January 2

Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) ‘general secretary’, H.S. Timung, is reported to have resigned from his post and the primary membership of the outfit, following serious differences of opinion with the outfit’s ‘Commander-in-Chief’, W Timung.

January 8

Troops of the Red Horns Division kill a National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) terrorist, identified as Arush Basumatary, in an encounter at Nabin Nagar forest village under Kachugaon police station limits in the Kokrajhar district.

A surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre, Ashok Das, is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Barama town of Nalbari district.

January 9

Government of Assam sends its emissary to the NDFB ‘chairman’, Ranjan Daimary, in Bangladesh, for a list of the outfit’s representatives who are expected to participate in the proposed peace talks with the Union Government.

January 11

14 civilians, including a nine-year-old girl and four women, are injured when suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) terrorists trigger an explosion at the Marwaripatty area of Jorhat town.

January 12

Unidentified terrorists kill a trader, identified as Satyadev Sahani, at Bura Burigaon under Sadiya police station limits in the Tinsukia district.

January 13

Suspected KLNLF terrorists kill a 60-year-old woman at Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

January 15

An ULFA terrorist, Ajit Deka, is killed in an encounter at Gandhibari village under Tamulpur Police Station limits in the Nalbari district.

January 19

One person is killed and six others sustain injuries during a bomb blast triggered by suspected ULFA terrorists at Boxirhat under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district.

January 20

Suspected ULFA terrorists detonate explosives targeting a power transmission tower located at Cinnamara Toklai tea estate. Even though there was no report of any casualty, power supply was disrupted as the tower collapsed due to the explosion.

The ULFA along with the Tripura People’s Democratic Front (TPDF), Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), in a joint statement made available to the media, appeal to the people of the North-east to boycott the Republic Day celebrations on January 26 and called for a general strike on that day.

January 24

Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger a grenade blast at Ganesguri in the capital Guwahati injuring seven persons.

January 26

Ten police personnel are wounded as suspected ULFA cadres detonate two explosions at the Judges Field, venue of the Republic Day celebrations, in Guwahati.

Two civilians are killed and twelve others sustain injuries as army personnel opened fire on a mob after being attacked by the latter who mistook them for dacoits near Sialmari village in the Nalbari district.

January 31

Thirty four terrorists of the ULFA and 23 National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) cadres surrender before the army authorities at Rangiya.

February 3

An unidentified NDFB terrorist is killed during an encounter with the security force (SF) personnel at Manglajhara in the Dhubri district.

February 10

An NDFB cadre, identified as Jhangkrithai Narzary, is killed during an encounter with the police at Pankajuli in the Sonitpur district.

February 15

The ULFA seeks a formal reply to its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa's letter from the Government of India. This was communicated by the outfit to noted Assamese litterateur, Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami. ULFA's first formal communication addressed to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was handed over to the National Security Adviser, M K Narayanan, by Dr Goswami.

February 15

Three ULFA cadres surrender before the Superintendent of Police in Jorhat district.

February 18

Suspected Kuki militants abduct three tribal youths, suspected to be linked to a Hmar militant outfit, from Toulpui village in the North Cachar Hills district.

February 20

Two women and a child are wounded in a grenade explosion at Kakopathar Tiniali in the Tinsukia district.

A cache of arms and ammunition including eight rounds of live ammunition, one magazine and some incriminating documents is recovered from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) office at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.

February 21

Five unidentified terrorists are arrested from different parts of the Hailakandi district.

Three KLNLF terrorists are arrested from the Kakojan village and four 12 bore SBBLs, a factory-made air gun, 12 live cartridges and 500 grams of explosives recovered from their possession.

February 22

Two NSCN-K cadres, identified as Madan Kamei and Jintal Kamei, are arrested from the Cachar district and a revolver and a foreign-made wireless set is recovered from their possession.

February 23

Willingson Timung, the KLNLF ‘commander-in-chief’ is killed along with two other cadres by cadres of his own outfit inside the Langlakso forest area.

February 24

The NSCN-K offers to mediate between the Government of India and ULFA. Kitovi Zhimomi, the outfit’s ‘Ato Kilonser’ (prime minister), tells the media: "If our assistance is needed, we are ready to be the go-between in peace talks for the larger good of the region."

Titanic Kathar alias Kolom Sing Engti, ‘area commander’ of the KLNLF, is killed during an encounter with the police at Dolamara in the Karbi Anglong district.

February 27

Ranjan Daimary, the NDFB ‘chairman’, in an e-mail message to the local media in Guwahati, sets a deadline of April 15 for the Union Government to respond to the outfit’s unilateral cease-fire. He says, "The NDFB is prepared either to talk to the government of India to resolve the conflict democratically and peacefully or to continue our armed struggle till we achieve our goal, which is freedom."

February 28

Two ULFA terrorists, including Suman Barua alias Ruby Bhuyan, editor of the outfit’s mouthpiece Freedom and Chandan Borah, a bomb expert believed to be trained in Pakistan, surrender before the Assam Police in Guwahati.

A surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre, Lahon Baruah, is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists at Barichowka under Patharighat police outpost in Darrang district.

February 26

Three ULFA terrorists, identified as ‘lance corporal of Sivasagar’ Amar Mili, Pallav Kakoti alias Ban Moran and Nasang Rangpi, are killed in an encounter with Army personnel at Kheroni Hatimura under Bordumsa police station on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

March 1

One person is killed and seven others sustain injuries in a grenade attack by suspected KLNLF terrorists at a market in the Lahorijan area of Karbi Anglong district.

ULFA, through a statement published in a local daily, asks the Larsen & Toubro firm, engaged in the construction of a number of stadiums for the National Games to be organised in the State in 2005, to quit Assam.

March 2

The Dibrugarh district police arrest two ULFA terrorists, Biren Gogoi and Naren Gogoi, from Lengeri Bamunbari No. 2 village and recover two electronic detonators from their possession.

March 8

According to media reports, the NDFB served extortion notes ranging from Rupees 20,000 to Rupees 2 lakh to at least 35 businessmen based in the Boxirhat area of Dhubri district on February 27 and March 1.

March 9

One police personnel is killed and seven others sustain injuries as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger several bomb explosions across the Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Dhubri and Sivasagar districts.

March 10

A NDFB terrorist and five linkmen of the outfit are arrested at Gilabari, Mainaguri and New Takam Tukum villages under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.

March 11

One person is killed and nine others are wounded as ULFA terrorists lob a grenade targeting a police vehicle in front of the headquarters of the Congress party in Guwahati city.

ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion in front of a hotel near the Sivasagar police station injuring 11 people.

Tinku Basumatary, a NDFB terrorist, is killed during an encounter with the police at Hasrasbari village in Kokrajhar district.

SF personnel neutralise a ULFA transit camp sheltering six cadres of the outfit’s ‘27th battalion’ at Tipilabasti along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

March 12

Suspected ULFA terrorist, Parag Das, is killed during an encounter with the police in the Lokhra area of Guwahati city.

March 14

Hiten Thakuria, a ULFA terrorist, is killed in an encounter with the Army at Ghasbari village in the Dhubri district.

March 15

Two KLNLF terrorists, including ‘area commander’ Lonki Teron, are killed in an encounter with the police in Diphu town, headquarters of the Karbi Anglong district.

Six people are injured during an explosion suspected to have been triggered by the ULFA at Bihpuria in the Lakhimpur district.

March 16

A suspected ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Misa Hatkhola under Khairabari police station limits in the Darrang district.

Diganta Baruah alias Kesar Jyoti Saikia, ‘second commander’ of the ULFA’s Enigma group and a bodyguard of Paresh Baruah, are killed during an encounter at Nikhira village under Khairabari police station in the Udalguri district.

March 17

Minister of State for Home, Rockybul Hussain, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, says that the NDFB is yet to send its representatives for talks with the Government for preparing the ground rules for a formal cease-fire agreement.

March 19

Six persons are injured as KLNLF militants lob a grenade in the heart of Diphu town of Karbi Anglong district.

Writer Indira Goswami, speaking to Assam Tribune, says that the ULFA has asked for a formal letter from the Government of India, clarifying its position regarding an invitation for possible peace talks.

March 23

The UPDS threatens to take up arms again if the on-going talks between the outfit and the Government fail to yield any result. Speaking on the sixth ‘foundation day’ in the forest area under Hamren subdivision in Karbi Anglong district, the UPDS leadership blames the State Government’s apathetic attitude towards the problems of the outfit for the failure of talks.

March 24

Police arrests three ULFA terrorists from the residence of an advocate near the Assam Engineering College in Guwahati.

March 27

Four ULFA terrorists, including hardcore cadre Khagen Boruah alias Rana Gohain, surrender before the Sivasagar district police.

March 28

The Karbi Students’ Association, during a meeting held at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district, opposes the demands of the NSCN-IM for a ‘greater Nagaland’.

March 29

Security forces launch a pre-emptive offensive against a group of 40 ULFA terrorists believed to have set up a camp inside the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

March 30

The UPDS revokes its threat to call off the cease-fire with the Government from April 1, citing "outpouring of public sentiment on the peace process."

April 1

Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an explosion at Kharbilpar village under Barama police station in the Baska district.

ULFA carries out several explosions in Guwahati, Dhemaji and Tinsukia targeting security forces and oil pipelines and injure more than 15 persons.

April 2

A ULFA cadre is killed by the Guwahati City Police in an encounter at Panjabari-Bagharbori Napara area under Dispur police station limits.

April 3

The executive committee meeting of the Assam Sahitya Sabha in Jorhat urges the ULFA to come forward for negotiations in the greater interest of Assamese society.

April 4

Assam Government announces extension of the general amnesty offer to cadres of the ULFA, NDFB, UPDS and the DHD up to April 30 to "enable them to surrender and join the mainstream."

12 organisations representing the Dimasa tribe in the North Cachar Hills district send a memorandum to the Union Home Ministry requesting necessary steps in view of the attempts by the NSCN-IM to include the district in the proposed ‘Nagalim’.

April 5

The NDFB ‘area commander’, B Binaicha, speaking to the Sentinel, expresses his resentment over the continuous operations by the security forces against the outfit, despite the move for finalising the ground rules for negotiations with the Union Government.

April 6

The UPDS expresses dissatisfaction over the State Government’s extension of amnesty and call for a surrender of arms.

KLNLF militants abduct the proprietor of a tea estate at Bagori in the Nagaon district.

April 7

ULFA 'chairman', Arabinda Rajkhowa, in his ‘Foundation Day’ speech, says that talks with the Indian Government without the issues of sovereignty and freedom are not possible.

Speaking on the 68^th Foundation Day of the Assam Legislative Assembly in Guwahati, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appeals to the ULFA to join the negotiation process.

KRA militants abduct a priest, Father P Matthew, from the 25 Mile area under Manja outpost of Karbi Anglong district.

April 10

Chief Minister Gogoi, speaking in Guwahati, asks the ULFA to prove its popularity by contesting elections.

April 12

21 terrorists, including 16 ULFA and six NDFB cadres, surrender before the General Officer Commanding of the 2 Mountain Division, at Laipuli in the Tinsukia district.

20 local organisations in the North Cachar Hills district organise a protest movement against the inclusion of their district in the NSCN-IM’s proposed ‘Nagalim’.

April 11

Black Widow militants abduct Lakhyajoti Langthasa, an executive member of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council.

April 15

NDFB extends cease-fire with the Government for a period of six-months.

April 18

Four ULFA terrorists are arrested by the army personnel during two separate operations in Baichara village and Jail Road area in the Nalbari district.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, speaking at the Chief Ministers Conference on Internal Security and Law & Order in New Delhi, says that the ULFA has re-established some of its bases in Bhutan, more than a year after it was flushed out subsequent to a military operation in that country.

April 19

644 gelatin sticks are recovered from the Cachar Express during two raids carried out at the Silchar Railway Station and Haflong Station.

Police recovers four rocket propellant guns and 501 bullets of the AK series rifles from Tipolibasti along the Meghalaya border in the Karbi Anglong district.

April 20

Minister of State for Home, S Raghupathy, says in Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) that the ULFA has been regrouping with the support of Bangladesh and is also setting up camps in Myanmar.

April 21

Suspected terrorists belonging to the anti-talks faction of the DHD kill a villager after setting fire to two houses in the Lanku Garu Basti area under Umrangshu police station of the North Cachar Hills district.

April 22

Two SULFA cadres are beaten to death while attempting to extort money from a brick kiln at Numaligarh in the Golaghat district.

ULFA ‘chairman’, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an e-mail message says that the outfit is ready to give up arms and sit for talks in Dispur itself within 48 hours if the Indian Government agreed to hold talks on the sovereignty issue.

The DHD chairman, Dilip Nunisa, in an interview to Telegraph, accuses the Union and State Governments of promoting a rival faction, the Black Widow, to weaken the DHD’s struggle for a separate state.

April 23

Assam Chief Minister claims to have established direct contact with the ULFA. He says: "We have been able to establish contact with the ULFA."

April 24

ULFA ‘chairman’, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an interview to Sentinel, dismisses the claims of the Chief Minister and says that the outfit has authorised no one apart from writer Indira Goswami to mediate with the Government.

April 24

Six ULFA cadres, including a woman ‘sergeant major’, are arrested by the army personnel at Sesupani in the Tinsukia district.

April 26

Security forces kill a NDFB terrorist at Jharbari in the Kokrajhar district.

April 27

Two ULFA terrorists are arrested by the army personnel from Baruabamungaon in the Golaghat district.

A NDFB terrorist is killed by the Army personnel at Silakabazar under Serfanguri police station in the Kokrajhar district.

The Superintendent of Police in Karbi Anglong district says that the DHD has been using conduits from various tribal communities to carry out illegal activities in the districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills.

April 29

Seven guns, suspected to belong to the MULTA, are recovered from Kajaikata Part-V village under Bilasipara police station in the Dhubri district.

May 2

A KLNLF statement says that ‘general secretary’ Horsing Timung and four other cadres have been ‘executed’ by the outfit on April 29 at a camp in Bangladesh for having killed the outfit’s ‘commander-in-chief’ Willingson Timung in February 2005.

The UPDS, in a press statement threatens armed action against the DHD for the latter’s activities against the Karbi tribal population in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts.

May 5

NDFB president, Ranjan Daimari, in an interview to Sentinel, says that his organization would like the Union Government to appoint a ‘special envoy’ familiar with the history of the Bodo people for the peace talks.

May 8

Army personnel kill two ULFA cadres, identified as Ugra Barman and Uddipta Bharali, at Dhanbil in the Nalbari district.

May 9

Three ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter with the Army at Kothalguri in the Dibrugarh district.

May 12

Paresh Baruah, the ULFA 'commander-in-chief', says in an interview to Assam Tribune that the outfit will prefer to hold talks with the Government of India in Assam.

May 13

Police in the Dhamaji district, acting on the confession of an arrested ULFA terrorist, recovers 1000 gelatin sticks from the house of a civilian in the Cimen Chapori area.

Union Home Secretary, V.K. Duggal, says in Guwahati that the Union Government would respond to the NDFB’s cease-fire offer within a few weeks.

May 14

Two ULFA cadres, Debajit Amche and Palesh Malang, are arrested from the Rangfang gaon area in Karbi Anglong district.

May 17

Three NSCN-IM cadres are arrested from Ludhi Basti under Haflong police station in the North Cachar Hills district along with 100 gelatine sticks, 30 rounds of .9 mm ammunition, one detonator and a number of extortion notes.

May 19

Mahak Tao Tao, town commander of the NSCN-IM, is arrested from Longmang village in the North Cachar Hills district along with some incriminating documents.

ULFA ‘chairman’, Arabinda Rajkhowa, requests the United States President, George W. Bush, to remove the outfit from the list of designated terrorist outfits. Rajkhowa, in a letter, also regretted bomb explosions like the August 15, 2004-Dhemaji incident as tactical blunders.

May 20

A security force personnel is killed and four others sustain injuries during an ambush by the ULFA at Borhat under Sonari subdivision in the Sibsagar district.

Two railway personnel are injured in two explosions on the railway tracks near Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar district.

Two suspected ISI agents are arrested from Maroi village in the Darrang district on the charges of supplying arms to the ULFA. A revolver and three rounds of ammunition are recovered from them.

May 21

A college teacher and a freelance journalist are arrested from Bilasipara in the Dhubri district and Panbazaar in Kamrup district respectively for alleged links with the ULFA and involvement in several explosions in Guwahati. Four grenades, 249 IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) circuits, 44 battery connectors, 20 cables, letterheads of ULFA, a digital camera and a mobile device recovered from them.

ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a statement says that the outfit would not tolerate atrocities on indigenous Assamese Muslims.

May 23

Three persons, including a security force personnel, are injured as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an IED explosion in the Noonmati locality of Guwahati city.

May 25

A tripartite cease-fire agreement, valid for a year beginning June 1, 2005, is signed between the NDFB, Union Government and Government of Assam in New Delhi.

Union Government sends a formal letter to the ULFA ‘chairman’ through mediator Indira Goswami inviting the outfit for peace talks.

May 26

ULFA terrorists kill a leader of the Congress party, Amrit Dutta, at the Dhekorgorah Block office under Pulibor police station in Jorhat district.

Three SF personnel are injured in an explosion triggered by the ULFA at Digboi-Pengeri road in the Dibrugarh district.

May 27

Three persons are killed and three others sustain injuries in an ambush by the KLNLF on a passenger vehicle at Silveta under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

Explosion detonated by ULFA cadres damages a wooden bridge at Maithong on the National Highway No. 52, connecting the eastern parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

May 30

The ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah demands release of four of the outfit’s leaders before commencement of talks with the Union Government.

June 3

The Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector-General of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland region, S C Srivastava, discloses at a news conference in Shillong that leaders of the ULFA are running seven hotels in different locations in Bangladesh.

June 4

Suspected ULFA terrorists explode a bomb beneath a microwave tower at Gutanagar.

The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is reported to have said that his Government was ready to give free passage to jailed ULFA ‘central executive’ members and even consider freeing them.

June 5

Two ULFA terrorists belonging to the outfit’s '28th battalion', identified as Apurba Barua and Pawan Moran, are killed during an encounter with the army personnel at Jokaichowkgaon in the Tinsukia district.

A Kuki National Front (KNF) cadre is killed in an encounter at Khelmabasti in the North Cachar Hills district.

June 7

14 terrorists belonging to different militant outfits like the ULFA, KLNLF, DHD and KRA surrender to the authorities at the Misa Army camp.

June 9

Assam Police arrests an hotelier in the Guwahati city, Hemendra Dutta Choudhury, on charges of money laundering for the ULFA.

June 14

Two suspected NSCN-K cadres, undergoing treatment after being injured in a landmine blast at Thosen subdivision in the Tamenglong district of Manipur, are arrested from a private hospital in the Cachar district.

June 15

ULFA, in a press statement, claims that the Indian Government does not want a solution to the ‘India-Assam conflict’ and is continuing military operations against the outfit. The press statement further says that the outfit had agreed to the negotiations as the "Assamese people wanted to know the result of the conflict."

The UPDS joint secretary W Mukhrang, in a statement, claims, "The KLNLF is a spent force which is engaged only in fratricidal killings."

June 16

Four ULFA terrorists, including three woman cadres, are killed in an encounter with the police at Doloni village under Khowang Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.

Ten ULFA cadres, including ‘sergeant major’ Amit Chandra Mandal, surrender to the Army in Dhubri along with some arms and ammunition.

Assam Governor, Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, in an interview to Press Trust of India, opposes the release of ULFA terrorists before the start of the dialogue process. He says, "All negotiations should be held on terms set by the government and not on their terms."

June 19

Four ULFA terrorists and one SF personnel are killed during two encounters in the Nalbari district.

June 20

Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger a powerful explosion at the State Secretariat complex in the capital Dispur.

June 21

Assam Governor, Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh, speaking in Shillong says, "The question of release of the outfit’s leaders should be done away with. If the ULFA thinks that they need a quorum for talks that can be done with safe passage given to leaders from outside to come to Assam."

June 22

Two unidentified ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the police at Jonai in the Dhemaji district.

Mojammel Haque, a ULFA 'commander', is arrested from a hideout at Baxirhat in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal.

June 23

DHD chairman Dilip Nunisa says that the outfit is ready to compromise on its demand of the integration of Dimasa-inhabited areas of Assam and Nagaland "if Delhi accedes to the call for Dimaraji statehood."

June 24

A police officer, Puna Gogoi, is killed by the ULFA at Talap Bazaar in the Tinsukia district.

June 26

12 persons, including six CRPF personnel, are injured in an IED explosion triggered by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Nine Mile area of Guwahati city. Two persons succumb to their injuries subsequently.

June 27

The NDFB 'general secretary', Govinda Basumatary, in a press statement reiterates the outfit’s demand for a ‘sovereign Bodo state’ and says the principle and ideology of NDFB "is the liberation of Bodoland and thereby the talks with the Indian government would be based on the solid rock of our principle and ideology."

June 29

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, speaking to the press in Guwahati, says that despite a series of bomb explosions the Government would strive for a peace process with the ULFA. He says, "Just because of some incidents, we should not give up the hope. Efforts should continue as long as possible."

June 30

A letter written by the ULFA ‘chairman’ to the National Security Advisor is sent to the Prime Minister’s Office.

July 1

The Adivasi Cobra Force (ACF) extends its unilateral cease-fire for a period of six months.

July 10

An ISI agent, identified as Hanif Khan, is arrested from a hotel in the Guwahati city on charges of selling classified documents related to the country’s security to a foreign country.

July 11

ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah, in a letter to the Prime Minister, threatens to ‘reconsider’ the option of negotiating with the Government if the dialogue process does not focus on sovereignty for the State. The outfit further says that any dialogue process could begin only after the release of 10 of its leaders currently held in various jails in India, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

July 12

The Supreme Court of India repeals the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) [IM (DT)] Act. In a verdict delivered by Justice G. P. Mathur, the Court says, "The IM (DT) rules and tribunals are declared to be ultra vires of the Constitution and are struck down."

July 13

Police in the Bashistha locality of Guwahati city recovers three AK-47 rifles, a US carbine, a Brazil-made pistol, and 500 rounds of ammunition from an abandoned house near a temple at Nalapara.

July 14

Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion targeting a passing security force vehicle inside the Duramara Reserve Forest area under Pengeri Police Station in Tinsukia district.

July 18

Guwahati city police arrests three suspected ISI agents from various locations. Subsequently, four ULFA linkmen are also arrested.

July 20

Cease-fire between the Union Government and UPDS is extended for a year, up to July 31, 2006 following an agreement signed at the Border Security Force (BSF) sector headquarters at Patgaon in Guwahati.

July 23

Pallab Bora, 'area commander' of the Minority Liberation Front, is arrested from the Kaki reserve forest in Nagaon district.

July 26

Three ULFA cadres are killed and another sustains injuries in an encounter with the Army personnel between Jagun and Jairampur in the Sibsagar district.

July 27

A ULFA terrorist and one Army personnel are killed in an encounter at the 12-Mile area inside Tinkupani reserve forest under Lekhapani police station in the Tinsukia district.

ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an e-mail to the media in Guwahati, asks the people of Assam "to abdicate Indian politics and not to invite and listen to the oratory of Indian politicians." He claims "even now lakhs of people who love Assam are ready to dedicate themselves for the cause of a sovereign Assam."

Operation Khamdo, launched by the Army to target ULFA cadres hiding in the Wara reserve forest area along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Tinsukia district, is called off.

July 31

ULFA asks politicians from New Delhi to keep away from campaigning in the Legislative Assembly elections in early 2006. The outfit's chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an e-mail statement to the local media says, "The practice of inviting leaders of national parties to the state, as if they were leaders from Assam, and listening to their speeches must be stopped immediately."

July 31

The North East Students Organiation warns the Union Government against any move to reintroduce laws protecting the interests of the Bangladeshi infiltrators.

August 1

ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a statement, threatens to step up violence unless New Delhi responds positively to its offer for peace talks. "We cannot just sit tight with the hope of getting a positive response from the government for holding peace talks. We will intensify our armed struggle," he says.

August 7

Four persons are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in an explosion detonated by the ULFA at a bus stand at Boko in the Kamrup district.

ULFA carries out a series of explosions targeting army installations, oil and gas pipelines, electric and telephone exchanges in the Nalbari, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia and Lakhimpur districts.

The NDFB 'general secretary', B Swmkhwr alias Gobinda Basumatary, addressing a meeting at Dinakuchi in the Darrang district says that Bodos were independent in the past and want to remain sovereign. He says, "The NDFB has declared a ceasefire but not ended their struggle for sovereignty."

August 9

The 'helper' of a truck dies as suspected KLNLF cadres ambush a convoy of six trucks plying from Hojai to Diphu at the Desobai area under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

An activist of the human rights organisation, Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti, Benudhar Hazarika, is arrested from Abhayapuri village under Borholla police station in the Jorhat district for nexus with the ULFA.

August 11

Six ULFA collaborators are arrested from the Charigaon and Koronga areas in Jorhat district.

August 14

Headman of Devidpur village in Merapani area is killed by the Adivasi Cobra Force (ACF) militants.

August 16

A civilian, identified as Salim, is shot dead by ULFA cadres at Khamti Mohang village under the Bordumsa Police Station limits.

August 17

14 people sustain injuries in a grenade attack by suspected KLNLF militants at Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, S. Reghupathy, speaking in the Rajya Sabha says that the Government has no specific report of the ULFA running hotels and having bank accounts in Bangladesh.

August 18

Three KLNLF cadres are arrested from Doboka in the Naogaon district along with an AK-56 rifle, an AK-47 rifle and two hand grenades.

August 21

Police in the Guwahati city recovers 420 detonators from the residence of a person identified as Abdul Aziz in the Ganeshpara locality.

August 22

C. Bora, a doctor, and two nurses are arrested from Rupaisiding in the Tinsukia district for alleged nexus with the ULFA. The doctor confesses of having treated several ULFA cadres.

August 27

One person was killed and 14 others, including a police officer, are injured when ULFA cadres hurled two grenades at a police party on the national highway at Changsari in the Kamrup district.

August 30

Two ULFA terrorists shoot dead a school-teacher, Sukleswar Medhi, in front of the Balitara High School in Nalbari district. A ULFA terrorist is killed in the subsequent army operation in the same area.

Army launches an anti-insurgency operation in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest in Tinsukia district in search of ULFA terrorists, Prabal Neog, Jiten Dutta and A. Saikia of the '28th battalion'.

August 31

Robin Handique, 'Political Advisor' of the ULFA, dies at Kanaklata Civil Hospital following kidney failure.

September 2

Four KLNLF cadres, one cadre each of the ULFA, NDFB and MULTA surrender before the army authorities at Misa camp near Nagaon.

September 8

ULFA calls for a dawn-to-dusk general strike in protest against "Government's negligence towards the treatment of ULFA leader Robin Handique leading to his death."

ULFA announces a 10-member people's consultative group headed by mediator Indira Goswami to enter into a dialogue with the Union Government. The members are: journalists Ajit Bhuyan, Hyder Hussain, Diganta Konwar; sports organizer Hiranya Saikia; Dr Brojen Gogoi; engineer Mukul Mahanta, lawyer Arup Borbora; Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti adviser Lachit Bordoloi and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad leader Dilip Patgiri.

September 10

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi rules out the declaration of a unilateral cease-fire with the ULFA. Speaking to the media in New Delhi, he says, "Cease-fire is always two-way traffic, it cannot be one way."

September 12

Suspected KLNLF militants abduct three employees of the Bhagwati tea estate, under Santipur police station.

September 14

Eight persons are killed and several others sustain injuries as suspected Kuki Revolutionary Army militants open indiscriminate fire at Thekerajan village in the Karbi Anglong district.

Members of the consultative group formed by the ULFA threaten to pull out of the negotiation initiative in the event of "unprovoked and unwarranted" army operations against the militants.

ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a press statement, says 12 of the outfit's cadres have been killed in the army operations in the Dibru-Saikhowa forests. Army authorities, however, deny this.

September 19

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a surrendered NDFB cadre, Bishtu Basumatari, near Seventh Assam Police Battalion headquarters at Tarai Bari in the Kokrajhar district.

Biju Chakravarti alias Shailen Sharma, a senior ULFA cadre, was arrested along with his wife from a locality near Amber Fort in Jaipur, capital city of Rajasthan.

September 20

Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukharjee, speaking to the press in Dimapur, said that Army operations against the ULFA would continue as there was no cease-fire with the proscribed outfit. He said, "How can you do that when we do not have any ceasefire in place?"

The Army, during its ongoing operations in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest, killed a ULFA 'battalion commander', Achintya Saikia, and one of his woman associates in an encounter near Ajuka village.

September 22

Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee tells the media at 21 Mountain Division Headquarters of the Army at Rangiya in Assam that ground rules had to be framed before any kind of peace negotiation between the ULFA and Union Government.

September 23

A ULFA cadre, identified as Azad Barua alias Swadhin Ray, is arrested from a flat in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

September 24

Suspected KLNLF militants attack the Bagori police outpost near Jakhalabanda in the Nagaon district.

September 26

Two ULFA terrorists, Nilim Kumar and Hiren Dohotia, are killed by the Army at Dibru-Saikhowa in the Tinsukia district.

September 27

Army calls off its month-long operation in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest of Tinsukia district. An Army spokesperson states in Guwahati that the forest area was "cleared of all ultras" and the task given to the troops has been accomplished.

September 28

Three persons are injured in an explosion triggered by unidentified terrorists in front of a para-military camp at Rani in the Kamrup district.

September 29

The ULFA sends a formal letter informing the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of the formation of the People's Consultative Group (PCG).

October 1

ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom, says that it would not start any negotiations with the Government till the time Army operations against the outfit are completely stopped.

October 2

Five members of a family are killed by unidentified militants at Hemari Terang village under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 3

Two persons are injured in two bomb blasts at Alagzar in the Baksa district and Barzar in Nalbari district.

October 7

A ULFA cadre, Dulu Sonowal, is shot dead during an encounter with the SFs at Jokai Sohikota Tepuguri village in the Dibrugarh district.

October 8

Suspected militants enter the Karbi-dominated Borsing Bey village, seven km away from Diphu, and kill five Karbi villagers, including a two-year old child, and set ablaze more than 60 huts.

Two civilians are killed in a cross-fire between the police and Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front militants.

October 9

Six persons from the Bura Fanchu and Longsing Engti villages are killed and hundreds of houses are set ablaze by unidentified terrorists in separate incidents under Diphu and Bokajan police stations in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 10

Six persons are killed in the continuing ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district. A group of 100 to 150 armed persons enter the Kheroni village, inhabited by the Dimasa tribe, and open indiscriminate fire killing six persons on the spot. Nearly 60 houses also set ablaze by the miscreants.

Assam Government announces an inquiry headed by Justice (retired) P. C. Phukan to probe into the ethnic killings in Karbi Anglong district.

October 16

Assam Police recovers four dead bodies from the Hojaipur, Doldoli and Dhansiri areas of Karbi Anglong district. Unidentified militants set ablaze 200 abandoned houses in the same area.

One person is killed and four others are injured in an explosion in front of the Barama police station in Nalbari district.

October 17

Suspected Dimasa militants waylay two passenger buses travelling from Zirikinding at Charchim under Kheroni police station in Karbi Anglong district and kill 23 persons, including nine women, belonging to the Karbi tribe.

The same group of armed militants later kill seven persons in the nearby Sarsing village and five more persons in Prseck village.

October 18

Seven persons are killed in the continuing ethnic clashes in Karbi Anglong district. Six bodies are recovered from the Doyangmukh area while another was recovered from Borlangphar Tisso village under Diphu police station.

October 21

Suspected DHD militants kill nine UPDS cadres at Tamulbari under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

October 23

Security forces arrest five armed DHD cadres from Umrangshu Bazaar in the North Cachar Hills district.

October 24

Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a hotel employee, Pramode Singh, at Khowang in the Dibrugarh district for non-payment of extortion money.

October 25

Two ULFA terrorists, Chand Barman alias Ritesh Saud and Surat Deka alias Rupjyoti, are killed during an operation by the police at Mowamari Chapori in the Darrang district.

Security forces arrest Nripen Sarma, chairperson of a women’s organisation Lovita, along with two other members from the organization’s office at Chayygaon in the Kamrup district on charges of having a nexus with the ULFA.

October 26

A round of negotiations between the Union Government and the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group (PCG) is held in New Delhi.

October 27

The GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, Lt Gen Arvind Sharma, speaking to the press in Kolkata says that the Army would continue counter-insurgency operations in Assam till a cease-fire is reached with the ULFA.

A ULFA cadre, ‘Lance corporal’ Meena Bokolial alias Meena Gogoi of the outfit’s 28th battalion and three other women cadres, Binita Hazarika, Monalisa Moran and Khyanmanti Moran, are arrested by the Army at Dighalipathar in the Philobari area of Tinsukia district.

October 29

The Assam Government agrees to conduct a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the recent ethnic clashes between the Karbi and the Dimasa tribes in the State.

November 1

The ULFA, in its fortnightly newsletter Freedom, greets the PCG for starting the peace process with the Centre and raising the matter of sovereignty in the meeting.

November 2

November 4

Two unidentified ULFA militants are killed by the Army at Tekelipathar under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district.

KLNLF calls a 10-hour general strike in the Karbi Anglong district to protest against the "military dominion perpetrated by the Indian colonial power upon the self governing territories of the North-east, including Karbi Anglong and NC Hills."

November 6

Two ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the Army at Medhipara village under Bilasipara police station in Dhubri district.

A SULFA cadre, Parikhit Hazarika, abducted earlier by an unidentified group on November 17, is found with stab injuries at the Digboi-Pengeri road in the Tinsukia district. Hazarika succumbs to his injuries at the district civil hospital.

November 19

17 civilian houses are set ablaze by unidentified Karbi militants at Lower Mohandijua village under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

November 22

Two Karbi civilians are killed by Dimasa militants in the Kansing Timung village of Karbi Anglong district.

The ‘organising secretary’ of MASS, Phulen Tamuli, is arrested at Sarthebari in the Barpeta district.

November 26

One security force personnel is killed by unidentified militants at Hatikhola in the North Cachar Hills district.

November 29

Fifty Dimasa tribal houses are set ablaze by unidentified militants at Gidingpur village in the Dhansiri area of Karbi Anglong district.

November 30

Two dead bodies are recovered at Hidimpur village in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 1

Two dead bodies are recovered near Dillai outpost under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 2

Four civilians, including a two-month-old infant, are killed by DHD militants at Sirkangnep village in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 3

379 houses are set ablaze by DHD militants in six villages of Mohendijua and Lunhnit areas in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 3

One surrendered NDFB cadre is killed by unidentified militants at Boro Nalbari in the Kokrajhar district.

December 4

Eight houses are set ablaze by unidentified militants in Tumpreng Tisso village under Hamreng sub-division in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 5

36 houses are set ablaze by unidentified militants at Englongkiri Manasi village in the Borlangpher locality of Karbi Anglong district.

December 6

Two unidentified militants of DHD’s Jewel Garlossa faction are killed at Retzol near Haflong in the NC Hills district.

Dead bodies of two civilians, missing since December 2 and suspected to have been killed by militants, are recovered from Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 7

One civilian is killed by unidentified militants at Deramukh village under Baithalangsu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 13

One village headman is killed by unidentified militants at Manja in the Karbi Anglong district. DHD announces cease-fire with the UPDS in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts during Christmas festivities.

December 14

Minister of State for Home, S Reghupathy, informs the Rajya Sabha that security forces have suspended counter-insurgency operations against ULFA.

December 15

Ministry of Home and Defence deny of any cease-fire with the ULFA.

December 16

SULFA cadre Manikut Kalita is killed by the ULFA at Dipila Chowk about 18 kilometers away from Mangaldoi town.

December 20

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says in Guwahati that the State Government would be happy to provide safe passage to the ULFA leadership if it wanted to hold direct talks with the Centre.

December 21

Unidentified militants set ablaze six houses at Milapur village along Diphu-Lumding road in the Karbi Anglong district.

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil states in the Parliament that “Outside elements” are responsible for the violence in northeast.

December 22

Police dismantles a bomb-making factory of the ULFA at Pushpawan village under Merapani police station in the Golaghat district.

December 27

Officer-in-charge of Nelli outpost and a ULFA cadre were killed in an encounter at Durapani under Jagiroad police station in the Morigaon district.

December 28

An unidentified militant is killed at Kuludong in the Karbi Anglong district.

13 Dimasa houses are set ablaze by a group of 80-armed militants in the Pub Silpota village under Bokolia police outpost in the Karbi Anglong district.

Arms and ammunitions, including a 9mm pistol and seven rounds of bullets, along with 426 bottles of liquor and currency notes belonging to several countries such as the USA, Korea, Philippines, Nepal, Malaysia and Vietnam are recovered by the CRPF personnel from three Naga youths in the Dohmile Khuti area of Golaghat district.

December 30

SULFA cadre, Biren Neog, is killed in police firing at Digboi in the Tinsukia district.

Ten NSCN-K militants are arrested from the Maibong and Mahur areas of the North Cachar Hills district along with an unspecified amount of arms, ammunition and documents.