January 1

Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, while asking the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to participate in peace talks, said, "sovereignty is out of the question."

The Union Government extends the four-year-old cease-fire with the Dima Halim Daogah (DHD) by another year. "The suspension of operations agreement between the security forces and Dima Halim Daogah (DHD), a militant outfit, has been extended for a period of one year up to December 31, 2007," said a release issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. The Government and the DHD had entered into a truce in January 2003.

January 2

Two ULFA militants, Kongkon Gogoi alias Kamal Gogoi and Surajit Gohain alias Yugantar Phukon, are killed in an encounter with the security force (SF) personnel at Chirang Gaon under Bordubi police station in the Tinsukia district.

Assam Police recover the dead body of a driver, Jayanta Bharali, along with his vehicle from Kakojan river in the Jorhat district. The recovery of the dead body is followed by the arrest of a militant, Dadu Borah alias Barun, from Kakojan Arandhara village under Teok police station.

January 3

The Union Home Secretary V. K. Duggal urges the ULFA to withdraw its call to boycott the National Games scheduled in February 2007. He stated, "The National Games is a pride of Asom. And everybody in the State should feel honoured by holding the Games. Everybody knows the true spirit of games and sports, and with that in view, the ULFA should withdraw its call to boycott the National Games."

At least 24 DHD cadres deserted the Nunisa faction’s designated camp at Dihinga along the North Cachar Hills-Kari Anglong border in two batches to join the Black Widow, the anti-talks faction of the DHD led by Jewel Garlosa. They decamped with six self-loading rifles, an M-16 rifle and a few more arms along with a huge cache of ammunition.

January 4

The dead body of a ULFA cadre, Likhon Moran alias Likheswar Gogoi, is recovered by SF personnel from Lakhipathar forest in the Tinsukia district. Likhon was injured in an encounter with the Army personnel on January 2.

Six ULFA militants, identified as Pitar Rava, Sriram Rava, Bidhan Rava, Ashok Narzary, Gangaram Koch and Sujit Rava, are arrested following an encounter with the SF personnel near Hail river under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.

January 5

At least 19 persons are killed and 25 others wounded, when explosions were triggered targeting migrant workers in six separate locations in the eastern districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. Sibsagar district was also part of the area where explosion caused civilian casualty. Heavily armed ULFA militants attacked two brick kilns, fired indiscriminately on shops and business centres, besides triggering an explosion near a tea garden.

Eight persons are killed and 11 others sustain injuries when ULFA militants opened fire at Bandarkhat and Langswal Tea Estates under Duliajan police station in the Tinsukia district.

Three suspected MULTA cadres are arrested from Sater Alga village in the Dhubri district. A bomb and 500 grams of explosives are recovered from their hideout.

January 6

Ajit Deori, a leader of the Congress Party, is killed by ULFA militants near his house at Mohong Deorigaon under Pengree police station in the Tinsukia district.

The death toll in serial attacks on Hindi speaking people by the ULFA in the upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Dhemaji increases to 48.

The Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants kill eight polling personnel and injure eight others during elections to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council. Militants exploded an improvised explosive device and fired on polling personnel when they were returning after the close of voting.

January 7

Seven persons belonging to Bihar are killed and three others sustain injuries when ULFA militants called them out of their homes at Borali Bari near Mahmara in the Sibsagar district and opened fire.

Assam Police said that six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead and one injured in an attack by the ULFA at Chokolia near Dimow in the Dibrugarh district.

Two Hindi-speaking persons are killed and five injured when ULFA militants opened fire targeting a brick kiln at Sepon Chagolia in Moran.

Two ULFA militants are killed in an encounter with the SF personnel in a counter-insurgency operation in the Sibsagar district.

January 8

One civilian died in cross fire occurred place between Army personnel and ULFA militants at Sadhubasti Naohalia village under Duliajan police station in the Dibrugarh district.

A Black Widow militant is killed in an encounter with the Army at Lalbong Basti under Maibong police station in the North Cachar Hills district. One .303 rifle and one 9mm pistol are recovered from him.

ULFA militants shot dead two labourers hailing from the State of Bihar and injured another at Gelabeel area under Borpathar poice station in the Golaghat district.

Two persons, Joy Mahato and Jitendra Prasad, who were injured in the serial bomb blasts triggered by the ULFA, succumbed to their injuries at Assam Medical College hospital in the Dibrugarh district. With these deaths the fatalities have risen to 67.

Eleven persons are wounded when ULFA triggers two explosions at Satgaon market near the Narengi cantonment in the Kamrup District.

Reports indicate that a large number of Hindi-speaking migrant workers have started fleeing Assam in batches following the terrorist attacks by the ULFA.

January 9

A ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with security personnel at Dangargarh under Tamulpur police station in the Baska district. One AK-47 rifle and one magazine are recovered from the slain militant.

The Army launches an operation, code-named Rhino-II, across Assam, but primarily in upper Assam, including the Sivasagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

January 10

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi accuses Indira Goswami, a member of the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group, of "hiding facts" relating to ULFA’s links with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency. He said, "Why did she not reveal whatever the Centre told her about Ulfa’s link with Pakistan’s ISI?"

January 11

A ULFA cadre, Ridamsha Mushahary alias Chifung, who is arrested from Kulchi area of Kamrup district, confesses that the ULFA extorted ransoms amounting to lakhs of rupees in Kamrup during the last few months.

The Army claims that the ‘28th Battalion’ of the ULFA is trained at camps in Myanmar. The battalion, with an estimated strength of 350-plus, had reportedly masterminded and executed some of the worst massacres in upper Assam, including the latest serial killings of Hindi-speaking migrants.

Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony rules out the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in Northeast India. "The AFSPA has to stay otherwise how can we tackle situations such as those created by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). But wherever possible we will give it a humane touch," said the Minister.

January 12

An unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead during a counter-insurgency operation at a village in the Baska district bordering Bhutan.

Three unidentified ULFA militants are killed and an equal number of them arrested during a counter-insurgency operation in the Darrang district.

January 13

The ULFA threatens to target leaders of the ruling Congress Party in Assam if Army operations against the outfit continues. A caller claiming to be from the group's 28th battalion rang up a private TV channel's office in Guwahati and made the threat.

January 15

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi becomes head of the Unified Command for counter-insurgency operations in Assam. The Chief Secretary was reportedly the head of the three-tier Unified Command comprising the Army, Police and Paramilitary Forces. "The entire Unified Command structure will henceforth be directly under me… I will be presiding over all meetings of the command," said the Chief Minister in Dibrugarh.

The Chief Minister says that the six-week ceasefire with the ULFA was a blunder, with the outfit taking advantage of the truce to regroup its cadres and spread them across Assam. "In retrospect, I admit that the judgment may be a little wrong when we offered a ceasefire to the ULFA," said Gogoi.

January 17

Two civilians, including a child, are killed and 15 others are wounded when the ULFA militants trigger an explosion at a shopping place at Ganeshguri in Dispur, the capital of Assam. The Special Superintendent of Police, Nitul Gogoi, describes the bomb as a timer device hidden in a carton of vegetables.

Two unidentified ULFA militants are killed in an encounter with the Army personnel near Doomdooma tea estate in the Tinsukia district. Two ULFA cadres are also arrested from the encounter site.

Five ULFA militants are arrested from the Sonitpur district. Three crude bombs, a rifle and some machetes were recovered from them. While two ULFA militants were arrested from Dhubri, another militant was arrested from Sapkata in the Kokrajhar district.

The Army says that the ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah is working under Bangladesh’s direct ‘diktat’.

January 18

The NDFB militants open fire in the air and set ablaze vehicles in different places of Assam, to enforce the general strike called by the outfit in protest against the January 16-arrest of a militant, Gopal Rabha, from Guwahati.

The ULFA, while justifying the killing of Hindi-speaking persons, asks "all Indian citizens who migrated to Assam" to leave the State.

January 19

Two civilians are killed and 10 others sustain injuries when ULFA militants explode a bomb, concealed in a vegetable basket, at a market near Adabari bus terminus in Guwahati.

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.

A ULFA militant, ‘sergeant’ Polashmani Barua, is killed in an encounter with security force (SF) personnel at Dirok Nabajyoti under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. While three other militants manage to escape, four gelatin sticks and five detonators are recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

A huge cache of arms and explosives, including two kilograms of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) — capable of making 17 powerful bombs — two huge remote-controlled explosives, 17 detonators and some fuse wires, is recovered from the residence of an absconding ULFA linkman, Pilingia Moran, at Mamoroni village in the Tinsukia district.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while denying any scope for talks on ‘sovereignty’, condemns the ULFA for threatening Hindi-speaking people. "The ULFA has no authority to issue such threats to anybody. These threats and killings have only shown whose purpose the ULFA is serving," says the Chief Minister. Chief Minister also announces the constitution of a permanent welfare board to look after the special needs of those families which had become victims of militancy.

January 20

Two Hindi-speaking persons are killed and twelve are injured as ULFA militants trigger a powerful blast in Tinsukia town.

The ULFA militants kill a worker of the Congress party in Digboi. Congress panchayat (village level body) secretary Bogadhar Moran is killed at his residence in Betani village under the Digboi police station.

A ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with security personnel at Dariduri Namapara village in the Goalpara district. One grenade, one M-20 pistol, some ULFA related incriminating documents are recovered from possession of the slain militant.

An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with security personnel at Gakhirchuk Boragaon under Fatasil Ambari police station in Guwahati City. Two grenades and some fuse wire are recovered from the slain militants.

January 21

One person is killed and 12 others are injured when a bomb planted by suspected ULFA militants explodes in the fish market at Bohori in the Barpeta district.

At least five persons are injured in a blast at a parking area near the railway station at Bongaigaon. According to police sources, suspected ULFA militants planted the bomb in a motorcycle.

Assam Police confirm extortion and abduction activities by the Adivasi National Liberation Army militants in the Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district and Dhansiri subdivision of Golaghat district. The militants are operating in the border areas of the two districts such as Gelabil, Naujan, Doloni, Betoni and Mulapani.

The ULFA’s main linkman with the Pakistan’s Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI), Munna Choudhury, is arrested from a rented house at Panjabari area in Guwahati. A map spotting city areas dominated by Hindi-speaking people and a fake passport in the name of Ajmal Munna are recovered from his possession. Subsequently, Motlib Khan, the operation in-charge of the ISI, and his accomplice, Ajharuddin Ali, are arrested from Guwahati. They were involved in the January 9-bomb blast in Dispur, the capital of Assam.

January 22

At least four ULFA militants hurl a grenade on police personnel who retaliate injuring two militants at Gopalpur under Kalapani police outpost in the Dhubri district.

The ULFA is funding select candidates in the deferred general elections in Bangladesh. The report adds that the outfit is spending over INR 300 million in the polls. "It is partially funding at least 15 candidates, besides indirectly donating to party funds of a few major parties…..It is not a coincidence that most of these candidates are also very close to the ISI (the Pakistani intelligence agency)," said the source. "ULFA has to pay protection money to government officials of Bangladesh," said an unnamed source.

An unidentified militant triggers a powerful explosive device on the track between Nailalung and Diphu railway stations under Lumding division of North East Frontier Railway in the Karbi Anglong district, damaging the railway track and a loaded wagon.

A portion of the railway track between Diphu and Nailalong Railway stations in the Karbi Anglong district is damaged due to a bomb explosion triggered by suspected ULFA and KLNLF militants.

January 23

One civilian is killed and 14 others are injured in an explosion at Adabari in the Guwahati city of Kamrup district. The explosive was hidden in a bag and was left in a tea stall allegedly by suspected ULFA militants.

A leader of the ruling Congress party, identified as Chandra Chutia, is shot dead by ULFA militants at Tarani Pathar under Naharkatia police station in the Dibrugarh district.

At least six persons are injured in an explosion at the Paglasthan market in the Bongaigaon district. Elsewhere in the district, suspected ULFA militants trigger an explosion under a culvert near Bongaigaon town.

January 24

A truck driver, Dijendra Rai, is shot at and wounded by the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front militants at Lahorijan on the way to Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.

A woman is injured in a blast at Boragog village under Kamalpur police station in Kamrup district.

January 25

One person, identified as Kushal Baniya, is killed and eight others sustain injuries when ULFA cadres trigger a improvised explosive device (IED) explosion at a bus terminus at Rangia in the Kamrup (Rural) district.

A tea labourer is killed in a cross-fire between security force personnel and the United Democratic Liberation Army militants at Dholai tea estate in the Hailakandi district. The newly formed outfit, reportedly comprising of Reang tribals and Bangladeshi nationals, is involved in abduction and extortion in the Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.

A suspected ULFA militant is killed when the bomb that he was carrying on a bicycle accidentally exploded at Borhatjan under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district. Two persons are wounded in the blast.

January 26

Assam Governor, Lt. Gen (Rtd) Ajai Singh, while addressing the Republic Day celebration in Guwahati, said that the ULFA "regrouped and consolidated its weak positions" by taking advantage of the cease-fire during the period of indirect talks through the People's Consultative Group (PCG).

53 militants were killed and 826 arrested in the State during counter-insurgency operation in 2006, indicated a report.

An activist of the ruling Congress party, identified as Sailadhar Rajkonwar, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at number 1 Kanu gaon under Sapekhati police station in the Sivasagar district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

January 27

A ULFA militant, Binod Chetia, of the ‘28th battalion’ is killed during an encounter at Gandhaiguri under Kakopathar police station in the Tinsukia district. He was reportedly involved in the recent killing of Hindi-speaking people at Longswal under Doomdooma police station.

A ULFA militant, Swadhin Rabha, is killed in an encounter with the SFs near Krishnai under Dudhnoi police station in the Goalpara district.

The DHD leader, Dilip Nunisa, claims responsibility for the killings of 13 of their cadres who had deserted their camp at Dhansiri to join the rival Black Widow in Karbi Anglong on January 14.

January 28

The cease-fire liaison office of the DHD is attacked by the rival Black Widow militants at Haflong in the North Cachar Hills district and in the ensuing clash a Black Widow militant is killed.

A ULFA linkman, Maniram Gogoi, is killed by the SFs at Jaipur in the Tinsukia district.

An activist of the ruling Congress party, identified as Khagen Charringia, is shot dead by ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Sibsagar district.

January 29

Two Hindi speaking civilians are shot dead by the ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Tinsukia district.

SF personnel shot dead an ULFA militant, identified as Moni Gogo, in a retaliatory fire, when a group of ULFA militants hurl a hand grenade at the SF personnel near the Dehing River at Asomiya Gaon under Joypur police station in the Dibrugarh district.

A ULFA militant, identified as Swadhin Rabha, is shot dead in an encounter with the police at Kalpani village under Krishnai police station in Goalpara district.

January 30

Two Hindi-speaking persons are shot at and wounded by the ULFA at Mazbat in the Udalguri district.

ULFA warns the North East Television channel to stop its operations in Assam if it fails to prove within a month its report that the outfit had taken money from the State Government to withdraw its call to boycott the National Games, scheduled to be held in Guwahati from February 9-18.

At least 50 brick kilns in the Darrang district are closed due to the mass exodus of labourers for fear of being targeted by ULFA militants.

January 31

Additional Superintendent of Police of the Jorhat district, Mukul Saikia, says that three ULFA militants, Pathik Hatimota, Amrit Dutta and Pradip Bora, who abducted and later killed the social worker, Sanjoy Ghose, in 1997, are camping in Majuli and targeting workers of the Congress party for extortion.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while meeting the Union Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee, asks the Centre to persuade Myanmar and Bangladesh to flush out ULFA militants from those countries. "I asked the minister to take up the matter with the authorities of Myanmar and Bangladesh so that those rebels hiding there are flushed out," said the Chief Minister.

February 1

A worker of the ruling Congress party, identified as Abdul Bashar, is shot dead by the ULFA militants, while he was on his way to Kacharipam near Deargaon town in the Golaghat district.

Inspector-General of Police R.M. Singh confirms that a junior engineer of the Border Roads Organisation, M. Ganeshan, who was abducted by the ULFA from Gitibari in the Udalguri district on December 22, was kept in confinement in Bhutan.

February 2

Intelligence source reports that the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), the external intelligence agency of Bangladesh, was extending physical assistance to the top ULFA leaders, including ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa and ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah. The report added that the two were provided with passports to facilitate their travel, and the DGFI provided security to them. Baruah survived a few attacks because of the presence of the guards provided to him, mentions the report.

February 3

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the ULFA is trying to disrupt the National Games starting in Guwahati on February 9. "Till today there are intelligence reports about the ULFA planning to disrupt the Games. Till today they (ULFA) have not withdrawn their call to boycott the Games," he stated in Guwahati.

A farmer, identified as Jugantar Neog, is shot dead by the ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Tinsukia district.

A ‘corporal of 28th battalion’ of ULFA, Sanabar Moran, is killed in an encounter with SF personnel at an unspecified place between Nakathalguri and Talpathar in the Tinsukia district. However, five other militants manage to escape from the encounter site.

The ULFA again threatens the North East Television channel to prove its report that the outfit accepted money to withdraw the National Games boycott call within a month.

Two unidentified KLNLF militants are killed in an encounter with Police at Khasi Kunji Market under Samaguri police station in the Nagaon district.

February 5

ULFA withdraws the boycott call to the 33^rd National Games, scheduled to be held in Guwahati from February 9. In a statement made available to the media through e-mail, the outfit’s ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa, formally withdraws the boycott call "in view of the appeals made by the prominent sports personalities and sports-lovers of Asom".

February 6

An ULFA militant, Sanjib Rava alias Jakson Rava, is killed in an encounter with the Army at Barjhora under Lakhipur police station in the Goalpara district.

February 7

A ULFA militant, identified as commander of the outfit’s 27^th battalion, Biplob Changmai alias Hema Deka, is killed by Assam Police personnel during a counter-insurgency operation at Biswanath Pathar under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

February 8

The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chief Hagrama Mahiliary says that the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) area must get a separate state of Bodoland within the next two decades. He says that the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) leadership in its negotiations with the Union Government had come down from its separate state demand only due to lack of infrastructure needs for a state.

February 9

An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Choki village under Borbori ploice station in the Baska district.

February 10

Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chairman Hagrama Mohilary, while addressing the fourth anniversary of the Bodo Accord, declared that a "Bodo state" remains the ultimate dream for his community. Mohilary said: "I am confident that we will get the Bodoland state without any agitation by diplomatically fighting for it."

February 12

An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Borkuriha village under Rangia police station in the Kamrup (Rural) district. Another ULFA militant is arrested and one pistol with 9mm ammunition is recovered from the encounter site.

February 14

Intelligence source reports on ULFA’s probable strikes after the National Games is over. "This was more apparent after we received confession of an arrested ULFA cadre, stating that seven of her aids were hiding in and around the city….The lower rung of the ULFA suspects that top rung had come to some sort of monetary understanding with the Government to withdraw the boycott call during the National Games. Although there is no veracity but to keep the flock united the ULFA will restart attack," said sources, adding, "We must admit that, in the last couple of years, the Intelligence has been poor and we do not even have profiles of ULFA mid rung leaders."

February 15

Two women cadres of the ULFA, identified as Mrinmoyee Handique and Junmoni Saikia, are arrested from Singloopathar under Kakotibari police station in the Sivasagar district.

February 16

A top leader of the ‘28th battalion’ of ULFA, identified as Jagat Barua alias Ashim Barua, and his female associate, Kabita Barua, surrender before the Army at Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district.

February 18

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) weighing over one kilogram is recovered from a railway bridge and later defused near Longpatia railway station under Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district. The recovery was made minutes before the Rajdhani Express and the Tinsukia-Guwahati Inter City Express were scheduled to pass through the route.

February 19

At least five unidentified militants are arrested for their involvement in extortion at a forest at Dholmara in the Kokrajhar district. A huge cache of arms and explosives, including two foreign-made revolvers, two pistols, eight grenades, three .303 rifles, 10 detonators and 45 rounds of ammunition, is recovered from their possession.

February 21

Six ULFA linkmen are arrested from Ahomiyagaon, Kopouhuagaon and Joypur Tea Estate areas in the Dibrugarh district. They were identified as Raju Gogoi, Hiranath Phukan, Junti Phukan, Rakesh Saha, Sanjit Kamalapuri and Munna Thakur.

February 24

A ‘corporal of the A company of the 28 battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Nilakanta Dahotia alias Saroj Gogoi, is arrested from an unspecified place in the Tinsukia district.

February 25

Intelligence sources in Haflong, the headquarters of North Cachar Hills district, said that 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.

Rabia Begum alias "Phoolan Devi" of Cachar, who was arrested by Assam Police for involvement in the abduction of a child, identified as Shubham Sikdar, confesses during interrogation about the activities a new outfit, Young Muslim Party, set up in 2006.

February 26

A suspected NDFB militant is killed in an encounter near Kaki reserve forest in the Nagaon district.

February 27

Two senior executives of Shyamraipore Tea Estate are abducted by unidentified militants from their residence in the Golaghat district.

February 28

Assam Chief Minister says that there can be no compromise on the issue of sovereignty while negotiating with the ULFA. Speaking during the debate on the Governor’s Address in the State Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister mentions, "What will be achieved by discussing an issue which is non-negotiable? It will be sheer wastage of time. Ulfa also knows well that no government, which has taken an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution, can accept such a demand. It’s only a delaying tactics."

March 1

An employee of a construction company, who was abducted along with his colleague from Silchar in the Cachar district, is released.

Assam Tea Planters’ Association and the Golaghat-based North Eastern Tea Association separately petition Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for protection from extortionist outfits.

A police officer of sub-inspector rank, identified as Manik Ali, is put under suspension for allowing two under trial Pakistan’s ISI agents to make calls to Bangladesh from a local telephone booth after being produced in a court.

March 2

One ULFA militant, Bolin Moran, is shot dead by SF personnel during an encounter at Nagaon Shantipur in Raidang under Digboi police station in the Tinsukia district. A 9mm pistol, two magazines, three rounds of ammunition, Myanmarese currencies and incriminating documents are recovered from possession of the slain militant.

The dead body of a Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (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.

March 4

Two militants, identified as Joseph Munda and George Ekka belonging to Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA), are shot dead by security personnel during a counter insurgency operation at Panjangaon of Naojan area in the Golaghat district.

March 5

Nine paramilitary personnel and the civilian driver of a convoy are wounded, as ULFA triggers an explosion at Jorkata Katgaon in the Dhemaji district. The convoy was completely damaged in the blast. Police recover some flexible wires and live 9 mm pistol ammunition from the incident site.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi informs the State Legislative Assembly that 459 persons had been killed and 1,350 injured in ULFA attacks from 2001 to February, 2007.

The CPI-ML cites a report stating that a section of Congress party leaders had connived with the UPDS and Black Widow militants in the November 22, 2006 abduction of its leader Laktook Phangcho, from Chirilangshu village near Umrangshu in the North Cachar Hills district, and his subsequent killing.

Telegraph reports that the railway project between Silchar and Lumding is stalled due to militant activity. Technical staff and labourers engaged by different civil engineering agencies refuse to work due to fear of the militants and the delay in completion of the projects has escalated the cost for the project from its originally-envisaged INR 648 crore to INR 1,462 crore.

March 6

19 persons including a college lecture are arrestred in connection with March 5 blast triggered by the ULFA injuring nine paramilitary personnel and one civilian in the Dhemaji district. "We have got some leads, but disclosing anything at this point of time will be premature," says the Superintendent of Police Mridulananda Sarmah.

March 7

Unidentified militants shot dead a person, Sukumar Pator, at unspecified place in the Tinsukia district.

Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain informs the State Legislative Assembly that as many as 87 persons including 83 civilians and four security force personnel were killed in militant violence in January, 2007. During the month, the militants belonging to the ULFA and Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) triggered 28 explosions in different parts of the State killing 12 civilians and four security force personnel. Minister says that 459 persons were killed and 1350 injured by the ULFA since 2001.

A militant leader of the ‘28th Battalion’ of the ULFA over telephone tells that the outfit was tired of waiting for the government to reciprocate the "goodwill gesture" of revoking the call for a boycott of the 33rd National Games. "We have been watching the government’s actions for about a month now and it is unfortunate that the people of the state are being harassed in the name of counter-insurgency operations. The blast with which we targeted a CRPF vehicle in Dhemaji district on Monday was just the beginning of a fresh round of attacks," says the militant.

March 8

One person, Gobind Maheswari, is killed and at least seventeen others, including six of the same family, are injured when suspected ULFA militants explode an improvised explosive device (IED) at Kakopathar Chariali in the Tinsukia district. Police said the bomb was kept in a bag at a hardware store near Kakopathar police station. The owner of the store, Ramesh Maheswari, spotted the bag resulting in the explosion. Subsequently, police recover another bomb weighing about 8 kilograms from the Gelgelipatti area of Kakopathar.

An ANLA militant, identified as Durgesh Tanti, who was arrested by Titabor police in the Jorhat district on March 5, confesses that cadres of the outfit receive arms and ammunition on hire from Naga associates. ANLA militants confine the persons abducted by them in Naga villages and hideouts, and give a part of extorted money to their Naga aides. According to police sources, ANLA has taken advantage of the difficult terrain on the border areas and has targeted mainly the tea industry.

March 10

Suspected ULFA militants kill a Panchayat (village level self-government body) president belonging to the Congress Party at Kulhati in the Kamrup district. Vehicle of Munin Bharali, Panchayat president of Hajo, is ambushed while going from Hajo to Guwahati. Bharali died on the spot.

March 10-11

An ‘area commander’ of the Black Widow, identified as Chinese Dimasa, is arrested from a hideout on the outskirts of Maibong town in the North Cachar Hills district. In separate search operations, two militants of the same outfit are arrested from a hotel in Guwahati and seven others are arrested from Pura Basti near Mahur town in the North Cachar Hills district.

March 12

Sentinel quoting intelligence source reports that the ULFA has planned a series of attacks on the eve of its ‘army day’ on March 16 to prove the military strength of the outfit. The report adds that 20 cadres of the outfit led by a militant, Biju Deka, entered into Dispur recently. The outfit has also planned to target select leaders of the Congress Party, mentions the report.

The NDFB refuses to submit the charter of demands as a precondition for initiating peace talks with the Union Government. The 'secretary-general' of the outfit, as saying, Basumatary alias B. Swmkhwr, says "It is difficult for us to accept this....If it is really interested in negotiations, the charter cannot be the precondition. Informal preliminary talks would have been more fruitful. That would have helped both the parties to know each other's stand and exchange opinions. That always eases the tension. The core issue could be taken up for discussion thereafter. The Centre knows that we have been fighting for the last 20 years for the liberation of the Bodos."

March 13

ULFA militant, Raghu alias Rintu Hajong, and three suspected linkmen of the outfit, identified as Nurmahammad Miyan, Mohammed Safiul Islam and Amzad Khan, are arrested by Army personnel in the Chirang district. A sophisticated revolver and two country-made rifles are recovered from their possession.

March 14

Two Black Widow militants are killed and 12 cadres of the outfit are arrested during counter insurgency operations in the North Cachar Hills district. The report adds that Jewel Gorlossa, the leader of the outfit, has taken shelter in the NSCN-IM camp at Dimapur in Nagaland. Militants of the Black Widow are operating under the leadership of the "commander-in-chief", Niranjan Hojai, in North Cachar Hills.

Militants of the NSCN-IM serve extortion notes to some State and Union Government offices in the North Cachar Hills district. The outfit also asks the contractors, traders, and the construction agencies, now engaged in conversion of the Silchar-Lumding metre gauge rail track into broad gauge, to pay ransom. According to intelligence agencies, 50 NSCN-IM cadres led by Simlaisang, a self-styled ‘major’ of the outfit’s armed wing, are operating in the district. While a self-styled ‘captain’ John Tangkhul is the "area commander" in Haflong town, ‘sergeant’ Angu Lotha is the ‘chief’ of the outfits’s Mahur unit. The extortion notes reportedly bear the initials of Tangkhul.

Two MULTA militants, Zilani Sheikh and Zahirul Ali, are arrested from Balajan Lalpura in the Dhubri district. A pistol and a bomb are recovered from them. He is reportedly involved in abductions and blasts.

An explosive weighing nearly 25 kilograms is recovered from Tanana Urang Basti under Kakopathar police station in the Tinsukia district on March 13- morning. The bomb is later defused by the security personnel.

The NDFB asks the Union Government to start informal talks with before the outfit submits its charter of demands.

March 15

One person is killed and five others are wounded in an explosion at Sonari town in the Sivasagar district. Police suspect the involvement of the ULFA in the attack.

The banned ULFA triggers a series of bomb blasts in different parts of Assam losing one of its cadres in the explosions and injuring 11 others besides blasting an oil pipeline.

Using 'tablet bomb', used by militants in Jammu and Kashmir, for the first time in Assam, ULFA-triggers the explosives concealed inside a cycle injuring four near a Shiva Temple under Moranhat police station.

A bomb is exploded near a bridge and another in the compound of the sub-divisional office in Demow town's Nitai Pukhuri area.

The ULFA explodes a bomb on a power transformer near Borigaon Chaiding railway crossing causing a five-feet crater on the ground in the Jorhat district.

A Numaligar Refinery Ltd oil pipeline is damaged in a bomb explosion near Amguri Railway Station in the Sonitpur district causing a major blaze. Elsewhere, an electric transformer is damaged. No casualties are reported in all these incidents.

March 16

One ULFA bomb expert, Bidyut Barua alias Reba Gogoi, is killed by police personnel at Naojan area. The encounter started when Reba Gogoi and three of his accomplices hurled a grenade to escape from the police who tried to stop them. Police recovered a US-made carbine, three powerful IEDs and some documents from the slain militant.

The ULFA militants trigger a blast at A.T. Road area in Guwahati injuring nine persons, including a woman and a teenager. 19 motorcycles and a scooter are also destroyed in the blast.

March 18

Two Muslim MULTA cadres, Rizaul Islam and Zamuruddin, are arrested by the Army personnel during a search operation at Madhusolmari near Gauripur in the Dhubri district.

March 19

One civilian is killed and two others are seriously injured in a grenade attack by the ULFA militants on a busy market in the heart of Nalbari town of the Nalbari district.

SFs arrested four-suspected ULFA militants identified as Rubul Saloi, Jitu Kalita, Dhaneswar Kumar and Pulak Das in the Baska district.

March 21

AR arrested one DHD cadre and sized a huge cache of arms including one AK-47 rifle, a US-made M-16 rifle, four Chinese rifles with bayonets, two bolt action rifles and one Chinese made automatic pistol along with live ammunition for all weapons from Silchar-Haflong in the Cachar District.

March 22

Dimasa militant outfit DHD held a two-day "Jatiya Mohasabha" (national conclave), which is joined by several political parties in appealing to both the Centre and the ULFA to sit for unconditional talks for a political settlement of the insurgency problem. The DHD ‘chairman’ Dilip Nunisa urged the Center to play the role of "guardian and big brother" and hold direct talks with the ULFA. He also appealed to the ULFA to authorise the five jailed leaders to hold negotiations with the Government.

March 26

Two civilians, identified as Dulal Baruah and Uma Shankar Tiwari, traveling in oil tankers on their way to Arunachal Pradesh are killed while two of their co-travelers, identified as Bhai Sonowal and Sarat Handique, are injured when unidentified assailants opened fire near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in the Tinsukia district. The police personal suspect the involvement of Naga militants in the incident, though the involvement of ULFA has not been ruled out either. Empty cartridges of AK-47 rifles are recovered from the incident site.

March 27

SFs arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Tarun Gogoi, from Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district.

In the same district, SFs arrested another suspected ULFA cadre, identified as Nirab Gogoi.

March 29

The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa rejected Assam government’s offer for "unconditional" talks on the peace initiative. Rajkhowa in a statement said accepting the offer of unconditional talks would be tantamount to surrendering the cause it has been fighting for. He further warned that the situation in the state would turn grave in the coming days.

March 30

SFs killed two ULFA cadres, identified as Himeswar Borsaikia alias Rameshwar Borsikia and Papu Moran, at Manabhum Reserve Forest in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

ULFA triggered a powerful bomb blast near a flyover in the Maligaon area of Guwahati city. However, no casualties are reported.

March 31

Two ULFA militants are killed and an army officer is wounded in an encounter at Godhabeel Cokolapathar village in the Sivasagar district.

April 2

In a counter-insurgency operation, security forces killed four ULFA cadres in the Udalguri district.

April 3

15 civilians sustained injuries in a ULFA triggered grenade attack at a marketplace in the Machkhowa area of Kamrup district.

April 8

A ULFA militant is killed and 14 civilians are injured when a bomb carried by two motorcycle borne ULFA militants exploded in the Kumarpara area of Guwahati city.

April 10

One ULFA cadre is killed by the army in an encounter at Moulongbasti under Ledo Police Station in the Tinsukia district.

SFs arrested three hardcore ULFA militants, Mridul Ali alias Manjit, Milon Deka and Sukra Deka Mentionably, and recovered three grenades, four detonators and some ammunition from an unspecified place in the Kamrup district.

April 19

Two Assam Police personnel are killed in an encounter with ULFA militants in the Golaghat district along the Assam-Nagaland border.

April 23

SFs killed three ULFA cadres, identified as Udhav Deka alias Sanjeeb Kalita, Parameswar Deka alias Mrigen Dutta and Ganesh Kalita alias Goutam Sarma, at Adingagiri Kalishola hillock along the Assam-Meghalaya border. They recovered one M-20 pistol, a grenade, five live cartridges, 500 grams of explosives, plastic jars and some incriminating documents from the incident site.

April 28

Police intercepted a vehicle and arrested three persons, including two ULFA militants, in the Jalukbari area of Guwahati city. The arrested ULFA militants included the organising secretary of the outfit's 28^th Battalion, Ananta Gogoi alias Sasanka Barua. Police recovered two M-20 pistols, four magazines, 180 rounds of AK-47 rifles, eight Austrian grenades, four-and-half kg of RDX, two switches of PTD from the vehicle.

April 30

A heavy exchange of fire occurred between the rival NSCN factions along the Assam-Nagaland border in the Tarani, Kalajan and Borgang areas of Dibrugarh district.

Police recovered two detonators and an equal number of crude bombs at Birubari in the Kamrup district.

May 1

A top ULFA leader, identified as Sanjay Siring, is killed in an operation carried out by the Army at Bisonimukh near Dibru Saikhowaghat in the Tinsukia district. A Chinese-made hand-grenade, a mobile phone set, some money and documents are recovered from the incident site.

Eight Adivasi National Liberation Army militants are arrested by the Police during a search operation at Salakati in the Kokrajhar district along with eight country-made rifles, one revolver, five pipe guns, various lethal weapons, ammunitions of SLR and gun powder.

May 2

A senior political leader belonging to Hagrama faction of the Bodoland People’s Progressive Party (BPPF-H), identified as Badan Hasda, is assassinated by suspected militants of the Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam at Jonagaon in the Kokrajhar district.

Police arrested Marjit Singh alias Thobal alias Ibuyama, the ‘general secretary’ of the Manipur-based United National Liberation Front (UNLF), during a search operation at Panjabari under Noonmati police station in Guwahati. INR 47 lakh, one laptop, one printer, one digital camera and several incriminating documents are recovered from his possession.

Three militants and a linkman belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are arrested from a hideout at Fancy Bazaar in Guwahati city. They were identified as Yumlembam Malam alias Ibotomba alias Keirangba, Yumlembam Bung alias Ratan alias Malem alias Malengbam, Nongmaithem Amuba alias Nelso, and Nongmaithem Norendra Sinha.

The newly released United States State Department’s ‘Country Report on Terrorism 2006’ designates the ULFA as a group of concern and prohibits the US residents from extending any material support to the outfit..

May 3

Three ULFA militants are killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Barkhajan village in the Nalbari District. Two of the them were identified as the ‘second lieutenant 709th battalion’ Chanakya Barman alias Khaplang and Pranab Kalita alias Jogesh Kalita alias Bastab.

ULFA detonated a bomb at the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown at Noonmati in Guwahati, injuring two FCI employees, identified as Ratneswar Rabha and Purna Sarma

May 4

Seven persons are injured when suspected ULFA militants exploded a bomb planted inside a vehicle along Chamber road in the Tinsukia district.

May 5

The ‘27^th Battalion Commander’ of ULFA, 'lieutenant' Bipul Choudhury, is killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Sunpurena in the Karbi Anglong district. Two of his associates, however, managed to escape during the encounter.

May 6

At least 19 people are injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered an IED planted on a motorbike near Hem Baruah Road in the Fancy Bazaar area of Guwahati.

May 7

An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the Army in the Tinsukia district.

Police arrest one ULFA militant, Nipen Baruah alias Montu, along with a Programmable Time Device weighing 4-kg from Mathgharia under Noonmati police station in Guwahati.

One hardcore ULFA militant, identified as Tarini Deka alias Imran, surrenders before the Army at Tamulpur Brigade along with a .38 revolver and some incriminating documents in the Nalbari district.

May 8

Villagers of Jalas in the Sivsagar district lynch to death one ULFA militant who was attempting to extort money along with three other cadres of the group. One more cadre is injured, while two others managed to escape from the incident site.

May 9

Buddheswar Moran, who is killed by the Army on suspicion of being a ULFA militant at Laopatty village under Doomdooma police station is a civilian, confirms the Army.

May 10

Suspected ULFA militants trigger an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in the Sanjeevani Diagnostic and Medical Centre at Amolapatty in the Sivasagar district injuring five people.

The police arrest two suspected ULFA supporters along with some explosives from the Panbazaar area in Guwahati city.

May 11

The ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa demanded the withdrawal of Army from the State. He also appealed to the people to intensify their agitation for withdrawing the Army to protect human rights of the people.

The ULFA detonates an explosion targeting a pipeline of the Assam Gas Company at Borhat in the Sivasagar district causing major damage to it.

May 13

Three civilians are killed in clashes between tea garden workers and the ULFA-backed protestors at Tiphuk in the Dibrugarh district. An indefinite curfew is clamped in the Doomdooma, Talap and Kakopathar areas. The protestors have been blocking the National Highway 37 since May 7 to protest against the "fake encounter" killing of one Budheswar Moran by the Army. The protestors were attacked by angry tea garden labourers as the continuing blockade has led to a crisis of food stuff in the tea garden areas.

May 14

The death toll at Doomdooma in the Dibrugarh district clashes increases to eight persons as five more succumb to injuries.

ULFA militants trigger a Percutaneous Thrombolytic Device (PTD), killing two people and injuring 11 persons near the Athgaon branch of the United Bank of India in Guwahati city.

May 15

The ULFA militants shot dead six unidentified Hindi-speaking people in various areas of the Dibrugarh and Sivsagar districts.

May 16

ULFA militants kill three civilians, Tankeswar Sahu, Dipak Agarwal and Srinath Agarwal, in the Golaghat district.

May 17

ULFA militants lynched to death a civilian, identified as Hemanta Gogoi, at Nao Meseki village under Dhola police station in the Tinsukia district suspecting him to be an Army informer.

May 18

Police personnel shot dead two unidentified ULFA militants near Kulsi River in the Chhaygaon area of Kamrup district. One militant who sustained injuries, however, managed to escape.

ULFA militants trigger an IED planted in a three-wheeler at Fancy Bazaar in the Guwahati city, injuring 20 people.

Police arrests Bikram Singh, a top ULFA cadre of the ‘27th battalion’, near Kamalpur area under Changsari police station in the Kamrup district.

May 20

Suspected Karbi Longri National Liberation Front militants abduct a civilian, identified as Nayan Das, from the Parakhowa area under Hawraghat Police Station of Karbi Anglong district.

The ULFA is reportedly carrying out a massive extortion drive especially against people belonging to Hindi-speaking community in various parts of Jorhat, Amguri, Sonari and Sivasagar through SMS (Short Message Service). The name of Ram Singh, commander of the ‘28 battalion’ of the ULFA, is written at the end of every SMS.

May 21

ULFA militants triggered a Programmable Timer Device planted on a bi-cycle at Paglasthan in the Bongaigaon district, injuring 15 people.

May 22

Dhrubajyoti Lahan alias Deepak, a ‘Sergeant’ of ‘28 Battalion’ of ULFA, is killed in an encounter with the security forces (SFs) at Singlopathar under Mathurapur police station in the Sivasagar district.

The ULFA military spokesman, Raju Baruah, threaten the SFs of ‘dire consequences’ if it continues to kill unarmed members of the outfit in ‘fake encounters’. He claimed that the recent killing of two ULFA militants at Chaygaon in the Kamrup district on May 18 is not a genuine encounter but a case of cold-blooded murder.

The SFs destroyed a transit camp of the Bravo Company of ULFA’s ‘28 battalion’, near the areas bordering Mon district of Nagaland. One universal machine gun, 130 rounds of ammunition, one grenade-launching gun, RDX, three coils of cordex, 50 detonators, two radio sets and incriminating documents are recovered from the incident site.

The chairman of the ex-Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) Welfare Society, Jonomohan Mushahary, warned the NDFB to stop fratricidal killings by targeting innocent Bodo youths and ex-BLT cadres and viewed it as beyond their tolerance. He also accused the NDFB of having no respect for cease-fire ground rules and doubted whether their command over the outfit is intact. He urged the joint monitoring group to look after NDFB’s activities following cease-fire to clarify whether the outfit is in favour of restoring peace in the area and maintaining ground rules for peaceful negotiations.

Three NDFB cadres, identified as Saikhong Brahma, Ranjan Basumatary and Maithang Basumatary, are arrested by the security forces from Dokmoka area under Howraghat Police Station in the Karbi Anglong district on May 23. Sources said that two of them are newly recruited cadres, which are a violation of the cease-fire ground rules.

May 24

Irate public lynch to death one suspected ULFA militants, identified as Budhe Dhadumia, at Pengeri and detained his associate at Hulunggutti village under Kakopathar Police Station in the Tinsukia district after the two militants shot dead one schoolteacher, identified as Rohini Gogoi, of the Kailashpur Lowyer Primary School.

Rathu Bodusa, an ‘area commander’ of the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD)-Nunisa faction, is killed by suspected cadres of the rival Jewel Garlosa faction at Block Bazaar under Doyangbra police outpost in the Karbi Anglong district.

May 25

One DHD militant, identified as Girifer Hojai alias Dimasa, is killed by militants of the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the DHD, at Forest Bagan under Umrangshu Police Station in the Karbi Anglong district.

The cease-fire between the Government of India and the NDFB is extended for another six months with effect from June 1.

Assam Police’s intelligence chief said that the ULFA is using young boys as its frontline strike force. The ULFA, under pressure from the counter-insurgency operations, is reported to have changed its strategy and has started recruiting young boys aged 14 to 19 - mostly school dropouts.

May 26

Seven persons are killed and 18 others injured in an explosion triggered by suspected ULFA militants in the Athgaon area of Guwahati city.

Security forces kill two unidentified ULFA militants in an encounter at Pub Boragaon area under Fatasil Ambari police station in Guwahati. Two other militants, however, managed to escape.

May 27

One civilian, identified as Kokil Haridas, injured in an explosion triggered by ULFA in Bongaigaon on May 21, succumbed to his injuries.

May 28

Mosorom Dimasa, a militant of the Black Widow, which is a break away faction of the Dima Halim Daogah (DHD), is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Haflong in the North Cachar district.

Police sources revealed that the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has been providing explosives to the ULFA to carry out subversive activities in public places. Police said that the explosives used by the ULFA are provided by the ISI and there are reasons to believe that the militants are triggering off blasts at the behest of foreign powers. Sources added that at least 20 ULFA militants are trained in Pakistan to handle sophisticated explosive devices. Seven of them were either killed or arrested. The ULFA triggered off 32 blasts in different parts of Assam in 2007 while the police managed to recover 66 bombs.

The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, said, "There are intelligence reports that ULFA camps are not only running, but also being nourished in Bangladesh." He informed that India has asked and was continuously putting pressure on the Bangladesh Government to keep a watch and contain the activities of the ULFA but accused it as "reluctant or weak to cooperate" with India in taking action against them.

May 29

One civilian, identified as Hira Taid, is killed in a crossfire between the security forces and the ULFA militants at Naharanibari village under Machkhowa Police Station in the Dhemaji district.

‘Major’ Raju Barua of the ULFA claimed that ''The ULFA has no direct or indirect links with the blasts in Guwahati or in extortions carried out at different places."

Vijay Gupta, the Vice-President of Kamrup Chamber of Commerce and a member of the recently formed Co-ordination Committee of Different Trade Associations and Chambers of Commerce (CCDTACC), accused the ULFA for designing a plan to replace the Hindi-speaking labourers with that of Bangladeshi migrants at the behest of the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in the State. He informed that "In 1960, around 10 per cent of the total populations in Guwahati are Hindi-speaking labourers. However, the current percentage of Hindi-speaking labourer population has gone down to mere 8 per cent, where it should have been increased."

May 30

One cadre of the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the Dima Halim Daogah (DHD), identified as ‘Sergeant’ Gale, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Hatikhali near Maibong area in the North Cachar hill district.

Two bullet-riddled bodies are recovered from Lombapathar, under Kheroni police station in the Karbi Anglong district. One of them was identified as Dauthau Dimasa of the Black Widow group.

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.

May 31

Police is reported to have submitted a report to the Assam Governor mentioning names of the four affluent businessmen and some professionals suspected to be ardent sympathisers and helpers of the ULFA. Official sources said that they are suspected to have acted as ULFA conduits or ‘rendered their services’ to the outfit. The police also found "substantial evidence" of ULFA’s link with the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the ISI and some fundamentalist organisations.

June 1

One ULFA associate, identified as Lankeshwar Sonowal, is arrested by the Army near Lankasi under Bordubi police station in the Tinsukia district. Sonowal confessed to have provided logistic support and helping the outfit in its extortion drives.

The Union Government extended the suspension of operations against the NDFB for six months- valid till November 30. The agreement for suspension of operations has been in force since June 1, 2005.

June 3

Four police personnel are killed and two others sustained injuries when Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants ambushed a police patrolling party at Koilajan area under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

One former cadre of the disbanded Bodoland Liberation Tigers (BLT), identified as Suresh Boro, is lynched to death by suspected NDFB militants at Merapani in the Golaghat district.

June 4

Suspected Black Widow militants, a breakaway faction of the Dima Halim Daoga (DHD), killed the former Chief Executive Member of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, Purnendu Langthasa and former executive member of the Council, Nindu Langthasa at Langlai Hasnu village in the NC Hills district. Both are the candidates of the Congress party for the upcoming Council election. The party alleged that the Militant group has been warning and demanding an amount of Rs one crore from the party for the safety of its candidates for the elections.

Suspected militants attacked the house of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Principal Secretary, Lonki Thangsu, at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district, without causing any damage.

May 5

Police arrested one unidentified Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) cadre from Fakiragram in the Kokrajhar district along with 3-kg of Improvised Explosive Device.

The United Liberation Front of Asom’s (ULFA) 28th battalion’s ‘communication officer’, Ghanakanta Bora alias Kabin Koirala alias Jagdish Phukan, and his wife ‘sergeant major’, Tulashi Buragohain alias Archana Phukan, surrender to the security forces at Laipuli Army camp in the Tinsukia district. Bora, one of the senior-most members of ULFA, joined the group in 1986. He was based in Nepal and had established a camp there to act as an interface between ULFA and the Maoists. He was also instrumental in establishing camps for the ULFA in Myanmar, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh's Lohit and Changlang districts and Assam's Sibsagar district.

Army sources revealed that the ULFA is setting up bases in Nepal and maintaining close links with the Maoist insurgents in that country. Sources said that after the ‘Operation All Clear’ in Bhutan in 2003, the outfit has moved to Myanmar but most of the top ULFA leaders are still based in Bangladesh. Around 150 cadres, including ULFA’s top leader Sashadhar Choudhury, are currently setting up camps in Nepal in areas like Sagarmatha, Sitwar, Solkhumbhu and also procured arms and ammunitions. The outfit has planned to move senior members of 27th battalion, 28th battalion and 709th battalion to Nepal, sources added.

June 6

Two unidentified militants of the KLNLF are killed in an encounter with the police at villages Sarpo Tisso and Mon Tokbi under Dillai out post in the Karbi Anglong district.

June 7

Two UPDS cadres, Tom Kro and Longroi Terang, are arrested at Rongkhelan under Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

Two militants belonging to the Birsa Commando Force, identified as Robert Tirkey of Nalbari and Aelious Mundu of Tezpur, are arrested at Sukanpukhuri in the Tinsukia district.

Two militants, identified as Zamkhokam and Thanko Pao, belonging to an unidentified group, are arrested by the police from Nagaon city in the Nagaon district along with 21 live cartridges of .303 rifle.

The Army arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Eman Ali, from Borbori village under Tamarhat Police station near Assam-Bengal border area in the Kokrajhar district along with 3-kg IED.

Unidentified militants abducted one schoolboy, identified as Rajat Agarwalla, of St Joseph’s High School from Panigash area of Towkok under Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district.

June 8

Police sources said that the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the DHD, is trying to extend its area of operation to the northeastern flank of neighbouring Cachar district. Sources also revealed that nearly two dozen people living in the Harinagar and Jaipur enclaves along Cachar’s northeastern boundary with North Cachar had received extortion notices. The notices, either sent by post or hand-delivered, demand amounts between INR 50,000 and INR 5 lakh. The residents have been also threatened with dire consequences if they fail to pay the said amount.

Intelligence reports reveals that over 20 jihadi groups, including the Adam Sena, Muslim Tigers’ Force, Revolutionary Muslim Commandos, United Muslim Front of Assam, Islamic United Reformation Movement of India, Islamic Sevak Sangha, Muslim Security Force, Muslim Liberation Army of Assam, United Liberation Militia of Assam, Muslim Security Council of Assam, Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Harkat-ul-Jehad and People’s United Liberation Front (PULF), have been active in Assam. Activists of these organizations have been taking shelter in the border areas, seminaries, mosques and other religious minority-dominated areas in the State.

June 9

Security Forces arrested two senior ULFA members, ‘2nd Lt.’ Dibakar Moran alias Robin Baruah and his wife Barkha Deori alias Meghali, in the Tinsukia district. Dibakar is a senior member of ULFA’s 28th Battalion joined the outfit in 1989.

June 11

Four hardcore militants of the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the DHD, identified as ‘Lt. Corporal’ Pradesh Thaosen and his associates Manjit Langthasa, Piten Thaosen and Niben Langthasa, are arrested by the Assam Rifles personnel from Bhuban Pahar in the North Cachar Hills district. They were reportedly involved in the June 4-killing of Purnendu Langthasa, Chief Executive Member of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, and his colleague Nindu Langthasa. Police also recovered one AK 47 rifle, one AK 56 rifle, two self-loading rifles, one rocket launcher and INR 80 lakhs from their hideout at Nayanpur in the same district.

Police sources revealed that the NCSN-IM is extending support to different militant outfits in the North Cachar Hills district, including the Black Widow group. The outfit is providing weapons, training and giving shelter to the cadres in its camps. It is suspected that the NSCN-IM also receives a share of extorted funds collected by the Black Widow group.

June 12

The Union Government has set three conditions to resume the stalled peace initiative with the ULFA. These include a direct communication from the outfit's top leadership indicating their willingness to talk with the government, the presence of emissaries of the either side in the talks and to facilitate meetings with the detained leaders in jail along with a safe passage to sweeten the deal. M. K. Narayanan, the National Security Advisor, conveyed these conditions to Indira Goswami, the chief mediator of ULFA. Goswami, leading a delegation of the Nagrik Shanti Manch Asom, met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on June 11 to discuss the restarting of peace talks with the ULFA.

Suspected ULFA militants triggered an IED blast at Bullut weekly market under Hajo police station in the Kamrup district, killing two civilians and injuring 40 others.

Police personnel shot dead one ULFA militant, identified as Deepjyoti Kalita alias Paul, at Nabin Nagar area in the Guwahati city.

June 14

Security forces (SFs) arrested three militants of the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the DHD, identified as Anglong Manin, Zintus Marak and Walsong Manglong, from Hotel Ambassador at Paltan Bazaar in Guwahati. One car and a motorcycle are also seized from them.  

Police arrested three persons, Madhuram Deka, Kishor Das and Ganesh Thakuria, in connection with June 13 blast at Hajo in the Kamrup district. Sources said that Ganesh Thakuria is a relative of the ULFA’s ‘Foreign Secretary’, Sashadhar Choudhury. 

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 156 insurgency-related incidents took place in Assam between January 1, 2007, and March 31, 2007, where the ULFA has carried out 68 attacks in upper Assam between January 1, 2007, and June 10, 2007, killing 81 civilians, 11 soldiers. Since September 24, 2006, the Army also managed to kill 19 ULFA militants along the Arunachal Pradesh belt, and arrested 14 militants and 31 over-ground workers. Sources said that the ULFA lost several cadres in the recent operations like Operation Blazing Khukri and Operation Blooming Orchid. After the operation in Bhutan in 2003, 1,500 sq km of Manabhum forest in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district has emerged as the outfit’s main area of operation. Presently, around 100 women cadres are reportedly being trained in fresh camps set up by the group inside Bhutan.

June 15

Security forces killed an unidentified Dima Halim Daogah militant at Maibong in the North Cachar Hills district.

Unidentified militants shot at and injured a SULFA cadre, identified as Dimbeswar Deka alias Daso Dutta alias Daju Sonowal, at Rampur village in the Kamrup district.

June 16

Suspected ULFA militants shot dead one SULFA cadre, identified as Rinku Choudhury, near Dispur in the Guwahati city.

June 19

Two CRPF personnel are killed and five other security force personnel are injured in an ambush by suspected cadres of the ULFA and KLNLF at Samelangshu area under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district. The militants ambushed the joint patrol of police and CRPF team led by the Karbi Anglong Superintendent of Police.

Nonphong, a ‘corporal’ of the Black Widow, a breakaway faction of the DHD, is killed during clashes between the two factions of the outfit at Harangajao in the North Cachar Hills district. Nonphong had deserted the Dilip Nunisa faction and joined the Black Widow faction in 2006.

SFs arrested two militants of ULFA’s 27 battalion, Joni Pathak alias Tilak Boro and Krishna Borah, from the Nagaon district and claimed to have neutralized a plan to disrupt the Asian Grand Prix Games, which is scheduled to commence in Guwahati on June 23. SFs also seized 1.5 kg of explosives, two detonators and a battery with a timer from the arrested militants.

Three unidentified ULFA militants set ablaze a mini truck carrying 1,000 kilograms of freshly-plucked tea leaves at Pulungajan under Pengari police station in the Tinsukia district. However no causalities are reported.

June 20

A group of top surrendered ULFA cadres reportedly asked the ULFA not to target its activists and warned them that they would compelled to take ‘appropriate position’ if they indulge in violence against them. The surrendered-ULFA men also asked the Government to provide adequate safety to them.

Robin Dhekial Phukan, a local correspondent of the vernacular daily Asomiya Pratidin, and Lalan Moran, Assistant General Secretary of the Assam Students and Youth Forum, are arrested by the Assam Police from the Tinsukia district on charges of maintaining close links and working on behalf of the ULFA. The police alleged that both are involved in supplying mobile SIM cards to ULFA cadres operating in the eastern Assam districts.

June 23

Six persons, including three children, are killed and 14 others injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered an explosion in front of a mosque at Machkhowa in the Guwahati city.

The Army arrested 13 suspected ISI agents from the North Cachar district. Phones and incriminating documents were seized from the possession of the 13 persons, who are suspected of having links with fundamentalist elements in the UAE, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Police arrested four businessmen, Pradip Kumar Khandelia, Manik Chand Kedia, Radheshyam Sharma and Bikash Agarwalla, for their suspected links with the ULFA in the Sivasagar district.

June 24

The All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) headed by Nirmal Tarki is reportedly indulging in an extortion drive in the tea estates along the Assam-Nagaland border. The outfit was reportedly formed in 2004 in the Karbi Anglong district to further the causes of the Adivasi community, including their demand for a Scheduled Tribe status in the district. The total strength of the outfit is estimated to be around 150, some of whom are armed with sophisticated weapons like AK series Rifles, carbines, pistols, SLRs, etc. The outfit reportedly has a nexus with the NSCN-K, which provided weapons to its cadres. The AANLA is also maintaining ties with the KRA.

Intelligence sources reported that a six–member Jihadi group has entered the Guwahati city to carry out subversive activities during the Ambubachi Mela starting from June 22 at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati.

June 25

The Army raided a UNLF hideout near Lediachera in the Lakhipur subdivision of the Cachar district and seized two AK-47 rifles and a grenade launcher. The UNLF, which is reportedly keeping a low profile in the Meitei-dominated Lakhipur area, had been regrouping its cadre after a recruitment drive in both Manipur and Assam’s Cachar district.

June 26

Two bombs exploded at Gouripur area in the Dhubri district without causing any causality. While the first blast occurred at civilian Pradip Saha’s house at 2 PM, the other blast occurred near the house of another civilian, identified as Kanailal Jain.

A journalist, identified as Chandan Phukan, surrendered to the police following media reports about his involvement with the ULFA.

June 29

Assam Police arrested five hardcore ULFA militants and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Murkuchiapara village in the Baksa district. They were identified as Monu Das alias Jitu, an IED expert, Madan Rajbongshi, Pankaj Rajbongshi alias Bipul, Pradeep Barman and Harmohan Saud alias Bikash.

June 30

Four persons are killed and at least 40 others injured in four bomb blasts – three in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district and one in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. Three persons are killed in two successive bomb blasts at a fish market and a textile market in the Tinsukia town. 12 persons are injured in another blast that occurred, almost simultaneously, in front of a cinema hall at Doomdooma town. One woman is killed and seven persons are injured when suspected KLNLF militants lobbed a grenade in the marketplace at Diphu.

The dead body of P. C. Ram, the Executive Director (North East) of the FCI, is found buried near the Mora-Pagladiya River in the Anandapur area under Borbori police station in the Baksa district. He was abducted by the ULFA from Guwahati city on April 17.

July 1

Police arrested two ULFA cadres, Mrigen Das and Naba Deka, suspected to be involved in the June 23-Machkhowa blast, from an unspecified location in the Guwahati city on July 1. Elsewhere in the Guwahati city, police arrested two suspected ULFA linkmen, identified as Majid Rahman and Tajkia Rahman.

July 3

Six unidentified Adivasi militants, including a woman, are arrested from the Golaghat district while coming from the neighbouring State of Nagaland.

July 4

Five unidentified civilians, including two women, are injured when a bomb exploded at Soniram Bora Road in the Guwahati city.

Police arrested three UPDS cadres, Detward Bey, Sekhan Signar and Rajen Engti, from Dokmoka in the Karbi Anglong district.

Assam Police arrested two militants of an unidentified faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, identified as Kuato Intro and Hawai Zolang, from Ledo bus stop in the Tinsukia district.

July 5

Three civilians, Sarabat Ali, Min Bahadur Chetri and Kamal Bahadur Chetri, are killed when hundreds of armed Naga people, reportedly backed by the NSCN (IM), attacked three villages - Sonapur, Borholla and Dhekiajuli - on the Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district. The mob set ablaze a number of houses and destroyed seven hectares of tea plantations in the district.

July 9

Police arrested four suspected AANLA cadres, identified as Ajit Toppo alias Boga, Asao Bardhia, Linus Milj and Ganesh Rama, along with one Italian made 9-mm pistol and 10 rounds of ammunition from Bimalapur under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district.

Asom Lion Force, a new militant outfit, has been reportedly formed by some youths belonging to all Northeastern states in Karbi Anglong district. Aniruddha Barphukan, a self-styled secretary of the outfit, in a statement said the group had been formed to "further strengthen" the liberation movement in the North East. Barphukan has demanded an immediate halt on all "occupational and allied activities" by the Government and called upon the people to boycott all Indian functions and honour their own culture.

July 10

Two ULFA militants, including one identified as Samiran Barman alias Jiban Medhi of Baganpara village in Baksa district, are killed in an encounter with the SFs at Thankuchi village under Ghograpar Police Station in the Nalbari district. One AK-56 Rifle with 51 live ammunition and two magazines, one 9-mm revolver with six rounds of live ammunition and one magazine, three Chinese hand-grenades, 15 empty cartridges of AK-56 rifle, INR 5,000 in cash and a mobile phone handset are recovered from the slain militants.

July 11

The death toll in the ULFA-triggered blast at Tinsukia fish market on June 28 goes up to four with one more wounded civilian, identified as Raju Rai, succumbing to his injuries.

July 12

The abducted FCI official, P. C. Ram, is killed after being caught in an encounter between the SFs and a group of ULFA militants at Borka-Panitema village in the Kamrup district. The slain militants are identified as Rahul Deka alias Montu Gogoi alias Gautam Sarania, a ‘Sergeant Major’ of the ULFA’s 28^th battalion hailing from Nalbari district, and Bullet Sangma of Naokata under Goreswar town. Police seized two AK-56 rifles, a pistol, a grenade, an improvised explosive device and a huge amount of ammunition from the slain militants.

SFs arrested three persons, including Shyamal Sarma, the secretary of the Darrang district unit of Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS), from Morajan under Rangiya town. Police also recovered five kilograms of RDX, eight grenades and eight programmable time device switches from them. They are arrested while ferrying the arms smuggled from Bangladesh meant to be used by the ULFA. Police said that Sarma’s arrest has depicted the involvement of MASS and other organizations - like the People’s Committee for Peace Initiatives in Assam and the Asom Chatra Yuva Organisation - of having links with ULFA.

Assam police recovered the dead body of a ULFA linkman, identified as Umesh Rajbongshi, from Dora Kohara area under Kamalpur police station in the Kamrup district. He had been hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants and his body is found dumped near the railway track at Dora Kohara.

July 13

Two ULFA cadres, including the bodyguard of ULFA’s ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Paresh Barua, surrendered at Gillapukhuri Army camp in the Tinsukia district along with one pistol, two magazines, two grenades, four detonators, explosive and ammunition of AK-47. They are identified as Babul Chetia alias Bijoy Singh and Biju Gogoi alias Rupantar Gogoi, who are trained in Myanmar.

Security forces recovered four country-made rifles, an Italian-made pistol and some ammunition from the Kachugaon and Sialmari villages under Serfanguri Police Station in the Kokrajhar district.

Police arrested one KLNLF linkman, identified as Kamsing Tisso, from Kanjukathai near Bakalia under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district. Sources revealed that Tisso has been involved actively in extortion activities on behalf of the outfit.

July 14

Police recovered the dead body of a civilian, identified as Ibrahim Ali, from Fakirganj police station in the Dhubri district. Ali is abducted by the suspected MULTA militants one and half month before.

Police arrested Kamini Deka, Chitra Deka and Srimati Deka, the daughters of Govinda Deka, a civilian who sheltered abducted FCI official - P C Ram along with two ULFA militants at his home. The three women are arrested for interrogation to ascertain under what circumstances the ULFA cadres, with Ram in their custody, took shelter in their house. They will also be questioned as to why they failed to inform police when the ULFA men took shelter in their home.

July 15

Suspected KLNLF militants abducted Kailash Jha, a senior official, and Madan Kumar Bora, security officer, of the public sector undertaking Cement Corporation of India from Dilai in the Karbi Anglong district. Bora was released subsequently.

Security forces recovered two IEDs, each weighing 13 kilograms, one two-inch mortar and a wireless set from a forest under Chauraibari village in the Karimganj district. Police suspect that the arms are hidden by the NLFT.

July 16

Police recovered the dead body of Kailash Jha, the Earth Quarry Manager of public sector undertaking Cement Corporation of India (CCI) from Sonapahar cement quarry at Dillai in the Karbi Anglong district. Sources said that Jha is a heart patient and died of cardiac arrest minutes after his abduction.

July 12

Assam police recovered the dead body of a ULFA linkman, identified as Umesh Rajbongshi, from Dora Kohara area under Kamalpur police station in the Kamrup district. He had been hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants and his body found dumped near the railway track at Dora Kohara.

Police arrested Kamini Deka, Chitra Deka and Srimati Deka, the daughters of Govinda Deka, a civilian who sheltered the abducted Food Corporation of India official P. C. Ram along with two ULFA militants at his home. Ram and the two militants were killed in crossfire between the police and ULFA militants in Deka’s home at Borka Panitema village in the Kamrup district.

July 15

Police recovered the dead body of Kailash Jha, the Earth Quarry Manager of public sector undertaking Cement Corporation of India, from Sonapahar cement quarry at Dillai in the Karbi Anglong district. Jha was abducted earlier in the day by the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front militants along with his security officer, Madan Kumar Bora, from the same area. Bora was released subsequently. Sources said that Jha was a heart patient and died of cardiac arrest minutes after his abduction.

July 18

SFs arrested two KLNLF militants, Jony Thokbi and Son Timung, following an operation at Gautam Basti near Khatkati under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

SFs recovered 95 rounds of live ammunition of AK 47 rifle and INR 83,000 in cash from a rented house of former Assam Gana Parishad legislator Rajendra Mushahary at Rukminigaon in the Guwahati city. Sources revealed that Mushahary maintains close links with the NDFB.

July 19

Two cadres of the 28th battalion of the ULFA, Polash Rajbonshi and Bhaskar Barua, are killed by SFs at Kailashpur Simaluguri village under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district.

A woman is injured when a bomb planted by unidentified militants exploded near Udalguri railway station in the Udalguri district of North Asom.

Four unidentified militants belonging to KLNLF are arrested from Dhansiri under Diphu subdivision in the Karbi Anglong district along an unspecified number of arms.

July 20

Five civilians, including a four-year-old child, are killed and 18 others injured when suspected ULFA and KLO militants triggered a powerful bomb at Srirampur Chariali under Tamarhat police station in the Kokrajhar district.

July 21

At least two militants of the Dilip Nunisa faction of the DHD, identified as Rocket Dimasa and Samir Khersa, are killed and another, Banesa Langthasa, sustained gunshot injuries when the rival Jewel Gorlosa faction cadres, also known as the Black Widow, clashed with them at a jungle near Lallongcherra village in the Silchar district.

One unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Chaygaon area in the Kamrup district.

July 22

SFs arrested one ULFA cadre from the weekly market at Barama in the Nalbari district and recovered three grenades from his possession.

July 23

SFs shot dead one unidentified ANLA militant in an encounter at Neperpatti under Sarupathar police station in the Golaghat district. The other militants, however, managed to escape.

July 24

Three unidentified members of the Black Widow group were killed in an internecine clash between rival groups of the DHD - Black Widow and the Nunisa faction, near a designated camp at Pathergaon under Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

July 25

Police arrested two agents of the ISI, (Pakistan’s external intelligence agency), identified as Malazuddin Mandal and Surat Mandal, from Kathalguri in the Kokrajhar district.

July 30

SFs, during a search operation in two remote villages under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district, recovered 25 kilograms of explosives.

August 1

Suspected militants abducted Aniruddha Tanti, Assistant Manager of the Hirajui Tea Estate, from Dhekiajuli area in the Sonitpur district. Aniruddha is the son of Bhimananda Tanti, a former legislator from Rangapara constituency in the Sonitpur district.

The cease-fire agreement between the UPDS and Union Government has been extended for another six months, beginning from August 1.

August 2

Five suspected militants abducted and later shot dead an unidentified civilian at Dengaon Bazaar under Howraghat police station in the same district.

August 3

A group of suspected ULFA and KLNLF militants shot dead one civilian, Shatrughan Pandey, at Dergaon market under Howraghat Police Station in the Karbi Anglong district.

Suspected militants of the Black Widow shot dead a civilian, Shikari Teron, at Kumilangtuk near Umrangso in the North Cachar Hills District.

August 4

Police personnel shot dead two unidentified Adivasi National Liberation Army militants in an encounter at Kabir Dharma Nagar under Bakalia police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

August 5

11 civilians are injured in a ULFA-triggered improvise explosive device blast near Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district.

Four civilians are injured in an explosion that occurred in front of the Assam State Trading Corporation bus depot in Sivasagar district.

Three civilians are injured in another bomb blast at Agiapara evening market in the Goalpara district.

One unidentified ULFA cadre is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Dhantola village under Nalbari police station in the Nalbari district.

A civilian, Sushil Agarwalla, sustained injuries when suspected ULFA militants fired at a hotel at Sunpura in the Tinsukia district.

August 6

The ULFA, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and United Muslim Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) are among nine extremist groups currently active in Assam, the Assam Government informed the Legislative Assembly. The Assam Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain, replying on behalf of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, stated that apart from the nine outfits, the NSCN-IM too is involved in killing people in the State. The minister also informed that 39 members of different outfits, excluding the HuM and MULTA, had been killed by security forces in the state between January 2006-7. The outfits together have killed 1,363 people since Gogoi took over as Chief Minister in May 2001.

August 7

Suspected Black Widow militants shot dead four civilians, Ashok Das, Santosh Mahato, Manna Dey and Bidhu Das, at Harinagar market under Joypur police station in the Dibrugarh district.

Three civilians, Ajit Bora, Debo Bora and Pranjal Gogoi, are killed and eight others injured when ULFA militants triggered an explosion in front of the Jorhat police station in the Jorhat district.

A bomb planted by the ULFA militants in a dust bin near Kamrupa Hotel at Ganeshguri Chariali in the Guwahati city exploded injuring two civilians.

Two civilians sustained injuries when a grenade exploded in a scrap metal shop at Rampur chowk under Mukalmua police station in the Nalbari district.

August 8

Nine civilians, including four women and three children, were killed and five others injured when a group of ULFA and KLNLF militants opened indiscriminate fire targeting the Hindi-speaking people at Ampahar Basti village under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

Two civilians are wounded when suspected ULFA militants triggered an explosion at Anandapur Tiniali under Dispur police station in the Guwahati city.

One civilian, Pranab Moran, is injured when suspected ULFA militants fired four rounds on him at his residence-cum-shop in Kheroni village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

The Black Widow militants opened fire at a designated camp of the DHD in Haflong in the North Cachar Hills district.

August 9

A group of suspected ULFA militants shot dead one surrendered ULFA cadre, Pranab Moran, at Jutulbari village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

Security forces killed one ULFA cadre, Kumud Borah alias Jaykanta Moran alias Gondhia, at Bordubi Tea Estate under Doomdooma Police station in the Tinsukia district.

Suspected militants triggered an explosion at the Lalpani Power Grid, which connects the power line of Manipur, at Lalpani in the Cachar district. Police, meanwhile, recovered three bombs from the same area.

The Assam Adivasi National Liberation Army militants released the abducted tea executive, Anniruddha Tanti, from Hirajuli Tea Estate under Dhekiajuli police station in the Sonitpur district. The tea estate executive, son of a senior Congress Party leader and former legislator Bhimananda Tanti, was abducted on July 31-night. The abductors reportedly demanded INR 30 lakh as ransom for his safe release.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while responding to the opposition's demand for resumption of talks with the ULFA, agreed to release jailed ULFA leaders for peace, only if they come forward and talk to the government directly. "I am ready to release the ULFA leaders from jail but, not without a condition. They should come for direct talks," Gogoi said. He added the Centre would not agree to sovereignty as a pre-condition for talks with the ULFA.

August 10

A group of 10-15 suspected ULFA and KLNLF militants attacked a village at Dolamara in the Karbi Anglong district and shot dead 11 Hindi-speaking migrant workers. The dead include four women and two children belonging to two families originally hailing from the State of Bihar.

A two-year old child, Kamesh Mesh, is killed and nine other civilians are injured when suspected KRA militants hurled two grenades at Sukanjan under Bokajan police station.

14 persons, including five security force personnel, are wounded when a bomb exploded near a fish market in Diphu town, the headquarters of Karbi Anglong district.

Assam Police shot dead one ULFA militant, Jiten Sarania of Baska district, in an encounter at Hengerabari in the Guwahati city. However, two of his associates managed to escape in an injured condition.

Five militants of the Hmar Peoples’ Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) were arrested from P. Leikual village under Mahur police station in the North Cachar Hills district.

Suspected Karbi militants kill four college students, Chandra Sekhar Sharmah, Rajib Bhooban Sharmah and Mohabir Swami of JDSG College and Munny Kumari of Indira Gandhi National Open University, at Dolamara and Rongbong Ghat areas in the Karbi Anglong district.

August 11

Two more civilians succumbed to their injuries raising the death toll to 14 in the ULFA and KLNLF-joint attack at Rongteron village under the Bokajan Police Station on August 10.

Suspected ULFA militants hurled a hand grenade targeting security forces at Borhat under Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar district. However no causalities are reported.

August 12

Suspected KLNLF militants shot dead six civilians and injured two others at two different places in the Karbi Anglong district. Four civilians, Mahabir Swami, Nandalal Swami, Sila Gupta and Mohan Kanu, are shot dead by the KLNLF militants at Rongbonghat village under Bokajan police station. Two other civilians, Kanhaiyala Swami and Ramesh Swami, sustained injuries in the attack. Similarly, two more Hindi-speaking Bihari migrants, Suraj Sahani and Nanu Satnami, are killed at Parokhowa bazaar under Howraghat police station.

According to intelligence sources, ULFA is targeting the Hindi-speaking people at the diktat of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, and jihadi forces. The group is being assisted by the KLNLF which has well-equipped bases in the hill district.

August 13

Police personnel killed two unidentified KNLNF militants at Mouzadar Basti in the Karbi Anglong district.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, in a Unified Command Structure meeting held at Guwahati, asked the security forces to dismantle all camps of the ULFA and KLNLF from Karbi Anglong district to put an end to the current killings of the Hindi-speaking people.

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."

August 14

The Deputy Inspector General (Central Range) of Assam Police, L.R. Bishnoi, stated, "The proscribed ULFA is providing logistic support, mainly in the form of providing arms and ammunition, to the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) in carrying out the recent orgy of violence which has seen more than 30 Hindi-speaking people gunned down by the Karbi militant outfit." He disclosed that the ULFA had set up two base camps at Shingasan range and Deopani hill and a transit camp at Samelangso in the Karbi Anglong district. A 100-member group of the ULFA is providing support to the KLNLF, he added.

The BSF during a meeting with the BDR authorities refute claims by the latter that militant outfits have no bases in the Sylhet division. Commander of the BDR’s Sylhet division, Col. Abul Hossain, claimed that not a single militant camp of the outfits operating in India’s northeast existed in the Sylhet division. Sources from the BSF as well as an intelligence agency in the Cachar district said that as many as 25 training camps were still in existence in the area, with the full knowledge of the authorities in Bangladesh. Outfits operating the camps are the ULFA, the HNLC and the NLFT-Biswamohan Debbarma. ULFA has six such training camps at Rajghat and Ramnagar Tetultala in the Moulvi Bazaar district, Nushirapunji and Islampur in Sylhet district and Jagadishpur and Saidpur in Habiganj district.

August 15

Suspected militants trigger four explosions in the Dhubri and Bongaigaon districts during the Independence Day celebration. However, no causalities were reported. Police sources said that two bombs planted near a pond exploded at Gauripur in the Dhubri district. Separately, two bombs exploded at Bongaigaon town in the Bongaigaon district, minutes after the Education Minister Ripun Bora unfurled the national flag.

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.

August 19

An unidentified militant belonging to the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front was killed in an encounter with security force personnel at Borlangfar under Diphu police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

An unidentified Adibashi National Liberation Army militant is shot dead by police personnel at unspecified place under Sarupathar police station in the Golaghat district. However, three other militants managed to escape from the incident site.

August 20

Two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants hurl a grenade in front of a commercial building at Moran town in the Sivasagar district. No casualty was reported.

NSCN-IM militants serve an extortion note on the manager of a tea estate at Namtola in the same district.

August 21

Addressing the media in New Delhi, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the ULFA has set up camps in Meghalaya along the India -Bangladesh border. He says, "The ULFA extremists often commit crime in Asom and slip over to Meghalaya or Bangladesh… Meghalaya is used as a safe passage or corridor by the rebels… What is now needed is a coordinated approach of all the NE state governments to take on the ultras while keeping the door open for the talks."

Unidentified militants hurl a grenade at the residence of a Hindi-speaking school teacher, Ranjit Prasad Gupta, at Natun Bazaar Pukhuripur in the Hojai town of Nagaon district. While no casualty is reported, a septic tank is damaged.

August 23

A school teacher, Mannan Hussain, is shot dead by two unidentified militants of the Black Widow at Dibara in the North Cachar Hills district.

Black Widow militants kill a cadre of the Nunisa faction of the DHD, identified as Lal Khelma, in an internecine clash at his residence near Umrangsu town in the North Cachar Hills district.

An unidentified ULFA militant is killed at Chagolia Part-II village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district. One villager, Prasanna Roy, is also injured in the encounter.

August 24

A self-styled ‘corporal’ of the 28 Battalion of ULFA, identified as Sunil Gogoi alias Gomen Moran alias Lombu, surrenders at the Army headquarters in the Dibrugarh district.

August 25

Six suspected ULFA linkmen are arrested by SFs from Lahowal in the Dibrugarh district. Another ULFA linkman, Rinku Das, is arrested from Disangmukh village in the Sivsagar district.

August 26

A manager of a rubber garden, identified as Ravindra Sinha, who was abducted by suspected militants from Narayanpur area in the Karimganj district on August 22, is rescued by SF personnel from Shivbari locality at Duhaliya Hills. He is the younger brother of Kartik Sena Sinha, the Legislator representing Patharkandi constituency.

August 27

Two ULFA cadres, Chandra Deuri alias Deep and Bipul Sarania alias Pritam, are arrested during a search operation at Dakshin Birikhana area under Sarbhong police station in the Barpeta district.

Five ULFA cadres, identified as Manab Gogoi alias Putul Daimary, Bhogeswar Bora alias Debojit Bora alias Bhaiti, Rituparna Bora alias Abhinabha Saikia, Nipun Sonowal alias Pankaj Bora and Naren Kachari alias Narsen Rongpi, surrendered at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Golaghat district.

August 28

Suspected KLNLF militants triggered an explosion at the residence of Assam Hills Area Development Minister Khorsingh Engti at Hauraghat in the Karbi Anglong district. While no casualty is reported, the building was partially damaged in the incident.

One ‘commander’ of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, Champak Sarma alias Ranjan, is killed by SFs in an encounter at Boragog village in the Kamrup district. While one SF personnel is wounded during the exchange of fire, one militant managed to escape from the incident site. A villager, Rupeshwar Deka, along with his family members is arrested for giving shelter to Ranjan and one of his accomplices in their residence.

Assam Police personnel arrested six persons, Amar Das, Dilip Barman, Umesh Rajbongshi, Tapan Rajbangshi, Dipak Bhuyan and Binay Barman, in connection with the August 25-abduction of Bhagawan Das, a junior engineer of Paschim Nalbari development block in the Nalbari district.

August 30

Security forces killed two KLNLF militants, ‘sergeant major’ Dimapur Bey and ‘lance corporal’ Harbaman, at Timung village in the Rongapara area under Howraghat police station of Karbi Anglong district.

In an encounter at Motir Patti village under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district, troops killed Tapan Rai, a bomb expert of the ULFA.

August 31

SFs, acting on specific information about a likely weapons deal between the Manipur-based KRA and the ULFA at Laharijan under Bokajan police station of the Karbi Anglong district, arrested four militants on the National Highway-39. They were identified as Babul Baruah alias Prakash Baruah alias Kokai, a self-styled sergeant of ULFA’s 27^th battalion, Lung Min Thang, a cadre of KRA, Mannar Khan, an arms dealer and Abu Shama Ali. The Army recovered a 7.65 mm pistol with a magazine filled with four live rounds from their possession.

September 1

One person is killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a suspected ULFA-triggered explosion in the Bamunimaidan locality in Guwahati.

Four suspected ULFA militants are arrested from a bus, plying from Simlaguri in Barpeta district to Guwahati, near Rangia along with three IEDs.

SFs arrested seven persons from several places in the Tinsukia district for having links with the ULFA. SFs recovered five kilograms of RDX from the residence of one of them.

September 2

Police personnel arrested three persons, Champak Barman, Biswajeet Deka and Bhagawan Barman, from the Guwahati city in connection with the Bamunimaidam bomb blast on September 1. Bhagawan Barman is the owner of the van in which the IED is planted while the other two are his associates.

Two militants belonging to the Assam Tiger Force, Moina Hazarika and Ghana Konwar, are arrested in connection with the bomb blast at Merapani town on September 1-evening.

Police personnel arrested two persons from Basugaon in the Kokrajhar district for their alleged role in an extortion racket run by a new organization, the National Bodo Liberation Front in the BTC area, especially in the districts of Kokrajhar and Chirang. The organization reportedly asked for INR 2 million from the Ranikhata branch of the State Bank of India.

September 3

SFs arrested two KLNLF militants, Robinson Hanse and Labiram Kramsa, from Samelangso area under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

September 4

Kamaleswar Das, who is allegedly involved in the September 1-bomb blast triggered by the ULFA at Bamunimaidam in Guwahati city, is arrested from Kumarikata in the Nalbari district. His accomplice, Joon Jyoti Sarma, reportedly surrendered at the Dispur police station.

SFs arrested one suspected NDFB cadre, Rubul Lahiri, from Fatasil Ambari area in the Guwahati city.

September 5

Police personnel arrested three persons, Rajib Das, Dhanesh Barman and Prasanta Saha, from an unspecified location in the Gauripur town of Dhubri district, in connection with the June 27 and August 15 bomb blasts.

Security forces arrested three unidentified cadres of the NSCN-IM, NDFB and KLNLF during three raids in the Karbi Anglong district.

September 6

14 cadres belonging to the 28^th and 709^th battalions of the ULFA surrendered before the Inspector General of Police in Guwahati.

Bhagawan Das, a junior engineer of Paschim Nalbari Development Block, who was abducted from the Nalbari district on August 25, is released by the ULFA militants near Pathsala in the Barpeta district.

September 8

Six ULFA militants surrendered at the Tamulpur Army camp in the Baska district along with a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives. They included a female cadre Jainali Das, who had undergone training in Bhutan in 1999 and had been active in Barpeta, Nalbari, Goalpara and Guwahati, under the command of top ULFA leader Hira Sarania.

Two unidentified KLNLF cadres surrendered along with arms at a surrender ceremony at Lengri in the Karbi Anglong district. The two militants are reportedly responsible for the massacre of 29 Hindi-speaking people in August 2007.

September 9

Police personnel arrested two persons, Niru Jain and Anil Jain, from the Fancy Bazaar area in Guwahati for serving an extortion note to the Barpeta Zila Parishad (local government) official, Zakir Hussain, on behalf of the ULFA’s ‘709 Battalion commander’ Hira Sarania.

September 10

Suspected ULFA militants shot dead two civilians, Tarun Kundu, a restaurant owner and Ram Vilas Shah, a trader, at Talap Balibazar under Talap Outpost of Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

Unidentified gunman shot dead one NDFB cadre, Dibakar Boro, at his residence at Gawrastha village under Mushalpur police station in the Baska district.

September 14

Two unidentified All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) cadres are shot dead by security forces (SFs) during a counter insurgency operation at Maleshbasti under Haoraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district. Two militants manage to escape from the incident site.

September 15

One ‘corporal’ of the ULFA, Amar Tanti, is killed by SFs in an encounter at Pakabam under Panitola police station in the Tinsukia district. Tanti hurled two hand grenades at the advancing SFs before he was shot dead.

September 17

Two civilians, Bharat Gogoi and Mongol Borua, are shot dead by suspected Karbi militants at Satmile near Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.

The ‘commander’ of the 28th battalion of ULFA, Prabal Neog alias Benu Bora alias Aman Moran and his wife Purabi Neog alias Bonti Lahon, are arrested from Mission Chariali area under Tezpur town in the Sonitpur district. Neog is a senior leader of the outfit, who masterminded the recent killings of the Hindi-speaking people in the Upper Assam districts. He was also looking after the eastern command of the ULFA.

September 18

60 explosives and 150 electronic and non-electronic detonators are recovered from a Haflong-Laisung public bus near Mahur town in the Karbi Anglong district. Two unidentified agents of the Pakistani external intelligence agency – Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) were arrested from the same location.

September 20

One self-styled ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA’s ‘28th battalion’, identified as Lohit Duara alias Atul Pachoni, surrenders before the SF personnel at an unspecified location. Duara, who joined the ULFA in December 1999, was trained in Myanmar.

ULFA has appointed Bijoy Das alias Bijoy Chinese as the new ‘commanding officer’ of the 28th battalion after the arrest of self-styled lieutenant Prabal Neog. Das hails from the Nalbari district and had been holding the post of ‘joint deputy commander’ of the battalion along with another senior ULFA leader, Bhaskar Hazarika.

September 21

Suspected ULFA militants shot dead one civilian, Ratan Deka, at Boragog village under Kamalpur police station in the Kamrup district.

September 22

One Black Widow militant, Uttam Kachari, is killed in a cross fire, when combined cadres of the NSCN-IM and the Black Widow attack a designated camp of the Dima Halim Daogah-Pranab Nunisa faction at Halflong in the North Cachar Hills district.

Four ULFA cadres, Tapan Kalita alias Utpal, Diganta Kalita, Bikash Medhi alias Abbas Ali and Harekrishna Deka alias Siraj Saikia, are arrested from Athgaon area in the in the North Cachar Hills district after a brief encounter.

September 25

Two ULFA militants, Nabin Dutta and Ram Gogoi, are killed by Assam Police personnel during an encounter at Khowangjan Kosolowa village under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district. Dutta and Gogoi are respectively self-styled ‘corporal’ and ‘sergeant major’ of the ‘Alpha Company of the 28th Battalion’ of the ULFA.

Three Karbi Longri National Liberation Front militants, while coming to extort INR 50 lakhs as ransom from the management body of a public sector undertaking, Cement Corporation of India, are arrested by police at Sorihojan in the Karbi Anglong district.

September 28

Three employees of Punj Lloyd, a New Delhi-based construction company, are abducted by Black Widow militants from Muktacherra in the Cachar district.

September 30

Two persons are killed and 25 others injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) was exploded by the ULFA militants near a restaurant at Doomdooma town in the Tinsukia district. Additional Director-General of Police, D.K. Pathak, informed that one the two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants, carrying the IED, was killed and the other wounded in the blast.

Four persons are killed and 21 others wounded in another blast triggered by the ULFA at Tinsukia town.

A bomb blast is triggered by suspected ULFA militants causing substantial damage to the pipeline of a public sector undertaking, Oil India Ltd, at Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district. Another blast was triggered by the ULFA targeting a gas pipeline at an unspecified place under Lankashi police outpost in the Tinsukia district.

A surrendered ULFA cadre, Dipankar Boruah alias Bhaikon, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Panikheti in the Jorhat district. He had reportedly surrendered in Jorhat two years ago.

October 1

One ULFA militant, belonging to the outfit’s 28th battalion, is lynched by a group of irate civilians in the 1 Joraguri village of Golaghat district. The militant, identified as Mangal Singh, a "sergeant major" in the battalion’s "B Company", along with two of his accomplices was trying to intimidate a panchayat (village level self-government body) member into paying them a huge amount of ransom.

Seven ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrender before the Army authorities at Laipuli in the Tinsukia district.

October 4

A grenade is exploded by the ULFA militants targeting the Itachali police outpost in the Nagaon district. While two vehicles are damaged, no one is injured in the blast.

Security forces arrested three suspected ULFA militants, Bipul Bora, Prabin Bora, Jyoti Prasad Lahkar, near Borjuri area under Samaguri police station in the Nagaon district. One KLNLF militant, identified as Budheswar Ingti, was also arrested from the same location.

October 5

One unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead by Assam Police personnel during an encounter at Rakshasmari village near Chopai Tea Estate under Dhekiajuli police station in the Sonitpur district.

At least four persons, including a woman, are wounded when around 10 ULFA militants attack the residence of Dipak Pal, a Bengali-speaking person, at Leferagaon in the Sivasagar district.

Two persons are killed and four others, including a woman, are wounded when the NSCN-IM militants attacked them at Naginimira village in the Sivasagar district along the Assam-Nagaland border.

October 6

The dead bodies of two abducted employees of the Debajit Construction Company are recovered from Rambhum, 65-km from Silchar in the North Cachar Hills district. The Black Widow militants had kidnapped Samiran Suklabaidya, a construction supervisor, and Raju Khan, a driver, on September 27 from Harinagar in Cachar district. A third employee, Munna Khan, who was also abducted, managed to escape on October 4. The outfit had reportedly demanded INR 60 lakh as ransom to release the workers, but later scaled it down to INR 30 lakh.

Two ULFA militants, including one identified as ‘sergeant major’ Lankeswar Rabha, are shot dead during a counter-insurgency operation at Konakhat village under Tongla police station in the Udalguri district.

October 7

Two suspected militants, Raja Basumatary and Sansumwy Narzari, were arrested from Gossaigaon in the Kokrajhar district. They reportedly belonged to a newly formed Rabha Viper Army outfit.

October 8

Troops killed a ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Rajiv Saikia alias Raheswar Deka Baruah, at Lukili village under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district. One woman cadre of the outfit, identified as Mamu alias Satyama Bailung alias Rekha Bailung, was arrested from the incident site.

SFs neutralised three ULFA hideouts at Dilli reserve forest near Namrup in the Dibrugarh district and recovered IEDs weighing ten kilograms, several copies of ULFA’s mouthpiece Freedom, medicines and ration.

Suspected ULFA militants blew up a gas pipeline owned by the Assam Gas Company Limited at Nampum village under Chabua police station in the same district.

October 13

At least three bombs are recovered from under a bridge along the Sonai-Matinagar road in the Cachar district.

October 14

A bomb is recovered and later defused by police personnel in a plywood factory at Cinnamara on the Jorhat-Mokokchung road in the Jorhat district. Two persons were arrested in this connection.

The Karbi Anglong district police recovered 400 pieces of gelatin sticks from a forest at Boithalansu.

October 15

Security forces recovered two IEDs from a bus at Sonari town in the Sivasagar district. They also recovered another IED at Cinnamora area near Jorhat town in the Jorhat district.

October 16

Militants belonging to the Rabha Viper Army, an outfit of the Rabha Hasong community, are reportedly harassing business women from the Garo community in the vicinity of the Goalpara and Kamrup districts. The report added that militants had served an extortion note on a woman of Amjonga, demanding ransom worth INR 30 lakhs. Two militants were arrested by Army personnel while coming to extort the money at Amjonga on October 7.

October 17

Security forces recovered 10 AK-56 assault rifles, one grenade launcher, one sten gun, 650 rounds of live AK ammunition and INR 19 lakh in cash from a militant hideout near the Kopili river in Karbi Anglong district.

October 18

Four unidentified militants of the Kuki National Front (KNF) are arrested by the SFs from Dholai area in the Cachar district.

October 22

ULFA’s 28^th battalion has reportedly served extortion notices on several businessmen in the Tinsukia district during the Durga Puja festival with an instruction to pay the amount on or before the ensuing Deepawali festival.

Two militants of the ULFA, Socrates Choudhury alias Vishal and Umesh Das, are arrested by Assam Police during a search operation at Fancy Bazaar in Guwahati city.

October 23

31 ULFA militants and two from the KLNLF surrendered along with a huge cache of arms and explosives at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. One Thailand-made pistol, two PT 32 pistols, eight rounds of PT 32 pistol, an AK-56 Rifle, a radio set, ten rounds of AK-56 rifle, five rounds of 9 mm pistol, ten detonators, 20 metres fuse wire and four power gel explosives 801 (25 mm X25 mm) were deposited by the militants.

October 26

One NSCN–IM cadre, ‘second Lt’ Shikavi, is killed by the rival National NSCN-K faction during an internecine clash at Borlengri in the Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Nagaland border.

October 28

14 civilians were injured in a grenade explosion at Kalibari under Majbat police station in the Udalguri district.

October 29

SFs arrested four unidentified linkmen of the KLNLF from the Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts.

November 1

The militants revealed that the surrender is because of a growing dissension and disillusionment among the ULFA cadres, which, according to them, had made them part with the outfit. Bhaskar Bora, a ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA from Tinsukia district, said, "The revolutionary ideals of the ULFA, which drew me to the outfit, are as good as non-existent now. There is an all-pervasive depression and gloom among the cadres due to the complete absence of internal democracy in the outfit’s functioning. The ULFA is running out of time to reform it and restore internal democracy." The Inspector General of Police (Special Branch), Khagen Sharma, said that 13,269 militants, including 8718 of the ULFA, had surrendered since 1991.

November 2

An assistant manager of the Orang tea estate in the Udalguri district is abducted by a joint team of the suspected militants of the ULFA and the ANLA militants.

November 3

Suspected Black Widow militants shot dead Darbitham Hmar, a Congress Party candidate for the district council elections, two of his personal security officers and his driver in an ambush near Haflong in the North Cachar Hills district. Hmar is attacked when he is returning to Haflong from an election campaign in an interior village of his Lower Kharthong constituency.

Six persons, including two police personnel, are injured when a grenade is exploded near a bus, which is coming from the neighbouring State of Nagaland, and is parked at Silonijan under Bokajan sub-division of Karbi Anglong district.

November 4

The ULFA militants killed two civilians, Papu Saikia and Kamal Maran, suspecting them to be army informers, at Mohang village in the Tinsukia district.

Security forces in an encounter killed one self styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Ranjeet Borah alias Ananta Mech, at Dua Pathar in the same district, reports Telegraph. One pistol is recovered from the possession of the slain militant. Sources said that Bora and two other ULFA cadres took shelter at Dahpathar village under Kakopathar police station. However, the two other cadres managed to escape.

Four more civilians are injured in the November 3- grenade explosion at Shilonijan under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district. The explosion reportedly injured 10 persons including two police personnel.

November 5

Security forces arrested two senior ULFA militants, "second lieutenant" Somdev Phukon alias Ajit Phukon and his "corporal" wife, Popy Khanikar, at Bimalapur Charliali under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district, when the couple is going to Dibrugarh Medical College Hospital for the treatment of their son. Sources said that the couple had arrived in Assam from Myanmar a few weeks ago to replace Sujit Mohan as the commander of the ULFA’s 28th battalion. Somdev has joined the ULFA in 1988 and is mostly based in Myanmar. During interrogations he told that the group had released him for family reasons.

The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, instructed the SFs to intensify search operations and drive out the militants from the North Cachar Hills district to ensure holding of free and fair North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council elections scheduled to be held in two phases - on November 26 and December 1.

Police personnel arrested one surrendered ULFA cadre, Jatin Das, from the Nalbari district. Sources revealed that Das had been allegedly involved in extorting money from some citizens of Nalbari district in the name of ULFA.

November 6

Security forces during a search operation recovered a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in an ONGC oil pipeline at Mising village in Suffry under Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar district. The IED, weighing about 7-kg, is timed to blast off at 10 in the morning.

Another IED is recovered near the office of the Sivasagar Superintendent of Police. The ULFA is suspected to have planted the explosives. The explosive is planted in a bicycle to explode at 12.30 pm in front of the SP’s office. The SFs later defused the bomb safely.

November 7

The Army arrested two ULFA militants, Muzibur Rahman and Mahammed Munna, from Phalimari under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district along with three hand-made pistols and live cartridges.

The Army arrested one MULTA militant, Moinul Haque, from Uttar Raipur area under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district.

One Myanmar-trained ULFA cadre, Anil Payeng, surrendered before the Majuli Sub Division Police Officer in the Jorhat district. Anil hails from Nalini Mising Gaon of Majuli.

November 9

An IED planted by suspected ULFA militants exploded on an electric tower of the NEEPCO in the Sivasagar district. No one was injured in the explosion and the damage to the tower located at Mahamora Konwar village was minimal.

November 12

The ULFA military spokesman, Raju Baruah, revealed that two ULFA cadres were killed and seven others abducted in the Mon district of Nagaland on November 11 by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland – Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants. Baruah demanded that the NSCN-IM release the ULFA cadres within three days.

November 13

Security forces shot dead one ULFA militant, Hemo Gogoi alias Chintu Borgohain of Majuli, at Ajanti Gaon Ghat in the Sivasagar district.

A surrendered ULFA cadre, Uttam Buragohain, is shot at and injured by unidentified militants at Dihingia village in the Tisukia district.

November 14

Security forces killed one KLNLF militant, identified as Jewel Kro, and arrested one of his colleagues, Waising Kathar, from Chokihola area under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

November 16

Security forces in an encounter shot dead one ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, identified as Raju Baruah alias Albert Gohain, at Jonai in the Sivasagar district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. However, four other cadres managed to escape from the incident site.

Army personnel arrested four unidentified NSCN-IM militants from Dilli Bridge area under Namrup town in the Dibrugarh district.

One self-styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Tulon Deori alias Prakash Deori, is arrested by the police personnel from a tea stall near Demow in the Sivasagar district. Deori, hailing from Deorigaon in Nitaipukhuri under Demow police station, had joined the ULFA in 1995 and trained in Myanmar in 1998. He also went to Afghanistan in 2002 and was reportedly with the ULFA ‘C-in-C’ from 2001 to 2006.

November 17

Security forces neutralised one ULFA hideout at Nagapahar area inside Dilli reserve forest along the Assam-Nagaland border. Eight detonators concealed in eight packets along with three bags of magazines and daily requirements were seized from the camp.

November 19

Eight militants belonging to the ULFA surrendered before the Army at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. They also deposited five pistols, 20 rounds of live ammunition and five grenades before the Army. They were identified as Akshya Kalita, Gautom Deka, Ranjti Nath, Phulen Das, Brajen Kalita, Bijoy Kumar, Nirmal Murmu and Pepa Boro.

November 20

Security forces shot dead two unidentified KLNLF militants at Belughat under Howraghat police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

Police personnel arrested two Kamtapur Liberation Front militants from Chandrapara area in the Kokrajhar district along with one Italian 2.65 MM pistol, eight rounds of its ammunition, one magazine, a revolver, six rounds of ammunition and some explosives.

November 21

Police personnel arrested four persons, Dilu Gogoi, Bhaben Baruah, Pankaj Sarma and Kuldip Hazarika, for demanding INR 20 lakh as ransom from a businessman in the name of the ULFA leader, Madhurjya Buragohain, from Guwahati city in the Kamrup district.

November 22

17 militants - 15 belonging to the ULFA and two cadres of the DHD and the KLNLF - surrendered to the Army at Laipuli Army Camp in the Tinsukia district. The militants deposited 339 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 30 rounds of AK-56 ammunition, five grenades, one rifle and one pistol.

Police personnel arrested one ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA, Porag Bora alias Jyotish Bora, along with an Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad member, Palash Dutta, from a Golaghat-Dergaon bound passenger bus on PHCG road in the Golaghat district. The AJYCP member acted as the ULFA cadre’s guide.

The KLNLF militants along with its armed wing Karbi Anglong-NC Hills Peoples` Resistance, imposes a ban on the entry of the Congress party leaders to the rural areas of the Karbi Anglong district with effect from January 1, 2008. The group said that the ban has been enforced due to the failure of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council administration and the State Government to implement government-designed schemes and redressal of the grievances of the needy people.

November 23

Militants belonging to the Nunisa faction of the DHD fired 15 rounds in the air and lobbed two grenades at an election rally and injured two Autonomous State Demand Committee workers. The NCHAC polls are slated to be held on November 26 and December 1.

November 24

Unidentified militants shot dead one surrendered ULFA cadre, Robin Bezbaruah, at Udiana under Rangiya police station in the Kamrup district.

November 25

Two civilians, including one identified as Shivili Devi, are killed and 14 others injured when ULFA militants triggered an Improvised Explosive Device blast at Manik Hazarika Road under Tinsukia town in the Tinsukia district.

One civilian, identified as Umesh Shah, is killed and three others injured when the ULFA militants exploded an IED device near a tea stall at Athgaon area in the Guwahati city. Barely 10 minutes after the blast, another IED also exploded at the same place without causing any casualty.

Suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade at the office of the Sub Divisional Police officer of Bilashipara sub-division in the Dhubri district. However, no causality is reported.

Police personnel recovered a powerful IED along with a programmable time device switch from a house in the Ambikagiri Nagar area in the Guwahati city and arrested two unidentified ULFA militants.

November 26

Police personnel recovered an explosive from the roadside near to the Food Corporation of India godown at Noonmati in the Guwahati city.

November 26

One ‘Lance Corporal’ of the 109th battalion of the ULFA, Janardhan Rabha alias Joseph Rabha, surrendered before the Goalpara police in the Goalpara district along with one AK-81 rifle, three magazines, one hand grenade and 90 rounds of bullets.

November 27

Suspected BW militants shot dead 10 unidentified saw mill workers and injured eight others in two separate attacks at Bithorgaon under Umrangsho police station in the North Cachar Hills district. The militants set ablaze two saw mills and attacked the migrant labourers working there.

Suspected militants shot dead one civilian, identified as Kameswar Rabha, during the celebration of the Baksa Anchalik Raax Mohotsav at Debachara in the Baksa district.

November 28

Suspected militants lobbed a hand grenade near the Lengeri based camp of the 11th Guards Regiment of the Army under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. However, no causalities were reported.

November 30

Two persons were injured in two separate blasts at Srirampur, near Assam-West Bengal border in the Kokrajhar district. The first explosion occurred under a truck that was parked near the inter-State check post in which a school teacher was injured. The second blast occurred an hour later, when a bomb kept in a bag on a bicycle exploded near a petrol pump. A truck driver was injured in the incident.

Two unidentified militants were injured during an encounter with the security forces at Hajadisa in the North Cachar Hills district.

December 2

Three people, including a two-year-old child, were injured in a grenade attack by the ULFA near Kathiatoli in the Nagaon district.

Six cadres of the Alpha and Charlie companies of the ULFA’s 28 Battalion in the Tinsukia district surrendered before the Police and laid down their arms. They also deposited an AK-56 rifle with two magazines, a Belgium-made 12 bore pump action gun with seven rounds of ammunition, a .56 pistol with 14 rounds of ammunition, a .36 high explosive grenade, 7 kg of TNT and two coils of flexible wire.

December 3

A surrendered ULFA cadre, identified as Bogadhar Gogoi, was killed by two ULFA militants at Bordoibaam village under Tengakhat police station of Dibrugarh district for allegedly helping the army to track down ULFA cadres. In retaliation to the killing, a group of masked men on motorbikes attacked an ULFA leader Madhurjya Gohain’s house in the same village and damaged some portion of his house and destroyed some of his belongings.

December 4

The locomotive and two sleeper coaches of the Kamrup Express were partially damaged in a bomb blast on the tracks between Bokajan and Khatkhati stations in the Karbi Anglong district by the ANLA.

A section of former Bodo leaders have threatened to revive their original demand of "separate State of Bodoland" if the Government provides scheduled tribe (ST) status to the six communities who have been demanding their inclusion in the ST list.

December 5

Security forces arrested two ULFA linkmen, identified as Indrajit Moran of Julliard under Doomdooma police station and Pinku Chetia of Borali Gaon under Kakopathar police station in the Tinsukia district. Police later released Indrajit Moran as there was no specific prima-facie evidence against him.

December 6

Two persons were wounded when the BW militants attacked Dipendu Langthasa and Nirmal Langthasa, sons of Congress party leader Govinda Langthasa, near Gurubari in the North Cachar Hills district. While the two brothers managed to escape the ambush, their driver and security guard sustained injuries.

The KLNLF, while observing its "7th martyrs’ day" on December 6, stated that the Union and Assam Governments should honour its "self-rule territory" demand if they are ready to come to the negotiating table.

December 7

Suspected ANLA militants shot at and wounded Hem Chetri, the driver of an Arunachal Pradesh-bound oil tanker, while targeting his vehicle at Rangapara railway level-crossing under Rangapara police station in the Sonitpur district.

December 8

A DHD militant, identified as London Dimasa, was killed in an encounter with police at Waris village, about 20-km from Haflong. The police arrested another militant, Stabli Dimasa, and seized an US-made carbine from him.

December 9

Police arrested four cadres belonging to the ULFA and seven cadres of the AANLA from different parts of the Guwahati city.

December 11

According to a NDTV report, extortion activities by the militant outfits have increased in Assam in recent times. The report says that the NDFB demands 6 per cent from all projects, which falls under Bodoland territory. Every truck passing thorough the Bengal-Assam border at the Sri Rampur Gate has to pay up INR 150. Each commercial taxi is charged INR 150 per month. The NDFB takes a 2 per cent cut from all salaried employees and charges INR 2-3 lakhs per annum from tea gardens. They have even charged 3 per cent from the money meant for education projects like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 'Education for All' campaign. The report also says that though the amount of money demanded by the militants is less, the target base has been increased. Suspected militants of the ANLA abducted a trader, identified as Pankaj Goel, from his residence at Thakurbari under Rangapara Police Station in the Sonitpur district. His father, Omprakash Goel, was also shot at and injured while trying to prevent the abduction.

According to a media report, extortion activities by the militant outfits have increased in Assam in recent times. The report said that the NDBF demands six per cent from all projects, which falls under Bodoland territory. Every truck passing thorough the Bengal-Assam border at the Sri Rampur Gate has to pay up INR 150. Each commercial taxi is charged INR 150 per month. The NDFB takes a two per cent cut from all salaried employees and charges INR 2-3 lakhs per annum from tea gardens. They also charge three per cent from the money meant for education projects like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 'Education for All' campaign. The report added that though the amount of money demanded by the militants is less, the target base has been increased.

December 13

Five people were killed and four others injured in a bomb blast carried out by suspected ANLA militants in a Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express train in Assam's Golaghat district. The explosion, which occurred between Naujan and Sugajan, destroyed the luggage van of the train and a small portion of the railway track as well.

The former general secretary of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Munindra Singha Lahkar, was shot dead by three unidentified militants from point blank range in the Rangia town of Kamrup district.

An Asom Gana Parishad leader and Member of Legislative Assembly from the Sootea constituency, Padma Hazarika, was shot at and his vehicle set ablaze by unidentified militants in the Sonitpur district.

December 14

At least four labourers were shot dead by suspected BW militants at the Longpo area under Umrangshu police station in the North Cachar Hills district.

An agent of the Pakistan’s ISI, identified as Mojibullah Alam alias Asfi Alam, was arrested by the Special Branch of Assam Police at Guwahati. He belonged to Azampur village under Uttara police station in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.

December 15

A surrendered ULFA militant, identified as Ratul Das, was killed by some unidentified militants at his residence at Dharam Nala in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 16

The Khotkhoti police recovered an unidentified body from Laharijan under Bokajan police station in the Karbi Anglong district.

The outgoing Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal P.K. Barbora, said that a faction of the ULFA is being supported by Pakistan’s ISI after its split. "One faction, operating in lower Assam, is in league with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and other fundamentalist forces, while the other faction, operating in Upper Assam has build up a nexus with NSCN-K," Barbara said. He disclosed that the faction operating in lower Assam has camps in Bangladesh and it supported influx of Bangladeshis into Assam. The other faction, active in Upper Assam, is, however, not in favour of such influx.

December 17

Two hardcore KLNLF militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Chowkihola in the Karbi Anglong district.

Two unidentified dead bodies of suspected militants were recovered from Upper Hansal Manhansigaon in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 18

Two Assam Police personnel, Mayaram Kalita and Royal K. Sangma, are killed and five others injured when a group of armed militants of the Black Widow (BW) attacked their camp at Phiding Railway Station under Mahur police station in the North Cachar Hill district. Around 30 militants attacked the camp from three sides, lobbing grenades and firing indiscriminately which lasted for at least 30 minutes.

December 19

Intelligence sources says that the ULFA could strike before the three-phase panchayat (local self-government) elections, scheduled to be held on December 31, January 4 and 9 in Assam, to prove its existence and use the disruption as publicity stunts.

An unnamed senior police officer of the North Cachar Hills district revealed that at least 20 Black Widow militants are operating in the district to attack security force personnel engaged in counter-insurgency operations in the district. He said that the militants came from Nagaland to North Cachar Hills in Assam in September 2007.

December 20

Four militants belonging to the’ 709 battalion’ of the ULFA outfit surrender before the Army at Kamalpur in the Kamrup district. While one of the surrendered militants is a ‘sergeant major’ another is a 17-year-old cadre who had joined the outfit while he was studying in Class X standard in Goalpara High School in western Assam. They deposited one Chinese made pistol with two magazines and 20 rounds of live ammunition, few grenades, four explosive fitted with programmable timer devices at the time of surrender.

The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while addressing the meeting on internal security chaired by the Prime Minister in New Delhi, asks the Union Government to take up the issue of terrorist camps in the neighboring country, as also expedite the fencing of the porous border and institute a better border management mechanism.

Pakistan’s ISI and al Qaeda threaten to blow up the offices of the BJP Assam unit and AASU in Guwahati and also to kill its advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya. A letter addressed to the BJP state unit’s president, Ramen Deka, by eight persons claiming to be ISI and al Qaeda active members in Assam threatened "to blow out the main BJP and AASU offices like the World Trade Centre (in USA)". "Your offer to (Bangladeshi writer) Taslima Nasreen to stay in Assam is against Islam and its tenets. If you don’t stop your activities immediately a powerful bomb will be exploded in your main office," the letter stated. The hand-written letter, in immigrant Bangladeshi style Assamese dated December 11 on plain paper and received by post, alleges that the BJP under Deka’s leadership is "resorting to mental and physical torture of local Muslims. "Samujjal Bhattacharya’s death is also certain for his activities as AASU advisor", the letter threatened.

December 21

Two Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA) militants, identified as Putul Munda and Arjun Karmakar, were killed during a fratricidal killing in the Karbi Anglong district. Their bodies were recovered from Bokajan-Hidipi road. They were killed "as punishment" by the ANLA for failing to deposit with the outfit the extortion money they had extracted.

December 24

A civilian, Mukut Phukan, is shot dead by unidentified militants at his residence in Kothalguri in the Dibrugarh district.

December 25

Four security force personnel and a woman are injured in a bomb blast triggered by unidentified militants near Khona Tiniali under Sonari police station in the Tinsukia district.

Five All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) militants, Akash Tirkey alias Danial Ekka, self-styled area commander, Dhoni Oraon, Chandan Bhumij, Thomas Kerketta, and Samanan Tati alias Raju Tati, are arrested. They confessed that the NSCN-IM and KRA are providing training and arms and ammunition to them.

The DHD threatens to withdraw from the peace process with the Central Government and go underground out of frustration over ‘no progress’ in the on-going peace talks with Government of India. The DHD has about 1000 cadres in four designated camps.

One ULFA cadre is killed during an encounter with the Army in Sivsagar district.

December 26

Four ULFA cadres, Akur Rabha, Neel Sagar Rabha, Ajen Marak and Uday Ghosh, are arrested with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition at Balaikhawar and Hatisila villages near Lakhipur.

Two militants, Aravinda Tisso and Bikram Terang, are arrested from Hidim Terang village under Manja police outpost in the Karbi Anglong district.

December 27

Assam Minister Tarun Gogoi stated that the ANLA is being supported by the NSCN-IM.

December 28

At least 21 residents of Guwahati city are arrested and later remanded to police custody for playing varied roles in the ULFA’s network of subversion.

December 29

One militant of the ULFA [28th battalion ‘C’ company], identified as ‘corporal’ Dhaman Chetia, is killed by security forces at Kulabari village under Kakapathar Police Station of Tinsukia district. While another ULFA cadre, Amjad Chetia, is injured, one more cadre is arrested.

December 30

One surrendered ULFA cadre, Bijoy Shankar Hazarika, and his wife, Anita, are shot dead by the ULFA militants at Khatikuchi under Ghograpar police station in the Nalbari district.

Three persons are injured in a grenade explosion in front of the Choudhury Cinema Hall under Athgaon flyover in Guwahati city.

Two unidentified ANLA militants are arrested from Gossaigaon area in the Kokrajhar district.

Two ULFA linkmen, Utpal Mandal and Brindaban Tudu, are arrested by the Army personnel from near the Gurufella area under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.

The Union Government decides to extend the cease-fire with the DHD by another six months with effect from January 1, 2008, following a meeting between senior officials of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and a seven-member DHD delegation led by Dilip Nunisa.

December 31

Three ULFA militants are killed by security forces in the Dibru Saikhowa National Park located across Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

One ULFA militant is shot dead by a joint team of the police and Central Reserve Police Force at Bhetapara in the Basistha police station area of Guwahati.

Three persons, including the son of a Congress party leader, were abducted by the ULFBV militants armed with AK-47 rifles at Kharolbasti in the Hailakandi district along the Assam-Mizoram border. The abducted persons were identified as Hussein Ahmed, Abdul Noor and Abdul Khaliq.

ULFA accused the Union government of trying to gain political mileage over the peace talks issue and insisted that a written assurance should be given to discuss sovereignty to revive the peace process.