truce has been extended with the UPDS
for another six months with effect from August 1, following a tripartite
meeting of the representatives of the Government of India, Assam
Government and the UPDS.
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August 13: The UPDS has charged
the ULFA of hatching a conspiracy with the KLNLF to start an ethnic
clash in the Karbi Anglong district by killing Hindi-speaking people.
UPDS publicity secretary Thung E. Nongloda said: "The ULFA has been
killing Hindi-speaking people in various parts of the State, and
now the outfit has started such killings in Karbi Anglong after
coming into an understanding with the KLNLF."
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July 19: Two unidentified UPDS cadres
are also arrested from Gautambasti in the Khatkhati area under Bokajan
police station.
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May 30: Four groups - the United
People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), Karbi Longri North Cachar
Liberation Front (KLNLF), DHD and Black Widow, reportedly have launched
widespread extortion drives in their respective strongholds in the
Karbi Anglong and North Cachar hill districts making the life of
common people, government staff and traders miserable.
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March 5: The Communist Party of
India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) cites a report stating that a section
of Congress party leaders had connived with the UPDS and Black Widow
militants in the abduction of its leader Laktook Phangcho, from
Chirilangshu village near Umrangshu in the North Cachar Hills district,
and his subsequent killing.
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March 2: The dead body of a CPI-ML
party leader, Laktook Phangcho, is recovered from a forest. Phangcho
was reportedly abducted by suspected UPDS militants from Chirilangshu
village near Umrangshu in the North Cachar Hills district on November
22, 2006.
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February 25: Intelligence sources
in Haflong, the headquarters of North Cachar Hills district, said
that the UPDS and DHD are silently expanding their area of operations
in both Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts, and the
February 8-abduction of a DHD militant, Ronald Hojai, who was on
his way from Dhansiri to Diphu, by UPDS militants could be fallout
of that rivalry.
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February 16: Meghalaya Home Minister
R.G. Lyngdoh refuses to negotiate with UPDS, and says that the issue
of 'disputed' Blocks-1 and II areas along Assam-Meghalaya border
will be resolved between the two State Governments.
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February 1: The NSCN-K said that
the outfit's 'makeshift' camp at Saijang in the Kohima district
was attacked by a combined force of the NSCN-IM, "PREPAK,
KYKL, KRA,
UPDS and DHD (Anti-talk
party)" numbering about 150 cadres. During the encounter, five militants
of the NSCN-IM are shot dead while two NSCN-K militants are killed
and one weapon is lost, said Anie Konyak, 'Under Secretary' of the
NSCN-K.
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January 31: Meghalya Chief Minister
J.D. Rymbai responds positively to the offer made by the Assam-based
UPDS for peace talks in the Block I and Block II areas along Assam-
Meghalaya border. The Chief Minister said that it was a positive
move on the part of the militant outfit to recognise the Khasi-Pnar
people as "sons of the soil of Karbi Anglong," which will help in
ending the reign of terror in these two areas since the last five
years.
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January 19: Five suspected UPDS
militants kill Kuthor Hanse, a senior leader of the Autonomous State
Demand Committee (ASDC), at his residence at Hidim Teron village
in the Karbi Anglong district. The militants also assault villagers
at Ramsing Terang and Dikoi Terang under Manja police station in
the district.
2006
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December 29: One UPDS militant,
Augustin Kramsa alias Longki Rongpi, is arrested by the Nagaland
Police in Dimapur. He along with three of his accomplices abducted
Robin, a trader and a civil society activist, from Mentila village
in the Karbi Anglong district on March 5, and later killed him on
the same day at Nahorjan. The abductors also demanded a ransom worth
INR one million for the release of Robin from his wife, Amphu Brahma,
before he was killed. One 7.65 US made pistol, two live bullets
and one vehicle were recovered from Augustin's possession.
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November 27: An encounter between
UPDS cadres and security forces occurs at Deohari village under
Hamren sub-division in the Karbi Anglong district.
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November 26: A suspected UPDS militant,
Rajib Tisso, is arrested from the Lahorijan area under Khatkhati
police station in the Karbi Anglong district. One AK-47 assault
rifle, one magazine and 30 live cartridges are recovered from his
possession.
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November 16: Assam Government is
working on a "special" economic package for the twin hill districts
of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills to convince groups such
as the UPDS and DHD to give up their demand for statehood and involve
themselves in planning and development of the backward districts.
"We are planning the package in such a way that it could be close
to the budgets of certain states whose territories are smaller than
the two districts combined. If we draw up an annual budget that
is more than that of these states or at least on a par, we see no
reason for its rejection by the militant leadership. The package
could be worth around Rs 500 crore," said an unnamed official.
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November 13: At least seven suspected
UPDS militants are arrested by security force personnel during a
counter-insurgency operation at Kaniya Bey village near Diphu in
the Karbi Anglong district, for violating cease-fire rules. Six
AK 56 rifles, 16 magazines, one 9 mm pistol, one revolver, a single-barrel
gun and 650 rounds of ammunition are recovered from their possession.
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October 24: The Khasi farmers at
Block-II areas in the Ri-Bhoi district allege that they are being
extorted by the KNV militants. According to these farmers, each
of them has to pay a "tax of INR 100 for each item (agricultural
produce) sold at Umlaper and Umwang market, while INR 50 and above
has to be paid for owning cultivable land in Block-II area." They
say, "We are fed up of continued harassment. We are helpless as
there is no one to provide security and we have no other place to
go," by adding that such illegal collection "goes on throughout
the year and aggravates during the harvesting season." The Khasi
farmers further mention, "One who expresses his inability to pay
the tax, the KNV militants threaten to take away the cultivable
land or the crops."
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October 23: The NDFB, DHD and UPDS
are involved in extortion activities, despite the fact that all
these outfits are under ceasefire agreement with the Union Government,
indicates media reports.
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October 22: A CPI-ML leader, Lantuk
Phangcho, is abducted by the UPDS from Umrangshu in the North Cachar
Hills.
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October 18: A civilian, Brarlil
Lawai, is assaulted by the KNV militants at Pampret village near
Sabuda under Block I in the Ri-Bhoi district along the Assam-Meghalaya
border.
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September 27: Two Karbi Longri North
Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants, ‘sergeant major’
Mangal Kiling and Hemmere Tiso, are arrested from a hideout at Kishanganj
village under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.
A cache of arms and explosives, including two AK 47 rifles, hand-grenade,
rocket launcher, one 9mm French-made pistol and 40 rounds of ammunition,
along with INR 5,000 is recovered from the incident site.
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September 26: Three employees of
a manufacturing enterprise, Vinay Cements Ltd, including its senior
manager, Ravi Shankar Thakur, are abducted by cadres belonging to
the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) from
a mining site near Umrangsu in the North Cachar Hills district.
Two junior employees, Prabir Kumar Das and Nahor Singh, are subsequently
released. However, involvement of Kuki militants in the abduction
incident is also suspected.
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September 11: The UPDS announces its
suspension of peace talks with the Union Government. However, the
outfit says it will continue with the cease-fire.
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September 7: A bus driver, Pradip Boro,
is shot dead and another, Babujan Hazarika, is abducted by militants
of the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF)
at Langthang under Samaguri police station in the Nagaon district.
According to police sources, two drivers were waiting near their
buses at Langthang Bazaar, when three cadres of the outfit demanded
ransom from them, and later attacked them on their refusal to pay.
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September 6: Suspected KLNLF militants
abduct a tea grower, Rajendra Singh, from Bogijan in the Golaghat
district.
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August 5: Two Karbi Longri National
Liberation Front (KLNLF) cadres are arrested from Silputa under
Bakulia police station in the Karbi Anglong district. They are identified
as William Kathar and Ranjit Teron. Several incriminating documents,
a diary and some arms and ammunition are recovered from their possession.
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July 5: Meghalaya Chief Minister J.D.
Rymbai accuses the UPDS, of violating the cease-fire rules by indulging
in unlawful activities along Assam-Meghalaya border. The outfit
had signed a cease-fire agreement with the Union Government on May
23, 2002.
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July 1: Several farmers of Mawlasnai
area in the Ri-Bhoi district, having their cultivable lands in the
Madan Umwang and Khlieh Umwang areas, are served with demand notes
by the UPDS cadres to pay ransom. The farmers were later asked by
the militants to attend a meeting at Madan Umwang, and are threatened
of dire consequences in case of failing to attend the meeting.
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June 28: Several civil society organisations
and chiefs of traditional local self-governance institutions, Rangbah
Shnongs, urge the Meghalaya Government to create some more police
outposts and deploy more police personnel to prevent the UPDS militants
from harassing Khasi-Pnar families in the Block-I and II areas of
Jaintia Hills district in Meghalaya.
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June 27: Suspected UPDS cadres attack
a police outpost at Khanduli in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.
While no casualty of police personnel is reported in the incident,
a civilian is wounded by the militants.
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June 25: Meghalaya Home Minister R.
G. Lyngdoh, while expressing concern in the State Legislative Assembly
over the reported threat of the UPDS in Jaintia Hills, says that
the Assam and Meghalaya Governments are committed to ensuring safety
and security of the people in the border area. "People living in
the border areas in Jaintia Hills have been meted out harassment
by the cadres of certain militant organizations," says the Home
Minister.
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June 23: The villagers of Moolaber,
Skap, Deinler, Saba, Myntang, Psiar, Lum Moojem, Khatkhasla, Mooshrot,
Mukroh and other adjoining villages near Labang-Nongphyllut in the
Jaintia Hills distict are extorted Rupees 200 each by the UPDS cadres.
The villagers are asked by the militants to stop cultivation and
farming in the area which, the militants claim, falls under ‘Karbi
land’. "The UPDS militants have recently called meetings in each
and every village of the area and asked the local residents to pay
a tax of Rs 200 for each household. Each village in the area has
a minimum of 140 households and thus the militants must have mopped
up at Rs 30,000 from each village," said LD Lakiang, the president
of a civil society organization, Joint Action Committee of Jaintia
Hills.
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June 21: Three unidentified UPDS cadres
are killed in an encounter with the police at Umkhyrmi in the Block
I area of Jaintia Hills district along the Meghalaya-Assam border.
One AK 56 rifle, two hand grenades, 68 rounds ammunition and one
camera were recovered from the encounter site.
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June 19: A huge cache of arms and explosives
is seized by the Jaintia Hills district police following an encounter
with at lest ten suspected UPDS militants and Karbi National Volunteers
at Umkhyrmi along the Assam-Meghalaya border. The cache include
one AK-47 rifle, one Chinese rifle, two Chinese hand grenades, three
magazines of AK-47 rifle, 68 rounds of live ammunition and one camera.
According to police sources, while all the militants managed to
escape from the encounter site, three of them sustained injuries.
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June 15: The Bokajan police recover
the dead body of a Karbi KLNLF cadre, Mirjeng Teron alias Bhupen
Teron, from an interior village in the Karbi Anglong district. According
to the Additional Superintendent of Police (headquarters) Atul Gogoi,
at least six UPDS militants abducted Mirjeng Teron from his residence
at Japarajan and later buried his body in the village after killing
him.
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June 10: At least 20 suspected UPDS
and Karbi National Volunteers militants enter a village and assault
two persons, Kedrik Phawa and Damon Lamare, near Wanpung under Block
1 in the Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya.
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May 10: Two KLNLF cadres, ‘corporal’
Kolam Sing Engti and Babu Ram Teron, surrender at Diphu, headquarters
of the Karbi Anglong district. They also deposit two 9 mm pistols
and four rounds of ammunition. According to sources, the KLNLF,
which has been set up in 1999 following the split in UPDS, has as
many as 60 cadres currently.
At least 20 suspected UPDS and Karbi National Volunteers militants
enter a village and assault two persons, Kedrik Phawa and Damon
Lamare, near Wanpung under Block 1 in the Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya.
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May 3: A combined team of the Assam
Police and the Nagaland Police arrests the ‘joint secretary (home)’
of the UPDS, Dhonsing Teron, from an unspecified location in Dimapur
town. Two vehicles are recovered from his possession.
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April 29: A pharmacist, Abdul Salem,
is abducted by militants from Tinglijan medical sub-centre under
Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district. District Superintendent
of Police Anurag Tankha informs, "Yesterday, we interrogated
an autonomous council member and arrested an UPDS (United People's
Democratic Solidarity) activist with the help of Dimapur police.
The findings of a preliminary investigation suggest the UPDS' involvement
in the kidnapping, but we are not ruling out the hand of the Karbi
Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front either."
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April 10: The UPDS 'defence secretary',
Thong Teron, is killed at Satgaon under the Dongkamokam police outpost
in the Karbi Anglong district by the security personnel of Sing
Teron, an executive member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council,
during an exchange of fire. Subsequently, the UPDS militants killed
two persons in retaliation in the Tongkory area of the district.
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March 31: A KLNLF cadre, Rongpi, who
surrendered along with three ULFA cadres before the army at Diphu
in the Karbi Anglong district, deposits one country-made revolver,
a grenade and some detonators.
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January 25: UPDS 'Publicity Secretary'
Tong-Eeh-Nongloda says that the outfit is hopeful of a fruitful
outcome from its fifth round of talks with the Union and the State
Government in New Delhi on January 31. Nongloda also blames the
State Government's lackadaisical attitude in fulfilling its demand
and says, "Therefore, the talks may not yield any good results."
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January 17: UPDS, active in the Karbi
Anglong district of Assam, decides to drop its main demand for an
autonomous state and instead settles for additional powers to the
existing autonomous council. The outfit's 'general secretary', Saiding
Eh, says that the new set of proposals, which include granting of
special financial, legal and political powers to the existing district
council, will be placed before the Union Government during the next
round of talks tentatively slated for the end of January 2006. "We
want more powers for the council," Eh says. He also says that the
outfit will also seek direct funding from all the ministries instead
of the money being routed through Assam Government and an end to
all interference of the State Government in the council's activities.
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January 9: Karbi Anglong district police
releases the UPDS 'publicity secretary', Tongeeh Nongloda, and two
other cadres who are arrested on charges of cease-fire violation.
However, the personal security officer for Nongloda, Langroiso Terang,
is still under detention.
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January 9: Police arrests UPDS 'publicity
secretary', Tongeeh Nongloda, from Dilai in the Karbi Anglong District
for reportedly carrying a 9mm pistol. Nongloda is detained at the
Bokajan police station. Commenting on the arrest, the outfit's 'joint
secretary' Ozaru Mukrang said that 20 members of the outfit are
allowed to carry arms after the cease-fire. "Later, we requested
the government to issue the order to four more cadres and the Special
Branch Headquarters gave the green signal for it, although the licenses
have not been issued as yet" Mukrang claims. He further added that
Nongloda is among the four persons "permitted" by the authorities
to carry arms.
2005
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December 26: UPDS asks the villagers
of Madan Umwang and other adjoining areas under Block-II near Sabuda
in the Ri-Bhoi district, not to harvest rice without paying 'annual
tax' to the outfit.
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December 23: UPDS denies carrying out
any extortion drive in Khasi villages in the bordering areas of
Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya and Karbi Anglong district in Assam.
The outfit's 'publicity secretary', Tungeh Nongloda, claimed, "Our
senior cadres went to the villages to carry out an investigation
regarding the matter and found that none of our cadres were resorted
to extortion as reported." Nongloda, however, disclosed that the
outfit collects Rupees 100 as "annual collection" from each house
in Karbi Anglong district. "Besides, we collect donation from ginger
planters and traders, but we don't coerce anybody", he added.
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December 21: UPDS says that the outfit
will not attend the Joint Monitoring Group meeting unless the nine
arrested UPDS cadres are released from police custody. The 'publicity
secretary' of the outfit Tong-Ehh Nongloda said, "Government is
adopting an irrational policy which will stymie the peace process."
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December 13: DHD announces a cease-fire
with the UPDS in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts
of Assam during Christmas festivities. DHD's military wing chief
Pranab Nunisa in an interview says that the outfit has extended
a hand of friendship to the Karbi outfit in view of the forthcoming
festive season. He further claims that his outfit is not involved
in the recent violent activities in the two districts.
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December 6: UPDS militants issue threats
to villagers in Mawlasnai and surrounding areas in Block-II bordering
the Ri-Bhoi district. In a letter issued to a villager, the outfit
asks a farmer to vacate his plot of land as it does not belong to
him.
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December 4: Unidentified militants
set ablaze 300 houses in different villages in and around Diphu
in the Karbi Anglong district. The State Government, meanwhile,
deploys army personnel in the district instructing them to "mount
an offensive on militant groups indulging in violence as well as
to enforce the ground rules of ceasefire." Chief Secretary S. Kabilan
says that operations under the Unified Command have already started
and shoot-at-sight orders have been issued against any person, other
than security force personnel, found wearing army uniform and carrying
arms. The UPDS and DHD cadres are asked to remain within their designated
camps, he added.
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December 1: Police arrests six cadres
of the Black Widow group led by Jewel Gorlosa along with UPDS militants
from a place near Bokolia under Howraghat police station in the
Karbi Anglong district. Currency notes amounting to Rupees 61,450
are recovered from their possession.
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October 21: In the continuing ethnic
clashes between Karbi and Dimasa tribals in Assam's Karbi Anglong
district, suspected DHD militants kill nine UPDS cadres at Tamulbari
under Diphu police station. A group of 12 UPDS militants is reported
to have set 12 houses ablaze in the Kakubasti and seven houses in
the Kishibam village. Subsequently, during their attempt to enter
Tamulbari village, DHD militants ambush the group and nine UPDS
cadres are killed on the spot.
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October 19: Assam Government says that
in the ethnic violence between the Karbis and Dimasas in Karbi Anglong
district, a total of 72 persons, including 60 Karbis, nine Dimasas
and two Nepalis have died and 1014 houses set ablaze since September
26. Government spokesperson Ripun Bora says that 50 relief camps
have been set up sheltering 22,469 people displaced from 43 villages.
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October 10: UPDS asks the Assam Government
to shift the designated DHD camp in the Dhansiri subdivision of
Karbi Anglong district, to North Cachar Hills.
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October 9: Six persons from the Bura
Fanchu and Longsing Engti villages are killed and hundreds of houses
are torched by unidentified terrorists in separate incidents on
under Diphu and Bokajan police stations in the Karbi Anglong district.
The other affected villages are identified as Monsing Ingti, Bura
Terang, Kangthar Kro, Norik Teron, Diliram Terang and Longso. N.
N. Goswami, Additional Superintendent of Police in Karbi Anglong
district, said the killings are a result of the clash of interests
between the UPDS and DHD.
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August 17: UPDS alleges that the KLNLF
is trying to stall the peace process between the Government and
the outfit. Accusing the KLNLF of involvement in the recent attacks
in Karbi Anglong district, the outfit's 'publicity secretary' Tungeh
Nongloda says that, "It was a handiwork of the KLNLF which cares
little about the life and welfare of the innocent people".
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July 20: The cease-fire between the
Union Government and UPDS is extended for a year, up to July 31,
2006. An agreement to this effect is signed at the BSF sector headquarters
at Patgaon in Guwahati by representatives of the UPDS, the Union
and Assam Governments.
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July 12: UPDS opposes the setting up
of a designated camp for NDFB cadres in the Karbi Anglong district.
The outfit's joint secretary Mukharng says: "We are not opposed
to any movement, but setting up of a designated camp in Karbi Anglong
will only pave a way for other NDFB cadres from Nagaland and Meghalaya
to take shelter in our areas."
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May 24: UPDS denies its involvement
in the killing of KLNLF 'general secretary', H S Timung. The UPDS
'publicity secretary' Tung-eh-Nongloda claims: "The accusations
by the KLNLF against us for the killing of Timung and his family
members are baseless and malicious and figment of their imagination."
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May 4: Three UPDS cadres are captured
by the residents of Kordoiguri village under Bokajan subdivision
in the Karbi Anglong district recently.
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April 4: Assam Government announces
the extension of the general amnesty offer to the cadres of the
ULFA, NDFB, UPDS and the DHD up to April 30 to "enable them to surrender
and join the mainstream."
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March 30: 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." Following
the appeal by three Karbi organisations, the UPDS 'publicity secretary',
Tong eh-Nongloda, says in Diphu, "They offered moral support to
our demand and promised to stand by us on the issue of political
negotiations. That is why we have decided to withdraw the March
31 deadline."
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March 23: The pro-talks faction of
the UPDS reportedly threatens to take up arms again if the on-going
talks between the UPDS and the Government failed to yield any result.
Observing the sixth 'foundation day' in the forest area under Hamren
subdivision in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, the UPDS leadership
blames the State Government's apathetic attitude towards the problems
of the UPDS for the failure of the talks. Reiterating its demand
for a separate State with Karbi Anglong and NC Hills districts,
the UPDS leadership alleges that though the Central Government and
the Union Home Ministry have asked the State Government to submit
the charter of demands of the UPDS, it is yet to submit it till
date.
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March 10: UPDS and KNV militants attack
and injure four persons in the Lamalong market at Mawhati in Ri-Bhoi
district.
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March 5: Suspected cadres of the UPDS
and KNV indulge in looting at Moolber in the Block-I area of Jaintia
Hills district of Meghalaya. They also reportedly decamp with a
rifle of a police personnel posted in the area.
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February 1: A joint team of the Karbi
Anglong Police and Army arrests a UPDS cadre, identified as Elwin
Rongphar, from Hatigarh near Bokajan in the Karbi Anglong district
of Assam on. One .9 mm pistol along with five rounds of live cartridges
and Rupees 2, 20,250 are recovered from his possession.
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January 19: The third round of tripartite
talks held between a five-member delegation of the UPDS, the officials
of MHA and Assam Government in New Delhi remains inconclusive, in
the wake of Assam Government seeking three months' time to table
the report of the State Cabinet Sub-Committee.
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January 18: Security force personnel
arrest two UPDS cadres belonging to its anti-talks faction from
Heidipi under Bokajan police station limits in the Karbi Anglong
district recently. Two SBBL guns, two AK-47 live rounds, two 7.65
mm live rounds and two fired SBBL cartridges, along with incriminating
documents are recovered from the duo.
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January 6: Police arrests four ULFA
and three UPDS cadres from an unspecified place in Assam.
2004
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December 31:
The Assam Police recover bodies of two persons, identified as Umesh
Mahato and Babul Biswas, suspected to have been shot dead by UPDS
terrorists for defying its ban on cutting bamboo from Silvetta in
the Karbi Anglong district.
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December 24:
Briefing newsmen at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district, the ‘general
secretary’ of the pro-talks faction of the UPDS, Saiding-Eh, threatens
to ‘drive out’ illegal Bangladeshi migrants who had come to the
twin districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills after being
evicted from neighbouring Nagaland.
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December 12:
The UPDS imposes a ban on bamboo trade in the twin districts of
Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts with effect from
December 12, cutting off the supply of raw materials to Hindustan
Paper Corporation Ltd’s (HPCL) Jagiroad mill in Morigaon district.
The outfit in a statement said that the HPCL would be permitted
to use the bamboo gloves in the twin hill districts again after
two years provided the company makes an effort to rejuvenate the
green cover within the period.
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December 9:
The UPDS accuses Union Government of violating the cease-fire ground
rules and threatens to take up arms. Its ‘publicity secretary’,
Tong-Eh-Nongloda, alleged that the security forces’ are still carrying
on counter insurgency operations against its cadres despite the
cease-fire agreement.
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November 30:
The KLNLF announces a weeklong campaign against the controversial
pact that was signed between Holiram Terang led faction of the Autonomous
Sate Demand Committee (ASDC) and the Kuki National Assembly (KNA)
that promises a separate ‘homeland’ to the minority Kuki tribe within
the Karbi Anglong district on December 4, 2000.
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November 30:
The KLNLF announces a weeklong campaign against the controversial
December 4, 2000 pact, signed between Holiram
Terang led faction of the Autonomous Sate Demand Committee (ASDC)
and the Kuki National Assembly (KNA) that promises a separate 'homeland'
to the minority Kuki tribe within the Karbi Anglong district.
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November 11: One person is killed and
four others injured in a grenade attack by the KLNLF terrorists
in Umrangsho in North Cachar Hills district.
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November 11: One person is killed and
four other injured in a grenade attack by KLNLF terrorists in Umrangsho
in North Cachar Hills district.
- November 7: UPDS threatens to launch
an ‘all-out operation’ to ‘root out’ KLNLF from the twin districts
of Karbi Anglong and NC Hills.
- November 5: A clash between KLNLF and
UPDS terrorists is reported from Tokopahar under Bokajan police station
in Karbi Anglong district.
- September 24: Suspected KLNLF terrorists
kill one person and injure two others at the Dalamara Tea Estate in
Karbi Anglong district allegedly for their refusal to pay extortion
money.
- August 13: UPDS terrorist, Deori Phangcho
and his accomplice, Bimal Phangcho, are lynched to death by a mob
at Bhaksong in Karbi Anglong district.
- August 11: The UPDS (pro-talks faction)
threatens to take up arms if the Government fails to protect the Karbi
people from Kuki militants.
- August 3: Six cadres of the KLNLF, including
a ‘commander’, surrender before Army authorities at Mariani in Jorhat
district.
- July 30: The Union Government extends
its cease-fire with the UPDS for another year up to July 31, 2005.
- July 6: UPDS (pro-talks faction),
in a press release, warns its breakaway faction to "return to
its fold or face its military strength."
- July 4: Suspected cadres of the
KLNLF kill a tribal youth and injure four other members of his family
at Doigrung village under Bokajan police station limits in Karbi Anglong
district.
- June 26: The KLNLF militants open fire
on an ambulance at Silbheta under Howraghat police station in Karbi
Anglong district. However, no casualty has been reported.
- June 5: Normal life in Karbi Anglong
district is paralysed as a result of a 72-hour general strike called
by the pro-talks faction of the UPDS in protest against the killing
of three of its cadres on May 30 by the army personnel.
- April 25: Six people, including a former
MLA, injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants of the UPDS-
anti talk faction at a crowd at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.
- March 29: One UPDS cadre is killed in
an encounter with the security forces at Ramtokbigaon under Howraghat
police station in Karbi Anglong district.
- March 19: UPDS cadres kill four Kukis
including a woman and a child at remote Thengbong village atop Singhason
Hills in the Karbi Anglong district.
- March 3: Security forces arrest three
women cadres of the UPDS-anti talk faction at Khomen Ingti Gaon under
Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.
- February 27: The anti-talk faction of
the UPDS in a statement issued by its general secretary, H E Kathar
agrees to initiate a dialogue with KRA if NSCN-IM ‘acts as the mediator
and guarantor’.
- February 21: Suspected UPDS cadres abduct
two tea executives from a private tea garden located within the Bokajan
police station limit of the Karbi Anglong district.
- January 21: Security personnel recover
dead bodies of two persons belonging to the Kuki tribe, suspected
to be killed by the militants of the anti-talks faction of the UPDS
at Kanjan, in Karbi Anglong district.
- January 20: Two villagers are injured
in an attack by UPDS terrorists at the Singhasan hill area in Karbi
Anglong district.
- January 17: The anti-talk faction of
the UPDS kill four woodcutters and injure another at the Rangadubi
reserve forest in the Karbi Anglong district.
- January 5: Suspected UPDS cadres attack
a ginger laden truck at Phuding in the Karbi Anglong district, killing
a Kuki tribal on the spot and injured another two.
2003
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December 24:
UPDS (anti-talks faction) welcomes the offer of peace talks proposed
by the KRA.
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December 12:
UPDS (anti-talks faction) rejects KRA's peace proposal.
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December 2:
UPDS (anti-talks faction) declares a movement against the Kukis
in Karbi Anglong.and North Kachar districts of Assam.
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November 17:
UPDS (anti-talks faction), in a press release, asks the KRA to release
eight abducted Karbi youths by December 1 and threatens to launch
'Operation Search' if the outfit fails to meet the deadline.
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November 14:
UPDS (pro-talks faction), in a press release, demands the KRA 'to
immediately hand over 13 Karbi hostages'. It also urges the anti-talks
faction to hand over three abducted Kukis from the Singhasan Hills
area.
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November 16:
Karbi Anglong district police recovers nine bullet-ridden bodies
of Kuki tribals, suspected to have been killed by UPDS terrorists
in the Singhasan Hills area.
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November 14: UPDS (Anti-Talks faction)
terrorists kill nine Kuki civilians and set ablaze 70 houses in
Gangjam village in Singhasan hills area of Karbi Anglong district.
- November 12: UPDS (Anti-Talks faction)
terrorists set ablaze five Kuki houses killing three children at Lenmol
village in the Diphu district.
- November 11: Suspected UPDS (Anti-Talks
faction) terrorists abduct and kill four Kuki students from Hidim
Teron village near Manja in the Karbi Anglong district.
- November 11: Suspected UPDS (Anti-Talks
faction) terrorists kill six Kuki civilians and set ablaze 70 houses
at Gangjam village in the Singhasan hills area of Karbi Anglong district.
- November 9: UPDS and KNV terrorists
kill a Khasi civilian at Deinler village in Block I area along the
Meghalaya-Assam boundary.
- November 4: UPDS and KNV terrorists
killed a Khasi civilian at Psiar village in Block I area along the
Meghalaya-Assam boundary.
- October 8: Suspected UPDS (Pro-Talks
faction) terrorists rape three schoolgirls, abduct five persons of
the Bodo tribe during a raid on two villages—Daldali and Kathalbari
near Diphu in Karbi Anglong district.
- October 6: Police arrest five pseudo
UPDS terrorists from the Hidipi Bazaar area in Karbi Anglong district.
- August 21: UPDS terrorists kill five
persons, including four women of the family of a migrant, at Manja
village in the Karbi Anglong district.
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July 26: Anti-talks faction of the
UPDS asks ‘aliens’ to quit Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills
districts.
Media reports indicate that the
Karbi Anglong North Cachar Hills Peoples’ Resistance (KNPR), armed
wing of the UPDS, planned strikes under ‘Operation Longri’ (homeland
safe guard) against security forces.
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July 24: UPDS terrorist killed in an
encounter at Longkiranghang in Karbi Anglong district.
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July 12: UPDS
terrorist is killed in an encounter at Langlakso, under Howraghat
police station limits in Karbi Anglong district.
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July 9: Six
persons are injured when suspected UPDS terrorists throw a hand
grenade near a Cinema hall in Diphu, the headquarters of Karbi Anglong
district.
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June 30: UPDS's
anti-talks faction drafts a manifesto and a map of its proposed
"Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills self-rule territory". UPDS'
camp destroyed and five cadres arrested at Denkek Langso in Karbi
Anglong district.
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June 27: One
UPDS terrorist of the anti-talks faction is killed during an encounter
at 19 Kilo, near Umrangchu in Assam's Karbi Anglong district.
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June 24: Leader
of the UPDS' anti talks faction HE Kathar offers to mediate between
the Dimasas and Hmars in Cachar and North Cachar Hills district
of Assam.
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June 14: UPDS
terrorists kill three persons and injure three more at village Langki
Ranghang Bihari Basti in Karbi Anglong district. Death toll later
rises to four.
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June 9: Police
in Bokajan, Karbi Anglong district recover dead body of a trader
from the forest area of Bhetagaon killed allegedly by UPDS terrorists
for not paying the extortion sum demanded by them.
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June 3: Report
says that the UPDS has issued death threats to the residents of
Mukroh and Saba villages in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills district over
the payment of a ransom of Rupees 500,000.
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April 27: UPDS
terrorists open fire on a Guwahati-bound moving train near Diphu
in the Karbi Anglong district injuring two passengers.
- April 25: UPDS begins its rail-road
blockade in Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts.
- March 13: A report indicates that the
UPDS has served extortion notices on the teaching staff of a local
school at Bokajan, Karbi Anglong district.
- March 7: A report indicates that the
UPDS has renewed its demand for the ‘self-determination’ of the Karbis
(a tribe) and other ‘indigenous people’ living in Karbi Anglong district
of Assam.
- February 18: A UPDS terrorist surrenders
in Bokakhat, Jorhat district.
- February 6: UPDS terrorists kill civilian
near Kramsagaon, Karbi Anglong.
- January 25: Four persons, including
a woman of a migrant family, killed by UPDS at Diphu, Karbi Anglong.
- January 20: Suspected UPDS terrorists
trigger bomb blast derailing Howrah-bound Kamrup Express train at
Diphu, Karbi Anglong.
- January 7: Karbi Anglong North Cachar
Hills People’s Resistance (KNPR), armed wing of UPDS, calls for boycott
of Republic Day celebrations.
- January 6: UPDS sets free three abducted
government employees in Karbi Anglong district.
- January 5: UPDS calls for seven-day
economic blockade commencing January 12 in certain areas of Karbi
Anglong and North Cachar Hill districts to protest alleged destruction
of forests by ginger cultivators.
2002
- December 19: UPDS terrorists abduct
three employees of the Agricultural Engineering Department at Katrijangaon,
under Diphu police station-limits in Assam's Karbi Anglong district.
- November 3: Five UPDS terrorists are
arrested from Silanijan, Borpathar police station-limits in Assam's
Karbi Anglong district, while trying to extort money from a local
businessman.
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October 28: Reports say two UPDS terrorists are arrested
by the security forces at a place under Bokajan police station-limits,
Karbi Anglong district, Assam
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September 25: UPDS might clash with
an unidentified group of approximately 70 Kuki terrorists in Karbi
Anglong, a media report from Assam indicates.
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August 22: UPDS 'commander-in-chief'
Long Kumar Kiling dies of injuries following a feline attack in
the forests of Karbi Anglong district, Assam.
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August 6: UPDS's Haren Bay faction
holds consultations with Union Home Ministry officials in New Delhi
to formulate the ground rules for a proposed cease-fire agreement.
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July 28: UPDS general secretary
Haren Singh says terms of cease-fire agreement with the Union government
would possibly come into force on August 1.
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July 3: UPDS is a threat to the Tiwa
community, allege various Tiwa organisations in a memorandum to
the Union government.
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June 23: Three UPDS terrorists killed in an encounter on Silanijan-Sokihola
Road, under Bokajan police station limits.
- May 28: UPDS chairman denies allegations
of extortion in Taradubi village, Baithalangso police station limits.
- May 23: UPDS general secretary Horensing
Bey signs ‘cease hostilities' agreement with the Union government,
for a period of one year, that is till year 2003.
- May 20: Suspected UPDS terrorists kill
four members of a non-Assamese family, including a 26-day old child,
at Matikhola village, Karbi Anglong district, and set ablaze five
houses in the vicinity.
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April 10: Suspected UPDS
terrorists abduct two Public Welfare Department (PWD) assistant
engineers in Umpanai, Karbi
Along.
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March 24: Two UPDS terrorists lynched by local residents in
Tardubi village, West Karbi Anglong
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March 19: UPDS terrorist
killed in an encounter at Ronghoghar village under Diphu
police station limits, Karbi Anglong .
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February 6 : UPDS terrorist’s
dead body found in Barpathar, Karbi Anglong.
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January 31 : Reports indicate that UPDS plans joint attacks
on security force personnel with the United Liberation Front of
Asom (ULFA) terrorist outfit.
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January 27: Suspected UPDS terrorists injure 12 persons in
a grenade attack at Diphu.
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January 23 : Unidentified terrorists kill the vice-chairman, Gandhiram Terang of
the UPDS at Gandhiram Terang in Karbi Anglong district.
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January 12: UPDS terrorists kill a person at Ram Chorang village,
under Bokajan police station limits.
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January 4: Two UPDS terrorists surrender to Nagaland governor
Shyamlal Datta at Kigwema near Kohima.
2001
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December 23: Suspected UPDS
terrorists kill a Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS)
leader at his residence in Rangmati.
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December 3: UPDS terrorists kill nine persons, including six
polling officials by triggering an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
explosion at Lamelangshu in Karbi Anglong. Five others were also
injured in the attack.
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November 24: UPDS camp at Chakihula Charikhuti in Karbi Anglong
destroyed by the security forces.
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September 21: Suspected UPDS
terrorist killed at Howraghat in Karbi Anglong.
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September 3: Two United People's Democratic Solidarity UPDS terrorists killed in an encounter at Upper Deopani in Karbi Anglong.
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August 25: Suspected UPDS terrorists kill four persons by blowing
up a truck at Bhuligaon, near Bokajan in Karbi Anglong district.
2000
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July 15: UPDS terrorists massacre 10 persons, including two women
and four children, in Langparpang, Karbi Anglong district.
Note:Compiled from news reports and
are provisional.
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