Assam Timeline - Year 1992

January 1	54 ULFA terrorists, including its Darrang unit secretary Arabinda Kalita, are arrested from an unspecified location in the State.
January 3	ULFA ‘foreign secretary’, Parthapratim Bora, involved in the killing of the nephew of Chief Minister Hiteshwar Saikia in 1991, is arrested from the South Sarania locality of Guwahati city.
January 7	Assam Chief Minister Hiteshwar Saikia along with three unidentified ULFA mediators meets Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao in New Delhi to discuss the modalities of the proposed negotiations.
January 9	Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, M M Jacob, rules out talks with the ULFA unless the outfit eschews violence and abides by the Constitution.
January 11	ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa rules out any dialogue with the Government till the army suspends ‘repression on people’.
January 11	At least 28 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different parts of Assam and a large number of arms and ammunition, including 22 Japanese made revolvers, 10 rounds of ammunitions and nine SBBL guns, are recovered from them.
January 12	Chief Minister Saikia says in Guwahati that the ULFA would finalise the modalities for the formal talks and indicate their proposals by February 1.
January 12	The first round of preliminary talks with a five-member ULFA delegation comprising ‘general secretary’ Anup Chetia and ‘central committee’ members Robin Neog, Kamal Bora, Siddhartha Phukan and Sabhan Saikia is held in the presence of the Prime Minister and Home Minister in New Delhi.
January 14	State Government suspends Operation Rhino; ULFA agrees to participate in a political dialogue with the Government.
January 31	Suspension of security force operations against ULFA is extended to facilitate the ‘general council’ meeting of the ULFA.
February 22	The two-day ‘general council’ meeting of the ULFA to deliberate on the proposed formal talks with the Government begins near Nagaon.
February 24	The ‘general council’ meeting of the ULFA is said to have arrived at a broad consensus to go ahead with the proposed talks with the Government.
February 28	Lakhi Saikia alias Abhay Kakoti, the ULFA’s Sonitpur district ‘publicity secretary’, is killed in an encounter with the Army at Jorabari in Sonitpur.
March 30	ULFA ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Paresh Baruah, in an interview with Sentinel says, "Those who are willing to negotiate with New Delhi are either RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] agents or are traitors."
March 31	18 front-raking ULFA cadres surrender at Dispur opting for a direct negotiation with the Government while defying the outfit’s leadership. They include Munin Nobis, Kalpajyoti Neog, Siddhartha Phukan, Amar Miri Handique and Ramesh Saikia.
April 1	Formal negotiations between the Government of Assam and ULFA on the modalities of arms surrender is held at the Janata Bhawan in Guwahati.
April 1	Chief Minister Saikia announces the deployment of Army in six districts against hardcore ULFA cadres opposing the peace negotiations.
April 1	Assam Police recovers a rifle, two SBBL guns, one DBBL gun, two grenades and 30 rounds of ammunition from the Sootea daily market in Sonitpur district.
April 1	ULFA top leadership expels from the outfit those engaged in a peace dialogue with the State Government.
April 2	Army personnel, during a search operation, recover a large quantity of arms and ammunition, including an AK-47 rifle, two carbine, two revolvers and 480 rounds of ammunition, from Dagaon in the Nagaon district.
April 2	40 ULFA cadres are arrested from various places in the State.
April 7	12 ULFA terrorists are arrested from different parts of Assam.
April 11	Seven security force personnel are killed and several others sustain injuries when a remote control bomb, planted by the ULFA, explodes under a bridge at Sonapur in the Nalbari district.
April 11	140 ULFA terrorists surrender at Nagaon. 43 ULFA cadres, including the outfit’s Misa Unit chief Gojendranath Sarma and the Secretary of Kaliabor Unit Lakhi Bora, surrender at Golaghat.
April 15	68 ULFA terrorists belonging to the Sibsagar unit, including its ‘district commander’ Jayanta Hazarika, surrender before the security forces at Ragghori in the Sibsagar district.
April 19	32 ULFA terrorists belonging to the Barpeta district unit surrender along with three DBBL and two SBBL guns at Barpeta.
April 20	148 ULFA terrorists, including seven women cadres, surrender before the district administration in Nagaon.
April 20	27 ULFA terrorists, led by the president of Behali unit, surrender at Tezpur. 21 ULFA cadres surrender before the district administration at Golaghat.
April 25	41 ULFA terrorists surrender at Goalpara.
April 28	202 ULFA terrorists surrender before the district administration in Tinsukia.
May 11	26 ULFA terrorists surrender at Sonitpur.
May 12	26 ULFA cadres surrender along with 16 grenades at Dibrugarh.
May 15	54 ULFA terrorists surrender along with 12 unspecified sophisticated weapons at Dibrugarh.
July 19	Terrorists belonging to the Bodo Security Force kill eight persons, including three women and three children, and injure several others at Golondihadi Sapkhachi in the Kokrajhar district.
July 27	Unidentified terrorists kill two persons at Tinsukia.
August 13	Three anti-talks ULFA cadres are arrested at Lakhimpur.
August 14	23 former ULFA cadres join the Congress party as primary members at Bilasipara in the Bongaigaon district.
August 16	Three ULFA cadres of the pro-talks faction are killed by the rival anti-talks faction at Bamunpara village in the Darrang district.
September 4	Bodo Security Force terrorists, in two separate incidents, kill five persons, including a woman, and injure several others as they open indiscriminate firing at Badhapara Chowk and Kukurakala villages in the Darrang district.
September 4	Bodo Security Force terrorists kill three Railway Protection Force personnel during an attack at the Sesapan station in Kokrajhar district and also loot three 303 rifles.
September 9	Bodo Security Force terrorists kill two Central Reserve Police Force personnel in an attack at Khasikala market under Sidli police station in the Bongaigaon district.
September 10	At least 30 persons, including four women and two children, are killed, and 50 others are injured in two powerful explosions, allegedly by Bodo Security Force terrorists, in two compartments of the Alipurduar-Rangapara passenger train between Patilashah and Sarbhog railway stations in the Kokrajhar district.
October 20	Bodo Security Force terrorists open indiscriminate firing and kill four persons at Jiranga in the Sonitpur district.
October 21	At least 43 persons are killed and 150 others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion inside a passenger bus at the Paltan Bazaar area of Guwahati city.
November 23	The Union Government proscribes Bodo Security Force with immediate effect.
November 24	Two ULFA terrorists are killed and a soldier is injured during an encounter at Dimoruholi in the Dibrugarh district
November 29	Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a leader of the Congress party, Achyut Kakati, and his Personal Security Officer at Dimoro Charalia in the Nagaon district.
December 7	21 technocrats of a French company, operating on the Oil India Limited (OIL) fields in upper Assam, leave the State following threats from the ULFA.
December 12	Bodo Security Force terrorists attack an Assam Police Battalion camp at Sarakhola near Kokrajhar and kill two police personnel. They decamp with 44 SLRs, five LMGs, three rifles and 900 rounds of ammunition.
December 13	Chief Minister Hiteshwar Saikia states that 2830 surrendered ULFA terrorists have been rehabilitated under different Government schemes.
December 21	Chief Minister Saikia announces in the State Legislative Assembly that between July 1991 and December 10, 1992, 202 persons were killed in 203 terrorism-related incidents. There were 35 cases of bomb blasts in which 83 persons lost their lives and 31 cases of abduction. 3206 ULFA terrorists surrendered during the period.