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Incidents and Statements involving ULFA: 1979-2009

2009

  • December 31: The Army recovers 2.5 kilograms of Improvised Explosive Device (IED), suspected to be planted by the ULFA cadres, at Khumdi village in Nalbari District. The explosive is subsequently defused. The Police arrest Jiten Basumatary, a gram panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) member, in whose house suspected ULFA cadres had hidden the bomb before it was put inside a plastic bag.

    The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said, "Militancy is indeed continuing in Assam and Manipur and I do not deny it." Stating that two-three top leaders of the ULFA were still out of the reach of the Security Forces, he said, "I am confident that there will be good news in days to come as far as these two-three leaders are concerned…Two more ULFA leaders Arabinda Rajkhowa and Raju Barua were apprehended on the India-Bangladesh border and subsequently arrested by the Assam Police on December 4." The Minister said, "We will talk to them if they drop the demands for sovereignty and abjure violence." The report adds that Chidambaram has so far been maintaining that ULFA needed to drop the demand for sovereignty, abjure violence and surrender weapons.

    The Government will consider providing safe passage to the ULFA cadres if their jailed leaders agree to start a dialogue. "If they agree to hold discussions with the government, we will consider allowing safe passage. This has been decided," a source said, adding, there has, however, to be a formal communication from the leadership. "They must write stating they are willing and ready for talks," the source said. "They have to come home by shunning the path of violence," the source mentioned.

  • December 30: Telegraph reports that the ‘general council meeting’ of the ULFA would be held at Central Jail in Guwahati to discuss the issue of holding talks with the Government. Highly placed sources said that Bhimkanta Buragohain, political adviser to ULFA, would be transferred to Central Jail after his next hearing in Tezpur court on January 8, 2010 to satisfy ‘norms of a minimum of eight central committee members being present at the meeting’. Buragohain is currently in Tezpur jail. The report adds that the ‘16-member central committee’ of the ULFA can hold its ‘general council meeting’ with half its members. At present, seven leaders of the ‘central committee’, including ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa, are in the jail in here. As such it was necessary for Buragohain to be present at the meeting to make it valid according to the ‘organization’s rules’. "We cannot say whether the outcome of the meeting would be positive vis à vis the talks, but the fact that there would be a meeting is a good beginning and, who knows, there may be some good news during the festive occasion," a source said. Apart from Rajkhowa, Central Jail currently houses ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Barua, ‘foreign secretary’ Sasha Choudhury, ‘finance secretary’ Chitrabon Hazarika, ‘vice-president’ Pradip Gogoi, ‘publicity secretary’ Mithinga Daimary and ‘cultural secretary’ Pranati Deka, wife of Chitrabon. Sources said a few ‘members of the central committee’ were not willing to hold such a meeting without ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua but with people asking for talks to begin, the leaders have decided to go ahead without him.

  • December 29: Indian Express reports that the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) recently began an inquiry after discovering ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah figured in its employee rolls. "Two hearings were conducted on December 4 and December 20. Nobody came forward to either claim this job or offer a representation on behalf of Baruah," said a senior NFR official. The report adds that almost three decades after Baruah last reported for his porter’s job in the Indian Railways, where he has continued to be ‘employed’ despite neither coming to work nor drawing a salary. ,

    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the Government has already initiated a peace process with the ULFA, and expressed his hope that the peace process with the outfit would make a stride in 2010.

  • December 28: An ULFA linkman was arrested by the Police at Baihata area in Kamrup (rural) District. Two 9-mm pistols with ten rounds of cartridges are recovered from his possession.

    The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa’s bodyguard Raja Bora alias Polash Phukan was produced before the Special Court of Judicial Magistrate in Dibrugarh on December 26 and was sent to Police remand for seven days.

    The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that there will be no discussion on the sovereignty issue during peace talks with the ULFA, according to Shillong Times. "There will be no discussion on the sovereignty issue when the peace talks are held with the ULFA. One thing is clear: there will be no compromise on sovereignty," said Gogoi, adding, "the process for (initiating) the talkshas almost started but I don't say that much progress has been made or any breakthrough achieved. Attempts are being made...let's hope for the best."

  • December 27: A suspected ULFA linkman, Diganta Bora, is arrested by the Police from Murpholoni in Golaghat District. Incriminating documents are recovered from his possession.

  • December 26: The Director General of Assam Police G. M. Srivastava said that though the ULFA is not yet finished, it will not be the same organization after the arrests of its senior leaders. He pointed out that though the incidents of violence are the visible impacts of a militant group, no organization can run only through acts of violence. "There are several other aspects of running a militant outfit effectively including maintaining international contacts and managing other aspects of the outfit and it will not be possible for Paresh Baruah alone to do that. The arrested top leaders of the outfit were key members of the ULFA and it will be difficult for the ULFA to run the outfit without them. For example, some of the arrested leaders were responsible for maintaining international contacts and without them the outfit will lose such contacts," he added. Srivastava further said that if majority of the ULFA leaders finally decide to come forward for talks, the people of Assam would make Paresh Baruah redundant.

    The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa and ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Barua are sent to judicial custody after 21 days in Police custody. The remand order is given by the Chief Judicial Magistrate Robin Phukan, who heard the case at a camp court inside the Central Jail in Guwahati.

    A cadre belonging to ‘709th battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Dharmendra Kalita, is arrested by a joint team of the Police and CRPF near the Guwahati refinery along with RDX and ball bearings, which are used as splinters in bombs. Kalita belonged to Nalbari District of lower Assam. "He was walking along the railway tracks near the Sector 3 area of the refinery complex. When he was asked to stop, he tried to flee but was captured," a Police Officer said. Sources said Kalita had revealed during interrogation that several ULFA cadres from the lower Assam Districts had entered the State capital recently to carry out the strikes. "We, too, had some unsubstantiated inputs about Ulfa plans to carry out strikes at vital installations in the state, especially in the capital city, but Kalita has now corroborated it. We have now taken a re-look and tightened security around these areas," the Police Officer said. He said Kalita was a bomb expert and knows how to make an IED. "He had all the ingredients required to prepare the IED with him. We are expecting to get more specific information from him about the other cadres who have entered the city," he said. The Police said ULFA cadres in lower Assam were still active and preparing to carry out strikes. "Several active cadres of the outfit from lower Assam are taking shelter on the outskirts of the city and are looking for opportunities to enter the city to strike," another Police Officer said. Police sources recently revealed that they have information about ULFA cadres from lower Assam Districts setting up a base again inside Bhutanese territory near Barpathar village in Assam’s Chirang District. Sources added that two top leaders of the 709th ‘battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as self-styled ‘second lieutenant’ Baba Rabha and ‘sergeant major’ Kushal Das, are manning the camp that has over 100 cadres, most of them new recruits.

  • December 23: The ULFA ‘foreign secretary’ Sashadhar Choudhury and ‘finance secretary’ Chitraban Hazarika are reproduced before the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Kamrup and were sent to another 14 days of judicial custody in connection with the Bharalumukh Police Station case.

    A ULFA militant, Jatin Shaw alias Alput Thapa (25), surrenders and deposits his 9-mm pistol and one magazine before the Inspector General of the Border Security Force (Assam-Meghalaya frontier) Prithvi Raj at Shillong in Meghalaya. Jatin belongs to Golaghat in Assam and joined the ‘B company’ of the outfit in 2003 and underwent training at the ‘first battalion Naga camp’ in Myanmar. He is also involved in many killing and extortions cases in Assam. The surrendered militant worked as the ‘personal security officer’ of ‘commander of B company’ Sujeet Mohan. Jatin reportedly came over ground at the calling of his mother. He said, "I decided to leave the outfit after my mother asked me to do so". He also stated that National Socialist Council of Nagaland and ULFA are operating collectively in the forests of Myanmar, adding 20-25 cadres from Arunachal Pradesh were also undergoing training at different camps of the neighbouring country. Prithvi Raj expresses concern over the move by Northeast militants to shift base from Bangladesh to Myanmar in the wake of the ongoing operations against them by Dhaka. Admitting that there was an exodus of ULFA militants to Myanmar to escape the ongoing operations by the Bangladeshi Security Forces, Prithvi Raj said, "It is quite natural that the militants look for new pastures to continue their future activities."

  • December 22: The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, turning down the demand for sovereignty, asks the ULFA and UNLF to give up violence and hold talks. He said that the Union Government was willing to look at 'new governing structures' to take care of the development agenda of the Northeast. "A couple of groups like the ULFA and the UNLF are still carrying out violent activities. To them we say, give up the demand for sovereignty. Give up violence and we can talk of anything," the Union Minister said at the valedictory session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) leadership summit in Kolkata. Stating that the Constitution was resilient and innovative, and accommodated the concerns of the people of smaller states, he said, "If new innovations for governing structures are required, we are willing to look at it. The Constitution has provided for hill development councils, semi-autonomy, and some schedules to address the concerns of the people of the smaller states. We can have more schedules as long as it takes care of the development agenda."

  • December 19: Police said that surrendered ULFA cadres were involved in the December 18 robbery at a branch of the United Bank of India at Dirok in Margherita of Tinsukia District. "We have identified a few members of the gang. At least three of them are surrendered ULFA militants," a senior Police official involved in the investigations said. He, however, did not name them, saying the time was "not right" yet.

  • December 17: The highly placed security sources said that the ULFA leaders, including the ‘chairman’, did not divulge the name of any political leader who paid money to the outfit. Sources mentioned that the ULFA was involved in selling arms and ammunition to different militant groups of the region, including ATTF, NLFT, KLNLF, etc. The outfit, over the years, managed to establish very good contacts with the clandestine arms dealers of South East Asian countries and also received Programmable Time Device (PTD) switches from Pakistan. The outfit still has a good stock of PTD switches and the potential to trigger off explosions, sources said. However, seizures of a large number of weapons of the ULFA in 2004 and 2007 in Bangladesh severely affected the outfit, sources added.

    A surrendered ULFA cadre, Ratul Pathak, is shot at and wounded by unidentified militants at Gobardhana Chariali in Barpeta District.

    The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Guwahati, Robin Phukan, remands ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa, ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Barua and Rajkhowa’s bodyguard Raja Bora, to nine days of Police custody in connection with three blast-related cases registered at Paltan Bazar, Bharalumukh and Bhangagarh Police Stations.

    The arrested leaders of the ULFA confess that the outfit received "benefits" from political parties mostly in forms of money, particularly during elections.

    Bhutan said it has no information about ULFA running any camp in its territory but would take "positive steps" only if India communicated to it on this issue.

    Police said that surrendered ULFA cadres were involved in the December 18 robbery at a branch of the United Bank of India at Dirok in Margherita of Tinsukia District. "We have identified a few members of the gang. At least three of them are surrendered ULFA militants," a senior Police official involved in the investigations said. He, however, did not name them, saying the time was "not right" yet.

  • December 16: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi rules out the possibility of halting army operations targeting the ULFA outfit.

  • December 14: Meghalaya Police conducts counter-insurgency operations in the East Garo Hills region to flush out ULFA militants who have entered in large numbers to escape ongoing flush-out operations in neighbouring State of Assam. The area is idle for militants to use as a corridor to cross over to and fro Bangladesh and for concealment of weapons in view of the thick forest cover with an inaccessible terrain. Meghalaya Director General of Police S. B. Kakati said Garo Hills had previously been used by Assam-based militants as a safe haven. "I don't deny the fact that it is even now being used by militants and we are on the lookout for them," he said. According to Kakati, the area of concern is Resubelpara sub-division sharing border with Assam's Goalpara District. He said ‘109th battalion’ of the ULFA led by its ‘commander’ Hira Sarania was active in lower Assam and thereby used the route for transport of men and arms. "Resubelpara sub-division is infested by ULFA and even now operations are taking place to flush them out. There have been instances of arrest, seizure of weapons and neutralizing of militants," he said and added that identification of militants is a problem for the Police.

  • December 14: The ULFA’s pro-talk faction led by Mrinal Hazarika reacted sharply to the December 13 public apology made by ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah for the Dhemaji bomb blast on August 15, 2004 and termed the apology a ‘drama’.

    The Special Operation Unit of Assam Police submits the case diary pertaining to the January 1 bomb blast in Bhangagarh and Paltan Bazar to the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup District, according to Assam Tribune. The ULFA ‘foreign secretary’ Sasha Choudhury and ‘finance secretary’ Chitraban Hazarika are accused in the blasts.

  • December 13: The ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua apologises to the people of Assam for the bomb blast at Dhemaji on August 15, 2004, killing 17 persons, including 16 school children. Barua, however, blames some of the former cadres of the outfit for the blast and says they had misled the top ULFA leadership by saying it was done by the Government machinery to defame ULFA in the eyes of the people of Assam.

    The former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta accuses Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of "telling lies" over the "secret killings" issue. Gogoi, according to him, had learnt to "tell lies", as none of the commissions of inquiries constituted to probe the "secret killings" were able to find the "non-existent proof". "Will the chief minister pursue the widely published statement made by Ulfa finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika that his ministers and officials had paid to Ulfa so that the truth is placed before the people of the state? The ministers are said to have paid Ulfa for helping the ruling Congress on various occasions," he adds.

  • December 11: The ULFA asks the Union Government for a plebiscite in Assam. "Talks, if any, have to be on the issue of Assam's independence or sovereignty. If the government cannot hold talks on the issue of sovereignty or independence, let there be a plebiscite on the issue," ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah said in an emailed statement to the local media in Guwahati.

  • December 10: The arrested ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa and ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Barua said during interrogation that family members of the outfit’ s ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua are still holed up in Bangladesh along with the family members of Anup Chetia, another jailed ULFA leader.

    Surrendered ULFA cadres kill six persons at Singirmari in Nagaon District. Subsequently, several hundred women along with the villagers of Rajagaon launch a search operation to locate the culprits on the next day.

  • December 9: The arrested ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa and ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Baruah completely rule out any possibility of negotiation with the Government without outfit’s ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah before the Police and the Government officials during interrogation. "Sovereignty or no sovereignty, peace talks would reap benefits only when the C-in-C comes forward for talks," Rajkhowa is said to have told the interrogators.

    Militant outfits in the Northeast— the Manipur People’s Liberation Front, National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), Tripura People’s Democratic Front, and anti-talk faction of the NDFB —said the people of the region engaged in "liberation struggle" felt "betrayed" by Bangladesh’s handing over of ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa and other leaders to India.

    The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) that talks with the insurgent groups in the Northeast could be held only if they laid down arms. Chidambaram said, "Our stand is clear. Lay down arms, give up demands for sovereignty and talks can be held... My appeal is common to all insurgent groups (in the northeast). Give up demands for sovereignty and lay down your arms. This will open the way for talks." Reminding the House that he had last week hoped that the ULFA would make a political statement offering talks with the Government, the Home Minister said, "No, such offer has not come. If they make an offer, we will talk." He added, "If there is an offer for talks, these will be conducted with due dignity."

  • December 8: Two Myanmar-trained ULFA cadres surrender before Lakhimpur District authorities. They are identified as Debashish Bhuyan alias Bipul and Bubul Chowdung. They deposit a 9-mm pistol and .30 pistol at the time of surrender.

  • December 6: The Union Government said it is ready to hold peace talks with ULFA. The Government, however, ruled out any discussion on the basis of a demand voiced by a section of the banned militant outfit for "sovereignty" of Assam. Sources said the ULFA was speaking in different voices on the prospect of talks with the Centre. There is no question of any discussion on the basis of "sovereignty" for Assam, the sources said. Meanwhile, Paresh Baruah, ‘commander-in-chief’ of ULFA, on December 5 said that there was no confusion in the minds of the ULFA cadres who want "sovereignty" for Assam to be discussed in any dialogue, while denying a split in the outfit.

    The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi asked all militant groups of the State, including the ULFA, to come forward for peace talks with the Government.

  • December 5: Two ULFA militants, identified as Angshuman Bora alias Sabin Buragohain, ‘self-styled sergeant major’ of the ‘28th battalion’ and Rinku Baruah alias Bitupan Baruah, ‘lance corporal’ of the same battalion, surrendered before the Army personnel at Thakurbari Army Camp in Sonitpur District.

  • December 4: The ‘chairman’ of the ULFA, Arabinda Rajkhowa alias Rajiv Rajkonwar and ‘Deputy Commander-in-Chief’ of the outfit, Raju Baruah, were handed over to the BSF near Dawki sector of the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya in the morning along with their family members. Official sources said that they were handed over to the Assam Police later. A team of the Assam Police brought them to Guwahati and they have been kept in the Assam Police’s Special Branch headquarters at Kahilipara area of Guwahati.

    The official sources in BSF said that Rajkhowa, his wife Kaberi Kachari and two children, Raju Baruah, his wife and a child, wife and two children of ULFA Foreign Secretary Sasha Choudhury and one Raja Bora, who was the bodyguard of Rajkhowa, surrendered to the BSF and were handed over to the Assam Police. Sources said that the ULFA members and their family members looked tired when they were brought to the city and "it seemed that they had to travel a long way", an official added. Security sources said that the ULFA chairman may face as many as nine cases under different sections of the IPC and the Arms Act as well as Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for waging war against the nation. He has specific cases against him in Jagiroad and Sivasagar. Raju Baruah has two cases lodged against him and the possibility of the police tracing out other cases against him during the course of investigations cannot be ruled out. Sources said that the wives of Rajkhowa and Sasha Choudhury were members of the ULFA and they are likely to face trial. However, it is yet to be ascertained whether Raju Baruah’s wife was a member of the militant outfit. Police sources informed that top security officials, including officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs, questioned the arrested rebel leaders. The militant leaders are expected to be produced tomorrow.

    It was reported in Assam Tribune that both the leaders were handed over to BSF personnel somewhere in Tripura sector and flown in an Indian Air Force aircraft from Agartala to a defence airfield and was taken to an ITBP camp.

    Hira Saraniya, the ‘leader’ of the outfit’s 709th battalion said that the arrested leaders of ULFA were keen for peace talk and a breakthrough can be expected in the next few days. Official sources have claimed that all the four ULFA battalions, following the arrest of ULFA chairman and deputy commander Raju Baruah among others, are said to have shown keenness in pursuing the peace talks route, provided the Union Government agrees to entertain their charter of demands, which may not feature the demand of sovereignty. This comes at a time when the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Paresh Baruah, through a press release, had asked the arrested ULFA leaders, particularly chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, not compromise on the sovereignty issue. Official sources, however, have not ruled out the possibility of Paresh Baruah coming for talks, stating that the commanders of a couple of battalions are expected to convey the message to the ‘C-in-C’ and prepare the charter of demands accordingly.

    Paresh Baruah, ‘Commander-in-Chief’, asked the chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa to clarify his stand on the issue of talks with the Government of India. In a statement e-mailed to the media, Baruah said that he had come to know about the fact that Rajkhowa along with the Military Spokesman of the outfit Raju Baruah and Sergeant Raja Gogoi were in the custody of the Indian Security Forces since December 2. He said that the Government of India would like to take advantage of the situation by forcing them to participate in the "so called talks" with the Government. The media reports in the last couple of days also indicated that the Government was trying to start "so called talks" with the arrested ULFA leaders. Baruah called upon the ULFA chairman to remember the demands and ideology of the ULFA and the supreme sacrifices of more than 12,000 ULFA members. He appealed to the ULFA chairman not to fall into the trap of the Government of India to take part in "so called talks" and asked him to clarify his position regarding talks.

    The Union Government said ULFA leaders, who surrendered, will have to face judicial process as several cases were pending against them and talks with the militant outfit will take place in "due course". "(Arabinda) Rajkhowa and Raju Baruah have surrendered and then they were arrested. They are now in Guwahati. They will be produced in a court," Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai told to reporters when asked about the fate of the ULFA leaders, who surrendered along the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya. "They have just come. Everything will take place in due course. Wait for that," he said. Asked about the fate of the family members of Rajkhowa and others, Pillai said as no cases were pending against the family members, they were free to go. "Families are free," he added.

    Sentinel quoting an unnamed top Government official reports that the elusive ‘commander-in-chief’ of ULFA Paresh Baruah is hiding in Kachin area of Myanmar, bordering China, and under the full grip of anti-India forces like ISI of Pakistan. Baruah, who has been against holding any peace dialogue with the Government, has fled from his hideout in Bangladesh some time ago. "He is now in Kachin area of Myanmar," the official said. Several militant outfits in the Northeast have training camps and bases in Kachin, which borders China’s Yunnan province, which Baruah visits regularly.

  • December 3: Unidentified militants shot dead one Nazrul Ali, the driver of pro-talks ULFA ‘leader’ Russel Maradona, at Citnipara in Nalbari District.

    Three prominent jailed ULFA leaders — ‘vice-chairman’ Pradip Gogoi, former ‘publicity secretary’ Mithinga Daimary and ‘cultural secretary’ Pranati Deka — said that there is a bleak future of peace talks if Rajkhowa takes such a move sidelining Paresh Baruah and violating ULFA’s constitution. The three ULFA leaders were produced in the court in Guwahati. Talking to reporters, Mithinga Daimary said: "Arabinda Rajkhowa alone can’t drop the sovereignty demand that is in the constitution of the ULFA, and as such, he has no right to go for peace talks without Paresh Baruah. If he holds peace talks with the Government of India without Paresh Baruah and dropping the demand for sovereignty, the jailed ULFA leaders won’t be with him. Talks should be on sovereignty of Assam, and whether the demand is met or not is a different matter. If Paresh Baruah gives his nod to peace talks, the peace process may go on the right track." On the reported arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa, he said the Government does not want any peace talks with the ULFA. "An arrested Rajkhowa can’t do anything towards peace talks what a free Rajkhowa can," he added.

    The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi indicated that the much-awaited peace talks with the ULFA might be held even without the presence of the banned outfit’s still elusive ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah. "I have all along been convinced that the problem of insurgency has to arrive at some sort of political solution…If Paresh Baruah comes that is well and good but my personal view is that a dialogue can begin without him. This is also the desire of the people of Assam who favour a peaceful solution of insurgency," Gogoi said at a press conference.

    The mother of ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua, Miliki Barua (84), said if the proposed peace process was initiated without her son then the whole exercise would be "useless". She said, "All the boys (the ULFA leadership) had set out together on a journey to achieve something for Assam and if negotiations are held without my son then the whole process will be useless". "If the Government has the capacity, then it should bring all of them (ULFA leaders hiding in other countries) back. All the boys went together to realise a common goal, then why is the Government bringing back some and leaving out the others?" she questioned. However, she said that she was confident that her son would return if the Government’s intention on the peace process was explained to him and he was convinced.

    Paresh Baruah called up a member of the People’s Consultative Group, Hiranya Saikia, asserting that the struggle for sovereignty of Assam would continue even if some members of the outfit have come forward for talks by giving up the demand and ideology of the ULFA. When contacted, Saikia confirmed the phone call and said that the ULFA ‘commander -in-chief’ was very assertive. "He said that if any member of the outfit gives up the demand for sovereignty and come for talks with the Government they are free to do so. He also asserted that he would not give up the demand and ideology of the outfit and is ready to continue the struggle for which more than 11,000 youths laid down their lives," Saikia said.

    The opposition AGP party made an appeal to both the Government and ULFA to settle the contentious issues through negotiation. In a statement in Guwahati, the chief spokesman of the party, Atul Bora, said that none of the parties should slap any condition for the negotiation. Moreover, he said that the Governments in the State and at the Union should involve all leaders of the militant group in the negotiation. In the name of negotiation, the people of the State should not be deceived again, said Bora. Blaming the Tarun Gogoi-led Government’s nine-year term for the present volatile situation, said that the restoration of peace is the only solution to it. The Government should not go on reckless killing of youths in the name of containing insurgency. It should go for political solution of the insurgency problem, he added further.

  • December 2: The Army released photographs of ULFA two cadres, who had carried out the November 22 Nalbari twin blasts claiming nine lives. Both the cadres, Mohan alias Mahesh Rajbongshi and Hemanto Rajbongshi, belonged to the ‘709th battalion’ of the ULFA, a press statement issued by Army said.

    The ‘chairman’ of the ULFA Arabinda Rajkhowa and ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Baruah were arrested in Dhaka. Both the ULFA leaders are likely to be handed over to India, highly placed official sources said. The sources said that Rajkhowa, whose movements were under scanner of the Security Forces of Bangladesh since September 2009, was picked up from a house in the suburbs of Dhaka city along with a few of his associates. Sources said that the Government of Bangladesh already intimated India about the detention of Rajkhowa and he is likely to be handed over to India. Bangladesh has not registered any case against Rajkhowa and he will be handed over to India as a part of the assurance to hand over militant leaders of India taking shelter in Bangladesh for years. Official sources said that intelligence inputs indicated detention of the ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ of the ULFA Raju Baruah. "The Government of Bangladesh is yet to confirm the detention of Raju Baruah. The Government of Bangladesh only informed India that the ULFA Chairman and a few others were detained. But Indian intelligence agencies managed to obtain reports confirming the detention of Raju Baruah," sources added. The report adds that the ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa will fly to Delhi after he is "pushed back" to Tripura from Bangladesh.

    A high alert has been sounded in Upper Assam Districts following the arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa. Police have tightened the security in the sensitive areas. A meeting among the Security officials held in Jorhat to review the security scenario and some new strategies were adopted to prevent any kind of militant activities in the area.

    The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) that he would respond within 72 hours if the ULFA decided to hold talks with the Government, reports Sentinel. He was responding to a discussion on the internal security situation in the country. He further said, "I hope that the ULFA leaders will release a political statement on peace talks with the Union Government very soon."

    The detained ULFA ‘leader’ Mithinga Daimary said that Arabinda Rajkhowa alone cannot sit for talks outside the ambit of the outfit’s constitution. He termed Bangladesh’s recent offensive towards the ULFA militants as a ‘betrayal.’

  • December 1: Bhim Kanta Buragohain alias Mama, the ULFA idealogue who was arrested during the Bhutan operation, was produced at Tezpur court in Sonitpur District. Buragohain told reporters that he believed that talks with the Indian Government could be held if the arrested leaders of the outfit are unconditionally released.

    The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram clarified that the Union Government is yet to receive any offer from ULFA to come for talks even as the Union Government seems to have softened its stand on the presence of the elusive commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah at the talks. When asked whether the Government of India was willing to sit for negotiations minus Paresh Baruah, he said, "Good, if they come for talks." However, he also reiterated the same preconditions of abjuring violence, surrendering weapons and dropping the demand for sovereignty before coming for dialogue. "However, we have not received any offer so far," he added.

    An ULFA militant, Gobin Ojha alias Kiran Jyoti Gogoi (29) and a KLNLF cadre, Arun Terong alias John Mukran (37), laid down arms before the Inspector-General of the Assam-Meghalaya frontier of the BSF, Prithvi Raj, at a surrender ceremony during the 45th raising day of the Paramilitary Force in Shillong. "Myanmar continues to be a safe haven for the ULFA cadres after the ongoing crackdown on militants by the Bangladeshi security forces," the ULFA cadre revealed. Ojha said three camps of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA were in Myanmar, located adjacent to the camps of the NSCN-K. There were at present 110 ULFA cadres in the three camps and among the prominent leaders housed there include Konkon Gohain, Bijoy Chinese, Myanmar camp ‘commander’ Bijoy Das and Montu Saikia, he said. The militants said that the new cadres had to trek several days to reach the camps set up in a forest area in Myanmar. The ULFA cadre laid down one 7.65mm pistol and 5 rounds of 7.65mm ammunition. The KLNLF militant, Terong, who was the ‘finance commander’ of the outfit, laid down a 9-mm pistol.

  • November 30: Reports also mentioned that the ULFA and NSCN-K were conducting joint training for 30 newly recruited ULFA cadres in Mahadevpur, Pongchau and Bordumsa Circles of Lohit, Tirap and Changlang Districts to prepare for a possible Army crackdown in Assam and Nagaland.

  • November 29: The suspected ULFA militants threatened a senior journalist of a local satellite news channel in Guwahati, in what was seen as a ‘reaction’ to a talk show telecast in the channel on the insurgency issue in the State. Nitumoni Saikia, executive editor of News Live, was threatened by two armed militants who came on a motor-cycle at Tiniali zoo in the Guwahati city and cautioned him to avoid airing comments on the ULFA. The incident occurred minutes after a talk show, hosted by Sakia, was aired projecting the ULFA in poor light.

  • November 27: SFs neutralised a bunker near a bamboo grove in the backyard of Harimal Barman, a resident of Angardhowa Bilpara village in Baganpara area under Borbori Police Station in Baksa District that was frequently used by ULFA militants to draw up plans. The bunker, eight feet deep and six feet wide, accommodates more than five persons. "At least three militants took shelter inside the bunker last night," the Superintendent of Police, Nalbari, Jitmal Doley, said. "The militants take shelter inside it usually at night," a Police officer said, quoting Harimal, who informed the Police about the bunker. Sources said the Police came to know about the bunker from a photograph in a mobile phone found on a militant, Papu Sarania, who was killed in an encounter at Tihu.

    The ULFA ‘leaders’ Sasha Choudhury and Chitraban Hazarika, who were produced before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup for the third time since their arrest, were further remanded to another 10 days’ of Police custody. Though the Assam Police’s SOU sought 18 days Police custody of both the ULFA ‘leaders’ in connection with the January 1, 2009 blasts under Paltan Bazar Police Station and Bhangagarh Police Station, the court, however, limited the custody to another 10 days, advocate Bijon Mahajan informed. The court also directed that both the ULFA leaders would be kept in the SOU headquarters in Kahilipara. It also directed investigating officers from both the Police Stations to question them at the SOU headquarters itself during the course of the Police custody.

  • November 26: One ULFA cadre was arrested by Police in the evening from a Tezpur-bound passenger bus near Tezpur Mission Chariali in Sonitpur District. Police sources said that the arrestee was later identified as Rupam Boro alias Ujjal Bora (22) of Debendranagar area under Barghat Police Outpost in Tezpur. During interrogation he confessed that he joined the outfit in 2006 and was a cadre of the 27th Battalion of ULFA.

    Mina Gogoi alias Akoni Gogoi alias Binita Bora, a woman ‘seargent’ of 28th battalion of ULFA, was arrested while four of her associates managed to escape in a joint operation by SFs at Lahdoigarh in Namtola under Sonari Police Station in Sivasagar District near Assam-Nagaland border. She is the wife of Ramen Dadhumiya, ‘area commander’ of the 28th battalion. She later confessed that the outfit had planned to carry out blasts in the Charaideo subdivision of Sivasagar District. A five kilogrammes of IED, a pistol, some photographs and a register containing details of funds collected by the outfit in Charaideo subdivision were recovered from her.

    Police launched a massive search to recover five kilogrammes of RDX which was kept in the house of Krishna Rajbongshi at Goroimari Panigaon in Nalbari District, who had allegedly planted one of the bicycle bombs in Nalbari on November 22. Krishna, who was arrested in the night of November 25, also confessed before Police that there were three more bicycles stuffed with explosives and ready to be detonated. A Police Officer said Krishna did not know about the location of the cycles. "We are trying to find out," he said, adding that Krishna was still being interrogated. Meanwhile, a college lecturer Narayan Thakuria and ULFA linkman Kumud Thakuria were also arrested for their suspected involvement in the twin blasts. "We only found the pit but the explosives which were in it were missing. Probably ULFA removed the RDX after they heard of Krishna’s arrest," the Police Officer said. "Five kilogrammes of RDX can have a devastating impact depending on where and how the explosives are placed," he said.

    The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on November 25 told a delegation of the People’s Committee for Peace Initiatives in Assam (PCPIA) that the Government is ready for talks with the ULFA provided the outfit abjures violence. Chidambaram also told the delegation that the PCPIA should try to persuade the ULFA to come for talks with the Government. The delegation was accompanied by a Parliamentarian belonging to the AGP party, Biren Baishya. The delegation that is in Delhi to lobby for resumption of the dialogue with ULFA has so far met Union Minister of State in PMO Prithviraj Chavan on November 25 to submit a memorandum to restart the peace process stalled since last couple of years. However, the possibility of the Centre heeding to their demands appears remote, with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram expressing his skepticism on the ground that the remaining top leaders are all based abroad and not keen for negotiations. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs is of the opinion that ULFA, currently under pressure because of the crackdown in Bangladesh and arrest of two top leaders, may be at its old game of seeking to buy time by throwing the bait of peace talks.

    The ULFA’s central committee leader Mithinga Daimary, currently lodged in the Guwahati Jail, said that the ULFA was not responsible for the recent bomb blasts at Nalbari, adding that peace talks between the banned outfit and the Union Government was the only way to find a political solution to the conflict.

  • November 25: One top ranking ULFA militant, identified as Mohan Roy alias Mama alias Sukumar Kurmi, was shot dead in an encounter with SFs at No. 2 area of Bishnupur in Chirang District around 10.30 AM in the morning. Police sources confirmed that the slain ULFA militant was involved in the recent blasts at Nalbari. He was the ‘second-in-command of the 709th battalion’ of ULFA.

    The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on November 24 stated in Parliament that the Government was not going to relent in its operations against the ULFA, reports Telegraph. He said, "Owing to the counter-insurgency operations, ULFA has come under tremendous pressure. Its leadership is in disarray. Key ULFA leaders are in prison. Recently, two ULFA leaders surrendered to the Indian SFs. Three ULFA leaders are believed to be abroad and there are reports of serious differences among them. Against this background, it is our assessment that the recent incidents manifest the desperation of the banned ULFA. The State Government and the SFs are determined to intensify the counter-insurgency operations against ULFA and Ranjan Daimary fraction of NDFB."

    The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa said the Minister’s statement was a reflection of the Government’s "colonial" mindset. He mentioned, "Our stand is clear. We will not fall at India’s feet just for the sake of talks." "The minister’s comments only confirm the fact that India does not have the courage to sit across the table on the issue of sovereignty," Rajkhowa said, adding that the outfit was keen on a political settlement with Delhi but not at the cost of its own pride and dignity.

    A senior member of the PCG, Mukul Mahanta, said that the given stand of both the Centre and ULFA, any hope of a "negotiated" settlement had all but evaporated.

  • November 24: Sentinel quoting intelligence sources said a group of the ULFA militants comprising 10 cadres, including a woman cadre, has entered Assam through the Assam-Nagaland border and sheltering in its adjoining areas to carry out subversive activities in the District. Sources also said the proscribed militant group has been restructuring itself in five upper Assam districts since last couple of months. Sources said the militant group has been carrying out a new membership drive in upper Assam Districts particularly in Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar.

  • November 23: A ULFA cadre, Dhanti Dutta, was arrested by the Assam Rifles personnel at Lungwa-Phomching road in Mon District. One 303 rifle along with magazine and 10 live rounds and other incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

  • November 23: The ‘chairman’ of the ULFA, Arabinda Rajkhowa, condemned the blasts in Nalbari town on November 22 and said that the blasts were aimed at derailing the peace process. In a statement sent to the media through e-mail, the ULFA ‘chairman’ said that the blasts were triggered off by the enemies of the indigenous people of Assam. He called upon all concerned, including the militant outfits, to desist from killing innocent people and asked the authorities to pay adequate compensation to the families of those killed.

  • November 22: Suspected ULFA militants triggered two powerful bomb blasts barely 50 meters from the Sadar Police Station in Nalbari town, which killed seven people and injured 54 others at around 10 AM in the morning. The IEDs, planted on two bicycles, were kept in front of a tea stall and a saloon which were blown up. The deceased were identified as Paban Thakur, the owner of a nearby saloon, Sikandar Thakur, an employee of the saloon, Dipu Das, a driver, Ganesh Das, a businessman, Keshab Das, an employee of an insurance company and Mahabat Ali, a gaonburah (village head man) of Nalbari town. The Superintendent of Police of Nalbari District, Jitmal Doley, said that ULFA militants are suspected to be behind the blasts.

    The ULFA is responsible for the Nalbari blasts, said Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma in a press meet organised at Silchar Medical College.

    The ULFA denied its involvement in twin bomb blasts in Nalbari. "ULFA is in no way involved in the bomb blasts and it is just a conspiracy by a certain section to derail the talks process," Hira Sarania, the 'commander' of the 709th Battalion of ULFA, told a news channel. "The allegation is totally motivated and has been made to discredit the organisation. There have been several occasions in the past too when such misinformation had been made against us," Sarania added.

  • November 20: The SFs shot dead a ULFA militant, a hitman of the outfit who led the Golaghat train attack, at Padumguri under Jalukbari Police station in Guwahati city. A police official said two suspected militants had got down from a truck on Guwahati bypass (National Highway 37) in the morning and were walking down Binoy Tamuli Path at Padumguri under Jalukbari Police Station when a Police team spotted them and asked them to stop. "They started running while firing at us. One of the militants, who was carrying a backpack, managed to escape under the cover of fog and darkness. But his accomplice was hit by bullets," he added. A 7.65mm bore pistol and three rounds of ammunition were recovered from the site.

  • November 19: The ULFA has set up bases in China and other foreign countries with the help of money extorted in the State, two senior ULFA leaders, Chitrabon Hazarika and Sashadhar Choudhury, have reportedly told the Police during interrogation. ULFA 'foreign secretary' Sashadhar Choudhury and 'finance secretary' Chitraban Hazarika, now in Police remand since November 6, 2009, told interrogators that apart from Bangladesh they have bases in China and other foreign countries. "Millions of rupees have been extorted from Assam and transferred to ULFA leaders in Bangladesh, China and other countries where they have established hideouts," the Special Operations Unit (SOU) of Assam Police quoted the two leaders as confessing. Several foreign agencies and NGOs provided logistic assistance to the ULFA leaders in foreign countries. The interrogation report was submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Guwahati. Sashadhar Choudhury and Chitrabon Hazarika also confessed that their 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah is not only procuring arms from Chinese manufacturers but also selling them to militant outfits such as NDFB, NLFT, ATTF and CPI-Maoist.

  • November 17: Suspected ULFA militants blew up a petrol-laden train at Changpool in the Golaghat District. The train was bound for the State of Uttar Pradesh from the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL). A railway spokesperson said that the train with 48 wagons of high-speed diesel and petrol from the NRL caught fire near Changpool. At least 20 wagons went up in flames and a loss of INR 100 million has been estimated, officials said. "We initially thought that the fire broke out after the train jumped the rails. But now we believe that it was because of a powerful explosion on the rail track. We have managed to recover wires and other materials used in triggering blasts from the site," a senior Assam Police official said. At least 10 more wagons were derailed and the petroleum product spilled on to the ground. The area is a stronghold of both the ULFA and AANLA.

  • November 15: Former ULFA 'spokesman' Sunil Nath said that a small ULFA team from Assam went to Jaffna in Sri Lanka in the early 1990s when the LTTE controlled the northern peninsula. "We got in touch with the LTTE through a Tamil Nadu politician." Sunil Nath said in a telephonic interview from Assam. According to Sunil Nath, who has since quit the ULFA and is now a journalist, two ULFA militants were picked to spend some time getting training from the LTTE. But the ULFA men returned to India within a week.

    The ULFA leaders, Sashadhar Choudhury and Chitraban Hazarika, claimed that the 'commander-in-chief' of the outfit, Paresh Baruah, was the main person running the group currently. They claimed that Baruah keeps shifting to countries like China, Myanmar and Thailand and he still has strong contacts in China.

  • November 12: The 'cultural secretary' of ULFA, Pranati Deka, said that peace talks between the Government and the ULFA are possible if the former wants so. Replying to a reporter's queries when she was being produced in the court in Guwahati in connection with a case against her, Deka said "The ULFA problems can be solved if the Government of India takes steps with due respect to our demands. I believe in peaceful solution to the ULFA problems through talks."

  • November 11: 19 militants belonging to the NDFB, KLNLF, AANLA and ULFA surrendered before the Dah Division's headquarter at Dinjan in Dibrugarh District. Speaking on the occasion, Major General B.S. Sachar, the GOC of Dah Division, attributed the large-scale surrender to the peace initiatives of the Government and support from the local people.

  • November 10: A group of newly trained ULFA militants have reportedly been asked to enter Assam and launch attacks to avenge the arrest of the outfit's leaders Chitrabon Hazarika and Sasha Choudhury, intelligence sources have revealed, triggering a security alert along the India-Myanmar border. A source said radio intercepts over the last few days suggested that a group comprising about 25 cadres from the 28th battalion had been asked to break up into smaller units to enter Assam. "We believe there could be strikes in retaliation to the arrest of Choudhury and Hazarika to show ULFA is as strong as ever," a source in the Army said. The 28th battalion had recruited about 50-60 cadres in 2008, soon after the Alpha and the Charlie companies of the battalion came over-ground by declaring a unilateral cease-fire. "These cadres have completed training in Myanmar and Nagaland's Mon District and are ready for battle," the unnamed official said.

  • November 9: The dawn-to-dusk Assam bandh (shutdown) called by the ULFA passed of peacefully, evoking mixed response. The outfit called the bandh in protest against the arrest of two of its top leaders, Sasha Choudhury and Chitraban Hazarika.

  • November 8: Two unidentified ULFA cadres were shot dead by the Police in an encounter at Guardal on the Tihu-Akhara Road in Nalbari District in the evening. Police sources said that two ULFA cadres laid an ambush targeting Nalbari SP Jitmol Doley and fired at the SP and other personnel accompanying him. In the encounter that followed, the two ULFA cadres were shot dead. Two 9 mm pistols were recovered from the possession of the slain militants.

  • November 7: Two top ULFA leaders, Sashadhar Choudhury and Chitraban Hazairka, were produced by the Special Operation Unit of the Assam Police in the court of Chief Metropolitan Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup. Although the Police sought 14-day custody of the two, the court remanded them to 10 days, said Bijan Mahajan, senior advocate and counsel for the two ULFA leaders. The ULFA leaders, believed to have been arrested in Dhaka in the midnight of November 1 and handed over to the BSF in Tripura on November 6, were flown in a chartered aircraft to the city and immediately taken away to headquarters of the Special Branch of Assam Police at Kahilipara. However, replying to questions from journalists, Choudhury said they had not surrendered and that Bangladesh Police commandos arrested them. Of the 16 members of the ULFA's central executive committee, four are in a Guwahati jail: 'vice-chairman' Pradip Gogoi, 'adviser' Bhimkanta Buragohain, 'cultural secretary' Pranati Deka, 'central publicity secretary' Mithinga Daimari. Another leader Ramu Mech is on parole.

    The ULFA called for a 12-hour State wide general shutdown from 6 a.m. on November 9 demanding unconditional release of the two arrested leaders. In a statement issued through an e-mail, ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa described the arrest of the two leaders as a "ploy to sabotage the process of finding a political solution to the problem and destroy ULFA militarily."

  • November 6: The 'foreign secretary' Sashadhar Choudhury and 'finance secretary' Chitraban Hazarika of ULFA surrendered before the BSF personnel at Gokul Nagar BSF camp, 20 kilometres south of Agartala city, along the India-Bangladesh international border in the Tripura in the night. Bangladesh Security Agencies neutralised some hideouts of leaders of the ULFA in the night of November 1, prompting the cadres to flee. Internal clashes among ULFA cadres are also said to have forced some militants to flee. During interrogation, the ULFA leaders confessed they fled the neighbouring country as they were facing threat to their lives from their colleagues, the official sources said. The internal sources, however, said that the two ULFA leaders were handed over by the BDR to BSF after DGFI personnel picked them up from a safe house in Uttara area of Dhaka following high-level diplomatic intervention by India. As reported on November 5, India had opened diplomatic channels as soon as it was confirmed that the leaders were detained by security agencies in Dhaka on November 1-night. Meanwhile, sources reported that the former KLO 'chief' Jiban Singh, who is presently under the custody of Bangladesh Police, has reportedly informed the Bangladesh security forces about the whereabouts of the ULFA leaders in Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities had assured India of greater cooperation in the coming months against the anti-India militant outfits based there and also of the possible handing over of top leaders like Ranjan Daimary of the pro-sovereignty faction of NDFB and Biswamohan Debbarma of NLFT. The sudden crackdown by Dhaka is seen as part of a fresh initiative to please India ahead of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ensuing visit to India.

  • November 5: Following confirmation of detention of two top ULFA leaders by Bangladesh, India opened diplomatic channels to get them back into the country. The 'deputy commander-in-chief' of ULFA, Raju Baruah, however, claimed that their two leaders were already handed over to India by Bangladesh. Without naming India, Raju Baruah told a section of media in Assam through e-mail or telephonic talk that Bangladeshi intelligence officials arrested the duo from the Sector 3 area in Dhaka and handed them over to the "enemy". Raju Baruah further said that Bangladesh Police had raided some other areas in Dhaka where, they believed, the ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa was hiding. He also warned Bangladesh that the sovereignty of the country would be at stake if it did not set Sashadhar and Chitraban free. Meanwhile, the Indian Home Ministry officials denied this claim made by the ULFA.

    Suspected ULFA militants shot dead a 13-year-old nephew of a surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre, apparently in a case of mistaken identity, in the Balichapori village under Garmurh Police station of Majuli in the Jorhat District in the night. The Police also recovered two empty cartridges of AK-47 rifles from the incident site. Jintu Bora, a Class VIII student of Kathimotia High School, was shot dead when he and his uncle, Dipak Bora, a surrendered ULFA cadre, were about to enter their house at Balichapori village under around 11pm (IST) after returning from Ras festivities. Sources said Dipak was the target of the ULFA militants as he was a Police informer and had played a crucial role in the killing of ULFA militant Amrit Dutta, a key accused in the Sanjoy Ghose murder case. Dutta was killed in an encounter with SFs in Majuli early 2009. Dipak had joined ULFA in 1995 and was a cadre of the Bravo Company of 28th Battalion and later surrendered in 2007.

  • November 4: Dulen Saikia, a surrendered ULFA militant, was arrested by the Guwahati City Police on charges of collecting extortion money in the name of the ULFA outfit.

  • November 3: Two persons were arrested by the Police when they were trying to extort money in the guise of ULFA cadres in capital Dispur. "The fake ULFA cadres were arrested after a tip-off," Police said.

  • November 2: Two suspected ULFA militants were arrested by the Security Force personnel at an unidentified location in the Morigaon District. A 9 mm pistol with six rounds of ammunition and a motorcycle were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.

  • November 1: The 'foreign secretary' Sashadhar Choudhury and 'finance secretary' Chitraban Hazarika of the ULFA were arrested by intelligence officials from the Sector 3 area of Dhaka in the midnight.

  • October 29: The Union Government initiated its first round of formal talks with the pro-talks faction of the ULFA. Leaders of the pro-talks faction, Mrinal Hazarika, Jiten Dutta and Prabal Neog, held nearly an hour-long meeting with the Assistant Director of Intelligence Bureau, R.N. Ravi, in Guwahati. "We hope that the talks will lead us to the right direction," Mrinal Hazarika said after the meeting. The pro-talks ULFA faction had earlier announced it was giving up its demand for sovereignty or independence and instead wanted greater autonomy, inner-line permit, total sealing of international border etc for Assam. There were no representatives from the Assam Government in the meeting.

  • October 25: The ULFA alleged that the Government of India is not interested in restoration of permanent peace in Assam. In a statement e-mailed to the media, the ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said that the Government of India was adopting different yardstick for talks with different outfits. He said the Government has been demanding that the ULFA should surrender weapons for talks, while, talks with Naga outfits have been going on for years without surrender of arms. Rajkhowa said the Chief Minister of West Bengal even released as many as 23 members of Maoist groups to hold talks with them and the Government of India has been adopting a separate policy only for Assam.

  • October 23: A suspected ULFA militant, believed to be on a bombing mission to the Guwahati city, was shot dead in an encounter with Police at Pamohi under Gorchuk Police Station around 2 AM (IST). A 9mm pistol and a polythene bag containing one-and-a-half kilograms of explosive powder, detonators and timers were recovered from the incident site. "On examination, bomb experts said the powder could be TNT. However, we have sent samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Kahilipara for confirmation," the Police official said.

  • October 22: Five ULFA militants, including a girl, surrendered before the Assam Police in Goalpara District. They were identified as Jayanta Rabha, Machin Rabha, Dulendra Rabha, Durgeswar Rabha and Damayanti Rabha. They deposited an AK-56 rifle and two pistols.

    Two cadres of the 28th battalion of the ULFA surrendered before the Dibrugarh Deputy Commissioner Gyanendra Dev Tripathy in Dibrugarh District. The duo was identified as Sontu Changmai alias Bijoy Bailung and Pranab Duwara alias Simanta Gogoi. They deposited two pistols along with eight rounds live ammunition and a radio set.

  • October 20: The Bangladesh Government on October 19 launched a massive hunt for arresting some cadres of two Indian militant outfits — United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), including its ‘chief’ D.K. Roy, according to Sentinel. In the light of information extracted from ‘military commander’ of the ULFA Bimol Roy during his interrogation at the Task Force Interrogation (TFI) cell Security Force personnel are trying to arrest the militants, sources close to the TFI cell said. Bimol confessed that he was an active member of ULFA, the sources said. D.K. Roy, chief of the KLO, provided Bimol with shelter at his Dhaka’s Pallabi residence. D.K. Roy, who is suspected to have stolen the Nobel Prize citation of Rabindranath Tagore from Shanti Niketan in India, has been residing in Bangladesh for many years, the sources added. A team of the Detective Branch arrested Bimol from the Pallabi residence of D. K. Roy on October 6. After the expiry of remand, the Police also took Bimol on a fresh three-day remand on October 8.

  • October 19: A cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from Amarpur and Deopani Reserve forests under Sadiya Police Station in Tinsukia District. The cache, hidden in sacks and buried by suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants in the forests, include one AK-56 rifle, one SLR, a grenade launcher, four 9-mm pistols, four pen pistols, two grenades, 13 pistol magazines, 35 kilograms of RDX and some currency.

    The Security Forces recovered a letter which shows evidence of the ULFA purchasing arms from the LTTE of Sri Lanka. The letter, written in Assamese, mentioned that the outfit had paid a huge amount of money to the LTTE very recently to purchase arms. "The money was probably paid just before the downfall of the LTTE," a senior army officer said. Although there were unconfirmed reports earlier about ULFA’s links with the LTTE, the letter was the first hard evidence of such links.

  • October 18: Five militants, including a woman, of the 28th battalion of the ULFA were arrested. Two militants, hailing from Amguri in the Sibsagar District, were arrested from the Hengerabari area of Guwahati city. In addition, three more militants, including the woman, were arrested from the Gandhibasti area of Guwahati. A 9-mm pistol along with some arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants. While two of them were identified as a militant couple from Sibsagar, the other one hailed from Sualkuchi near Guwahati.

  • October 14: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the Union Government would hold talks with the ULFA only after it lays down arms and warned that otherwise Security Forces would take appropriate action.

    The Government of Bangladesh has directed the Security Forces to keep vigilance to prevent any kind of subversive activities by the ULFA in the country. State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku told. Referring to the recent crackdown on militants, the minister said no militants would be able to escape the dragnet.

  • October 12: The Army personnel arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Paresh Deka, from Chamatiapara village near Deomornai area in Darrang District.

  • October 11: A ULFA militant, identified as Prasanta Bora, was arrested by the Police from New Balighat area of Lakhimpur District. Bora belongs to the 28th Battalion of the outfit.

  • October 7: One ULFA militant was shot dead during an encounter with the Army personnel at Donghap hill under Dokmoka Police Station in Karbi Anglong District at around 4.10am (IST). However, another ULFA militant was managed to escape taking advantage of the dense forest. An Italy-made pistol along with some empty cartridges was recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • October 3: Three ULFA militants were shot dead by troops during an encounter near Kendubari village in the Nalbari District. "Based on specific intelligence about the presence of three ULFA militants in the area, an army column laid an ambush and there was a firefight in which the militants were shot dead," an Army official said. A carbine, pistols, grenades, detonators and gelatine sticks were recovered from the possession of the slain militants. "Probably the militants were planning to strike during the Durga Puja festival and hence carrying explosives," the official added.

  • September 26: Two unidentified militants shot dead a surrendered ULFA cadre, Gunojit Bhorali (30), at Baganpara in Baksa District.

  • September 23: The ULFA is reported to have shifted its bases and training camps from Bangladesh to Kachin in eastern Myanmar. Army intelligence sources said there was credible information that the ULFA had set up camps in Kachin jointly with militant groups of Manipur like the PLA and UNLF. The ULFA has made the move with the help of Kachin rebels, mainly the KIA, which is in a cease-fire with the military regime in Myanmar, they added. "It is back to square one for ULFA. During its initial days, the outfit had its training camps in Kachin but later shifted to Bangladesh. Now, the outfit is back to Kachin, which is indeed disturbing news for us," a source said.

  • September 18: The Police arrested two militants of the '27th battalion' of ULFA, identified as Satya Baishya and Abdul Mazan Bora, from Baihata Chariali in Kamrup District. A revolver and three rounds of ammunition, a motorcycle, ULFA's letter pad and some extortion notes were recovered from their possession.

    The SFs arrested an ULFA linkman, Jaiprakash Rai (27) of Khudra Derugaon Suterpara village in Kokrajhar District.

  • September 16: Police arrested two ULFA militants at Panitema and Dhirenpra respectively in Kamrup District. Police arrested Hemanta Deka (30) at Panitema Village under Kamalpur Police station. Following his confession, another ULFA militant, Bakul Boro, was arrested at Dhirenpara in Guwahati. Some writing pads of the outfit and a number of mobile SIM cards were recovered from their possession. The arrested ULFA cadres belong to the 709th battalion.

    Police arrested two ULFA linkmen who demanded extortion money of INR four hundred thousand from a school teacher of Mulabari area in Baihata Chariali. The duo were identified as Bhabajyoti Choudhury and Kalyan Nath of Baihata Chariali.

    Assam Government's Principal Secretary (Home), Subhas Das, visited the Kakopathar designated camp of the pro-talks faction of the ULFA in Tinsukia District, where he held a discussion with its leaders.

  • September 15: The self-styled 'sergeant major' of 28th battalion of the ULFA, Niren Sharma alias Tarun Gogoi, surrendered before the SFs during a surrender ceremony held at Dinjan Military Station in Dibrugarh District. He deposited one AK 56 rifle and a hand grenade. Niren, who hailed from Sivasagar District, had been with the outfit since 1987 and had received military training in Bhutan in 1997. His wife Devika Gohain, a 'second lieutenant' of the 28th battalion of ULFA, was arrested by the Army personnel on September 3.

  • September 10: SFs arrested two ULFA militants, identified as Binoy Baruah alias Dibyajyoti Gohain (24), a resident of Kathalguri village, and Tilanku Moran alias Satyajit Moran alias Sanakya (26), a resident of Mamaroni village, from Kakojan in the Tinsukhia District. Sources said that the SFs started operations based on reports about extortion demands being placed on small tea estates and businessmen in the area. Two 9-mm pistols, seven live rounds, extortion pads, mobile phones and other incriminating material were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants. Sources added that these two militants were absconders from the ULFA cease-fire group camp at Kakopathar.

    The TADA court in Guwahati sentenced Ronkur Dutta, a senior ULFA cadre, to life imprisonment. Dutta was accused of murdering a Police officer.

  • September 7: Police arrested one suspected ULFA cadre, Hemchandra Moran (30), son of Umesh Moran of Bormesai village of Kokopathar, on charges of extortion from Chabua area of Dibrugarh District. The Police arrested Hemchandra when he along with another militant went to Dikam Sessa for collection of extortion money. However, the other militant managed to escape. Police recovered a two wheeler used by the militant.

  • September 6: A ‘Sergeant Major’ of the 709th Battalion of the ULFA, Pranay Ray alias Prabin alias Manaranjan (32), was shot dead by the Security Force personnel in a search operation at Kalipukri under Kokrajhar Police Station of Kokrajhar District. Police sources said that the slain militant was taking shelter in the house of one Biren Roy at Tilapara village. One 7.62 mm pistol with 19 live ammunition, one Chinese-made grenade, four mobile handsets, a satellite phone, one detonator, two empty cartridges and incriminating documents were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • September 3: The SFs arrested a ‘second lieutenant’ of the ULFA, Devika Gohain, from Titlaghar in the Sivasagar District. Devika, the wife of ULFA leader Niren Sarma, was arrested from the residence of Ajit Bharali.

  • September 1: A ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA, Niren Sarma, was shot dead in an encounter with the SFs at Bhaskarbari Chariali in the Dibrugarh District. One pistol, six rounds of ammunition and a mobile phone were recovered from his possession.

  • August 30: The two employees of a Garo Hills-based cement company, abducted by suspected ULFA militants on August 21, were released in the Rongjuli area of Goalpara District. According to sources, the duo, Virgo Cement Industries manager Sambhu Dhanuka and chief engineer PK Hori, were abducted from near the cement plant at Damas on the Meghalaya-Assam border in the afternoon. They were held hostage for ransom at Simantala village in Goalpara District. Though it is not yet known who the abductors were, Assam Police suspect that the Viper Rabha Army, a lesser-known militant group, was involved in the incident. Viper Rabha Army is believed to enjoy the patronage of Assam-based ULFA. The ULFA had reportedly hired the services of Viper Rabha Army for its activities in Goalpara and parts of Garo Hills. However, the ULFA has denied any role in the abduction.

  • August 29: SFs shot dead two ULFA militants at Nagapara hills under Boko Police station in the Kamrup District. Army sources said about four militants were taking shelter in a house and when the SFs raided the house, the militants opened fire. In the ensuing gunbattle, two militants died while two others escaped under cover of darkness. The site of the incident is about 50 kilometers from the capital city Guwahati. Though the two militants are yet to be identified, Police claimed that both were from the 709th battalion of ULFA and probably new recruits. One five kilograms of improvised explosive device, a grenade, one 9-mm pistol, ammunition and an unspecified amount of Bangladeshi currency notes were recovered from the possession of the slain militants.

  • August 27: Two unidentified ULFA militants were shot dead at Golbeel under Barma Police Station in the Baksa District in the morning.

  • August 26: SF personnel arrested three ULFA cadres, identified as Dilip Kalita alias Pranjal Deka, Thaneshwar Kalita alias Thanu and Dina Kalita from Debananda Satra village in Mangaldai District, reports Sentinel. According to sources the militants were belong to 27th Battalion of ULFA. Five black extortion notes were recovered from their possession.

  • August 23: The Government of India asked Bangladesh to deport ULFA leader Anup Chetia, reports Assam Tribune. Chetia, whose real name is Golap Baruah, has been in jail since his arrest in Dhaka in January 1998 from Shyamoli area under the Foreigners Act and the Passports Act. After completion of Chetia’s jail term, India has asked Bangladesh to handover him. Bangladesh has so far not given any response but India is hopeful that it would accede to the request considering the new Government’s resolve to root out terrorism and the new impetus being imparted to bilateral ties. Chetia has been seeking political asylum in Bangladesh or deportation to any country other than India but those petitions are pending.

    Sentinel quoting an unconfirmed report said that the Union Government has already contacted the ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah through middlemen and expressed its willingness for unconditional peace talks with the outfit outside India. The ULFA is yet to react to the recent media report that Paresh Baruah was arrested from a hideout in Manipur.

    Police arrested one ULFA militant, Montu Kachari of Numuligarh, and a linkman, Tapan Bora of Baruah Gaon, from Bokakhat town in the Golaghat District. Some extortion notes were recovered from their possession.

  • August 21: Two senior employees of a cement factory were abducted by suspected ULFA militants from near their factory at Damas area in the afternoon, when they were traveling in a vehicle to their main office at Dudhnoi of Goalpara District in Assam. They were identified as Sambu Danuka and P.K. Hori. Subsequently, the Police recovered the abandoned vehicle from Miapara village, five kilometers away from Damas. Sources said the prime suspect was the ‘108 battalion’ of the ULFA led by Gulit Das which was operating in the area. Unconfirmed reports indicated that the ULFA carried out the abduction in retaliation for the company not complying with its demand for a huge amount of ‘donations’.

  • August 20: Telegraph reports that the pro-talks group of the ULFA has sought an urgent discussion with the Assam Government as their cadres were getting frustrated after waiting for more than a year. "If we do not get a positive response, we will have to decide on our future course of action," Prabal Neog, a leader of the pro-talks faction, who has been camping in the capital Guwahati since August 19, told. He said he would meet Principal Secretary (Home) S.C. Das as soon as he returns from Delhi. Neog said the cadres were frustrated and it had become difficult for the leaders to keep on convincing them that there would be some progress. He said several cadres have already deserted the designated camps in the past few months and a few have joined the ULFA while some have surrendered to the Security Forces. Jiten Dutta, another leader of the group, said the blame would rest entirely on the Government if talks failed this time and the cadres took some drastic steps. "We will not say now as to what we will do but we will take some decisive steps. The government has turned a deaf ear towards the issue. Despite repeated requests to clear its stand, there is simply no response from the government. This will be our final meeting with the government as we want to clear the air once and for all," he warned. The cadres of the pro-talks group are at present housed in three designated camps in the Tinsukia and Nalbari Districts.

  • August 19: The CBI filed a chargesheet in Dr P.C. Ram abduction case before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Guwahati and stated that the ULFA was paid INR 3.2 million on June 5, 2007 as the first instalment of the demanded ransom. The money was handed over to an ULFA cadre, Tapan Rai, near the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on the same day. The abductors had demanded INR 2100 million for the release of the senior Food Corporation of India official. Amongst the 17 persons charge-sheeted, top ranking leader and ‘commander’ of the ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA, Hira Sarania, has been named as the prime conspirator. Rabiram Basumatary, the driver of FCI Executive Director Dr. P.C. Ram, was also named as one of the conspirators, though his name along with six others did not feature in the chargesheet as they had died during the course of the investigation. All the accused have been charge sheeted under Sections 120(b) (criminal conspiracy) and 364(a) (abduction for ransom) of the Indian Penal Code. Six Police officials who were arrested earlier in this connection have, however, been acquitted. Dr Ram, who was abducted from near his Sreenagar residence on April 17, remained in the abductor’s custody till his death in a cross-fire between Police and his abductors on July 12, 2007.

  • August 16: A ULFA militant, identified as Khogen Konwar alias Nayan Jyoti Gogoi, was arrested from Bhojo railway station under Sonari Police station in Sivasagar District.

  • August 14: Seven TNT slabs, each weighing about 1.5 kilograms, 10 electronic detonators, six 9-volt batteries and a bundle of fuse wire, were recovered near Ukium on the outskirts of Guwahati along the Assam-Meghalaya border. The arrest of a ULFA cadre, Mintu Rabha alias Raju, from Jyotinagar in Guwahati led to the recovery. The explosives were hidden under stones. A 9-mm pistol was also recovered from the possession of Rabha.

  • August 13: A ULFA bomb expert heading for oil town Duliajan was arrested by a combined team of the Army, Central Reserve Police Force personnel and local Police from a night super bus near Dirai under Rajgarh Police Outpost of Dibrugarh District.

  • The BSF personnel arrested one active ULFA linkman, identified as Mukti Bora (32), at Pushpa Bandha Chaudang Pathar village in Golaghat District. According to official sources, Bora tried to escape when the Police entered his house during the operation. The BSF recovered a demand draft amounting to INR five hundred thousand, signed by a senior cadre of the '28th battalion' of ULFA, Golap Sonwai.

  • August 12: A 13-member team of woman cadres belonging to the ULFA and the Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB entered the Guwahati city to trigger subversive activities ahead of the Independence Day (August 15), latest intelligence inputs gathered by the Assam Police stated.

  • August 11: Quoting sources in the intelligence agencies, Shillong Times has reported that the ULFA and NDFB have already set up temporary hideouts in Bhutan, contrary to the claims made by Bhutan that Indian militants do not put their bases anymore in that country. This report from an Indian intelligence agency came in the backdrop of the claim at the Seventh Border Coordination Development Meeting held at Thimphu (Bhutan), which dismissed reports about the ULFA and NDFB militants setting up permanent camps on its soil. According to official sources in Guwahati, the ULFA and NDFB militants were reorganising and attempting to sneak into Bhutan. New Delhi has reportedly informed Thimphu of the intrusion of about 30 militants into its soil. "We have information that they (ULFA and NDFB) have set up temporary hideouts there in the wake of stepped up counter-insurgency operations, especially in Lower Assam," an officer from the Military Intelligence said.

  • August 10: The NDFB, ULFA, KLO of Assam, Manipur Peoples Liberation Front (MPLF) of Manipur and Tripura Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF) of Tripura jointly called a General Strike from 1am (IST) to 6.30pm (IST) on August 15 in the Northeast and called for to boycott of Independence Day.

  • August 9: Suspected ULFA militants triggered a low-intensity explosion on a railway track at Harimura, around six kilometres from the Goalpara railway station in Goalpara District, damaging five sleepers. However, there were no casualties. The explosive went off ahead of a Guwahati-bound goods train. Sources said the driver had heard the blast and slowed the train. Railway sources said the train moved on after the sleepers were replaced. Police sources suspect that the Saraighat Express might have been the target of the blast.

  • August 7: 28 militants of various outfits surrendered before the Assam Rifles at Lekhapani in Tinsukia District. The surrendered militants included eight ULFA cadres, eight AANLA cadres, three NSCN-IM cadres, seven NSCN-K cadres and three NSCN-U cadres.

    Two senior ULFA cadres surrendered with a cache of arms and ammunition in the Tezpur town of Sonitpur District. The surrendered cadres were identified as Dhaneswar Borkakoty alias Bhaiti and Prafulla Saikia alias Bahni Tamuly. Dhaneswar had joined the outfit in 1990 while the latter had joined in 1989. Dhaneswar deposited a cache of arms and ammunition comprising one AK 56 rifle, one AK series magazine, 90 rounds live cartridges of AK series, 750 grams of RDX, 3.8 kilograms of TNT explosives, six PTED switches, one 1.6 kilogram IED and one detonator, while Prafulla surrendered one M 20 pistol, two M 20 pistol magazine, 10 rounds live cartridge, one PTED switch, 800 grams TNT explosives and one detonator.

  • August 5: Police arrested a linkman of '709 battalion' of the ULFA, identified as Mintu Kalita (22), son of Krishna Ram Kalita, a resident of Bamundi Kailashpur under Saulkuchi Police Station of Kamrup District.

    One ULFA militant, Golok Deka alias Jitu Saikia (28), was arrested by the SFs from Morigaon town of Morigaon District at 11am (IST). Three mobile phones and some incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

    Army personnel neutralized an ULFA transit camp from the Namsang reserve forest along the Buri Dehing River in Dibrugarh District. Two revolvers, two .12 bore guns, a magazine of AK-47 rifle with 120 rounds, explosives, cordex, detonators, combat dresses and utensils were recovered from the camp.

  • August 2: The SFs arrested a women cadre of the ULFA, identified as Rumi Baishya of Hatitari Gaon, at Musalpur under Baksa Police Station in Baksa District. 23 Aircel and Reliance SIM cards and various indiscriminating documents were recovered from her possession. Purnima Baishya and Nirupama Baishya, the aunt and mother of Rumi respectively, were also arrested for further investigation.

    The SFs arrested two ULFA linkmen, identified as Himata Sarma alias Deep (19) and his brother Himanshu Sarma alias Tapan (22), from their residence at Pati Darrang under Mongoldoi Police Station in Darrang District. One 22-mm locally-made revolver and two extortion notes of the ULFA were recovered from their residence.

  • July 31: Contractors engaged in setting up a 33 KV Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) sub-station at Sriram Sapori village in Majuli of Jorhat District, fled after receiving extortion notes from the ULFA. A source said that the ASEB had commissioned the setting up of two sub-stations - a 132 KV at Garmur and the other 33 KV one at Sriram Sapori under the Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutkaran Yojana scheme of the Government of India. The two sub-stations would benefit about 7,000 families living in 200 villages in both the places. However, work at the 33 KV sub-station is incomplete following a threat to contractors by the ULFA. The source said that the contractors fled for fear of their lives after receiving extortion notes signed by M. Deka Phukan and Bijoy Das belonging to the '28th Battalion' of the ULFA.

  • July 30: Police arrested a ULFA linkman, Dilip Gogoi, from Mohura Ali area in the Golaghat District. Police sources said Gogoi, along with one Jayanta Baruah, was distributing extortion notices to businessmen in Golaghat town in the name of the ULFA. The whereabouts of Jayant is not known, the report added.

    Jitul Rajkhowa, president of the Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad of Golaghat District sammittee (committee), was arrested for demanding INR 400000 in the name of the ULFA. He had reportedly threatened one Mohammad Nurul Sultan, an official of the District Rural Development Authority Department.

    The ULFA alleged that the killing of senior journalist Parag Das was a 'pre-planned conspiracy' by the Government which was evident in the acquittal of the prime accused on July 28. The ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa said in a statement that the acquittal of Mridul Phukan, the prime suspect, "was a preplanned conspiracy" to kill the noted journalist 13 years ago.

  • July 29: The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced that the Government would take care of the treatment of ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah if he surrenders, reports Assam Tribune. Talking to media persons in Guwahati, Gogoi said the Government does not have conformed news of the sickness of the ULFA leader. "We have seen media reports in this regard, but we are not in a position to confirm or deny the reports." Gogoi also said the BW outfit has expressed its desire to come forward for talks but the Government would take a final decision in this regard in consultation with the Union Government. The Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai is scheduled to arrive in Assam on July 30 and the issue will be discussed, he added.

    A ULFA militant, identified as Bastav Bora alias Rupjyoti Gogoi, was arrested by the SFs from a restaurant near the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh District. A hand grenade, three kilograms of TNT and other explosives materials were recovered from his possession.

  • July 26: The Army personnel recovered a cache of explosives from an adjacent location of the Upper Dehing Reserve Forest under Digboi Police Station in Tinsukia District. Sources said the explosives were stored by the ULFA to trigger blasts ahead of the outfit's 'martyrs' day' on July 28 or on the nation's Independence Day (August 15).

    Two ULFA linkmen, Sadhuram Koch and Jayanta Hasong, were arrested from Majari village in Dhubri District along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

  • July 25: The SFs arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Upen Sarma, from Punia village under Mangaldai Police Station in Darrang District.

  • July 24: A ULFA militant was shot dead while two others managed to escape during an encounter with SFs in the Bairagi area under Pathacharkuchi Police Station of Barpeta District in the morning. One US-made pistol and seven bullets were recovered from the slain militant's possession.

    Quoting an official source in the Home Department of Assam, Telegraph said an alert was announced about the plans of a 300-member group of youths to sneak into the State for carrying out subversive activities after being trained by Maoist rebels in Jharkhand over the past three years. An official in the Home Department said these youths, most of them members of an organisation ostensibly espousing the cause of farmers and also believed to be a frontal organisation of ULFA, had left Assam during 2006-2007. "Most of these youths are from areas where the organisation was active till a few months back. Now it is trying to form District-level committees throughout the state. Most of these youths are from Golaghat and Nagaon Districts. We have names of some of them who had disappeared since 2006. Some of these youths may have even been taking shelter in the Lalgarh area of West Bengal, which was till a few days back a stronghold of Maoist rebels," the official said. He said there were reports of the ULFA striking a deal with the Maoists and that these trained youths had been assigned to carry out subversive activities in the State. "ULFA has been trying since long to work together with the Maoist rebels operating in India, who have links with China," the official added. Sources said the organisation had strong bases in the Doyang and Tengani areas of Golaghat District and Kaki in Nagaon District. "We also have information that arms for these youths may have already arrived in the state. We are keeping a close watch on these areas," he added further.

  • July 23: An unidentified ULFA militant was arrested following an encounter with the Security Forces in Nagaon District.

  • July 21: The Union Government confirmed reports that self-styled 'commander-in-chief' of ULFA, Paresh Baruah, may have moved out of Bangladesh for some time. The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mullapally Ramachandran, was replying to a question in Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) on reports of Baruah moving to China. However, details in this regard are not available, the Minister added. The Minister also confirmed that a fresh list of prominent militant leaders and criminals based in Bangladesh including those against whom Red Corner Notice have been issued has been handed over to Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) during the recent Director General level Border Coordination Conference at Dhaka from July 11-14.

    Police arrested one Achyut Deka from Ghograpar area of Nalbari District at around 11 pm (IST) in the night, who was trying to extort money from people in the disguise of ULFA. Sources said that Deka had served an extortion note of INR 500000 to Dr Pranabjyoti Deka, a local physician. The doctor while informing the Police asked Achyut to collect the money. The Police laid a trap and arrested Achyut while his accomplice Montu Ali managed to flee. The Police also recovered a motorbike on which they had come. Achyut hails from Karbaitola village under Nalbari Police Station.

    The ULFA militants shot dead a surrendered cadre, Hazong Rabha, and his wife Nalani Rabha, at their Nalanga Pahartoli residence under Baguwan Police Station in Goalpara District. Assam Police sources said the SULFA cadre, who surrendered and joined the mainstream in 2005, had been leading a normal life after marrying Nalani in 2006. He was engaged in coal trade since laying down arms. Suspected ULFA militants had also killed Hazong Rabha's uncle and his wife in the night of July 6 at their residence nearly 500 metres away from their hilltop house. Baguwan Police, however, denied that the incident had any link with militant groups.

    Quoting intelligence sources, Sentinel has reported that the ULFA planned to use women cadres for subversive activities during the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations on August 15. According to sources, a group of women cadres has entered Jorhat District from the border areas of Golaghat to carry out subversion. The Police in five upper Assam Districts have already intensified security measures on receiving this information.

  • July 20: The CBI arrested an ULFA cadre of the pro-talks faction, Bhaskar Rajbonshi, from the Nalbari designated camp in connection with abduction and killing case of Food Corporation of India Executive Director P.C. Ram.

    SFs seized a detailed sketch of Dibrugarh Airport along with a large quantity of explosives from a ULFA hideout in a dense jungle at Seesabil under Tingkhong Police Station in the Dibrugarh District. Some other sketches, which appeared to be of bridges and oil and gas pipelines, were also found at the hideout. The recoveries include around three kilogram of TNT, one and half kilogram of RDX, five gelatin sticks, a hand grenade, a handmade pistol, 55 rounds of AK-series ammunition, three rounds of .303 rifle ammunition, extortion notes, camouflage uniforms and medicines. "ULFA could be planning something big ahead of its martyrs' day on July 28 and Independence Day on August 15," a senior Police Official said. "We have asked Oil India Limited, Assam Gas Company Limited and Brahmaputra Valley Fertiliser Corporation Limited to be extra cautious after today's haul," he added.

  • July 19: Police arrested Indrajeet Bania, a top ranking militant of the 27th battalion of the ULFA, from his rented house in the Gandhibasti area in Guwahati. Police also recovered an IED from the house. According to Assam Police, he was planning to trigger a high-intensity blast in Guwahati in the next few days. Meanwhile, the Police sounded an alert on July 18 that the ULFA was planning to trigger a blast in Guwahati with the help of a student.

  • July 14: The BSF personnel arrested a suspected ULFA linkman, identified as Pradeep Sangma of Sherpur District of Bangladesh, along the India-Bangladesh border in the West Garo Hills District in the State of Meghalaya.

  • July 12: The Army troopers and Police arrested a ULFA militant, identified as S. S. Bhola Gogoi, at Shimalguri under Bihpuria Police Station in the Lakhimpur District. One German .38 revolver with two live rounds, one Nokia mobile phone and incriminating documents were recovered from his possession. During interrogation, Bhola Gogoi confessed that he worked as an active cadre of the 28th Battalion of the ULFA and is the son of one Uttam Gogoi, a resident of Saraimoria in the North Lakhimpur District.

  • July 10: Two ULFA militants were shot dead in an encounter with SFs at Nasatra village in Barpeta District. The Gaonburah (village headmen) of the village along with his wife and daughter were arrested for sheltering militants in his home. One of the slain militants was identified as Pingal Deka. Meanwhile, Shillong Times reports that the other militant was identified as Tinku Deka.

  • July 9: A high ranking ‘second lieutenant’ and ‘commander’ of ‘27th Battalion’ of the ULFA , Manik Saikia (38), a resident of Sootea Sapekhati Gaon under Sootea Police Station in Sonitpur District, surrendered in front of the Superintendent of Police of Sonitpur District. He deposited a 9-mm pistol and some bullets at the time of his surrender. He also confessed that he had joined the ULFA in 1990.

    The Guwahati city Police arrested a ULFA extortionist, Raju Koch, at Ganeshguri area of Guwahati when he came to collect extortion money from a business firm. Police said Koch had served an extortion note on an ULFA letterhead to the firm demanding INR 500000. Koch belongs to Nazira in the Sivasagar District.

  • July 8: Shillong Times reports that the ULFA has regrouped its 28th battalion in a base in Myanmar close to the border to step up its activities in the eastern Assam's industrial and tea belt. Security sources said the outfit had appointed Bijoy Chinese as the 'operation commander' of the revamped ‘28th battalion’, which had been virtually rendered defunct after its ‘A’ and ‘C’ companies entered into a truce with the Government in June 2008 and its cadres taken shelter in designated camps. Some of the senior leaders of the outfit have reportedly taken shelter in Mon District of Nagaland to carry out specific strikes in eastern Assam areas before Independence Day.

    Central intelligence agencies have cautioned about a "rejuvenated" ULFA carrying out a massive fund collection drive from the business establishments located along Assam’s boundary with Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. According to an intelligence report from upper Assam, several businessmen paying extortion money to the ULFA were doings so in installments. Sources in the agency said the sum in the demand notes served to the traders varied between INR 200000 and INR 2000000. A senior officer of Golaghat Police confirmed that the ULFA had been trying to extort businessmen in the border areas. Such notices have been served in the Merapani and Chungajan areas along the Assam-Nagaland border, he said. "We have not received any official complaint till now though we have information about a few businessmen receiving such extortion notes. A few have allegedly paid to the ULFA coffers also." Most of these businessmen, the officer said, are Hindi-speaking persons. Meanwhile, a statement issued by ULFA’s ‘finance secretary’, ‘lieutenant colonel’ Chitraban Hazarika, on July 8 said "donation notes" purportedly signed by him and distributed among the businessmen, especially in Nagaon district, were fake. "Such notices are fake as I have not signed any donation note since 2002," the statement added.

  • July 7: A ULFA militant, identified as Jitu Medhi, was shot dead in an encounter with the Police at Amsoi along the border of Nagaon and Karbi Anglong District.

  • July 6: A self styled "sergeant" of the ULFA, identified as Deepshikha Baruah alias Bohagi Baruah (35), a resident of Himpora village under Moranhat Police Station in Sivasagar District, was arrested by the SFs on from Rongapathar village under Sonari Police Station. A revolver and an IED were recovered from Baruah who belongs to the Bravo Company of ULFA’s 28th battalion. The Sivasagar District Superintendent of Police, Shyamal Prasad Saikia, said that Baruah confessed that "the outfit has plans to hit certain specific targets in the run-up to Independence Day to once again prove its existence." A senior Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel S. Banerjee, who was leading the Army troops, was injured in his leg when Baruah fired at him from a revolver. Two senior leaders of the pro-talks faction of the ULFA, Prabal Neog and Jiten Dutta, had cautioned on July 1 that the ULFA planned to strike before Independence Day, saying they had learnt about it from "their own channels". Neog had even said the ULFA might try to kill important functionaries of the pro-peace camps.

    One ULFA linkman, Parth Pratim Saikia, was arrested by Police from Chowkidingee area of Dibrugarh District.

  • July 1: The pro-talks faction of the ULFA sounded an alert and beefed up security at its camps in the upper Assam region following reports through its "own channels" that the outfit was attempting to carry out strikes in the area, including on its members. The pro-talks faction also cautioned the State Government about ULFA's plan to carry out the attacks in August 2009. Prabal Neog, a leader of the pro-talks faction, told Telegraph, "Many cadres (of ULFA) have already entered Tinsukia District from the Myanmar camps via Arunachal Pradesh and have started distributing extortion notices. We have information about ULFA trying desperately to carry out strikes. If not on Security Forces, it may be Hindi-speaking settlements and us. We have tightened security in our camps." Jiten Dutta, another pro-talks leader, said most of the ULFA militants who had entered Tinsukia recently were recruited by him just a few months before they declared a cease-fire in June 2008. "They are fully trained now and have been sent by the leadership to carry out strikes," he added.

  • June 28: Army personnel arrested one ULFA militant, identified as 28-year old Dipen Bailung alias Malikto Bailung, from Dikhoumukh area in Sivasagar District. During interrogation, he confessed to being involved in regrouping activities and extortion in Sivasagar District under the command of ULFA's 'sergeant' Nomal Gogoi, who has reportedly been operating in the Assam-Nagaland border region.

  • June 27: Police arrested a ULFA linkman, identified as Gautom Hajong (38), from Aidoba village under Mankachar Police Station in the Dhubri District.

  • June 25: Quoting highly placed security sources, Assam Tribune reported that the ULFA, anti-talks faction of the NDFB and the BW outfits have joined hands as they were under pressure from the on going operation against them by Security Forces. Sources said that at present ULFA cadres led by Hira Sarania are reportedly moving around in the areas bordering Bhutan in the Chirang and Baska Districts and they may try to trigger explosions with the help of the anti-talks faction of the NDFB. Sources also said the Black Widow group has established ties with the anti-talks faction of the NDFB. There have also been reports that a few Black Widow militants have managed to go to Bangladesh along with cadres of the anti-talks faction of the NDFB.

    One ULFA militant was shot dead in an encounter with the SFs near Sukurbaria Bazaar under Rani Police outpost in Kamrup District. The Additional Superintendent of Police of Kamrup District, S. Deka, said the slain militant, who appeared to be in his early twenties, could not be identified. One pistol, a grenade and incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

  • June 24: An ULFA militant, identified as Jibesh Chakraborty alias Kaku, was arrested in a joint operation launched by the Boitamari Police and CRPF from Salbari village under Boitamari Police out post in Bongaigaon District. Police sources said Jibesh entered Bongaigaon after completing 12-day training in Kuklung forest.

    SFs recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Namdang reserve forest under Khowang Police Station in Dibrugarh District. Around 3000 rounds of various types of ammunition, five hand grenades, one AK 56 rifle with three magazines, one revolver and 30 detonators were recovered. All the arms and ammunition were sealed in two large bags. Colonel D K Singh of the Indian Army said that intelligence inputs and interrogation of surrendered and arrested cadres had indicated that the reserve forests in Dibrugarh District were being used by the ULFA and other terrorist groups for transit and for hiding caches of arms and ammunition.

  • June 23: One ULFA militant was shot dead in an encounter with a joint team of the Police and CRPF at Sagarkuchi village in Khatikuchi area under Ghograpar Police Station in Nalbari District. According to sources, the SFs arrested two militants while travelling on a numberless bike. In the encounter, one militant was injured while the other managed to escape. The wounded militant later succumbed to his injuries.

    The pro-talks faction of the ULFA celebrated the anniversary of a unilateral cease-fire and initiation of peace process, reports Sentinel. The 'Alpha and Charlie' companies of the '28th battalion' of ULFA had declared a unilateral truce on June 24, 2008. The pro-talks ULFA cadres living in the designated camps at Kakopathar, Tinsukia, Moran and Nalbari have been demanding full autonomy. However, Mrinal Hazarika and Jiten Dutta, leaders of these two companies, have expressed apprehension that with little development in the peace process, there was a high possibility of new recruits joining the ULFA.

  • June 22: Personnel of the 65th Field Regiment of Red Horns Division arrested one Binoy Borah, a cadre of the 27th Battalion of ULFA, from Adhikarigaon village under Mangaldai Police Station in Darrang District. One 7.65 mm magazine, five live rounds and one mobile phone was recovered from his possession.

    The ULFA called a 12-hour Assam bandh (general shutdown) from 5 am (IST) of June 25 for the alleged killing of cadres of ULFA, NDFB and BW outfit in custody of the SFs. In a press release issued on June 22, the ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa alleged that recently two members of the 28th battalion of the ULFA - Debojit Chetia and Durlav Bora - were killed in Nagaon in a "fake encounter". He said that both the ULFA members were arrested on June 10 near Karbi Anglong and were later shot dead. The ULFA chairman also alleged that in June 2009 17 NDFB cadres were killed and most of them were killed while they were in the custody of the SFs. He further alleged that BW cadre Frankie Dimasa was also killed after he was picked up by the troops. Rajkhowa said that instead of trying to find political solution to the problems, the Government has been trying to deal with the situation with force.

  • June 21: Two ULFA militants were shot dead during a joint operation by the Army and Police near the Dijuvalley tea estate in Nagaon District. One of the slain militants was identified as Subhankar Bora alias Debojit Saikia, a cadre of the '28th battalion' of the ULFA, while the other is yet to be identified. One AK 56 rifle, one 9-mm revolver and ammunition and fired cases were recovered from the possession of the slain militants.

  • June 19: An unidentified ULFA militant was shot dead in an encounter with Police and CRPF personnel at Kacharitol village under Kalaigaon Police Station in Udalguri District. One Chinese pistol along with several rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • June 18: An unidentified ULFA militant was shot dead by a joint team of the Army and Police at Dababil under Sidli Police Station in Chirang District.

    The United Pro-talks Organization (UPO), comprising the ULFA, DHD, ACF and the BCF, demanded regional autonomy in the Northeast so that lasting solutions to the problems of the region could be solved.

  • June 17: Telegraph quoting eyewitnesses sources reports that three suspected ULFA militants who came on two bicycles shot dead a surrendered SULFA cadre, Khiren Chandra Nath (36), inside a saloon at Salkosa in Dhubri District. Another surrendered ULFA cadre, Bishnu Barman, and a barber, Dulal Sil Sarma, were injured. The people of the area later obstructed the National Highway and gheraoed the Police Station in protest against the killing.

  • June 15: The Police and Army personnel shot dead an ULFA militant, identified as Biman Gogoi, and arrested a linkman, Hemchandra Gogoi, from Telikhola Majgaon area of Sadiya in Tinsukia District. Later, the Army recovered two AK-56 rifles, three magazines of AK series, one magazine of M-20 pistol and 128 live ammunitions of AK series from Udaypur area under Chapakhowa Police Station, based on the confession of the arrested linkman.

  • June 14: Two suspected militants of the ULFA managed to escape after local residents pelted stones at them when they tried to threaten a businessman at gunpoint on the Chamber Road under Fancy Bazaar Police Station of Guwahati city. Police, however, managed to recover a .38 and a 9-mm pistol which the militants left behind after being chased by the public.

  • June 11: Two ULFA militants, identified as Megha Hajong and Arun Rabha, were killed by a joint team of the Meghalaya Police and Army at Bangalpara village in West Garo Hills District. An AK-47 rifle, two Chinese grenades, three AK-rifle magazines with ammunition and some explosives were recovered from their possession. Hajong was the ‘area commander’ of the ULFA for the entire Garo Hills. Police said Hajong was involved in smuggling of arms and ammunition from Bangladesh through the Garo Hills border to Assam.

  • June 10: Telegraph reports that the ULFA has started a new strategy of recruiting the youth of tea tribe community in upper Assam. The outfit’s new strategy came to light following the arrest of an ULFA linkman, Devdas Tanti, from Thowra tea estate in Sivasagar District. Tanti, a tea garden labourer, confessed that he had been asked by the ULFA to lure tea garden youths to join the outfit

  • June 8: The personnel of 11th Maratha Regiment arrested one Prasenjit Barman (19) of Goladangi and his accomplice Manik Barman (21) for their reported links with the ULFA.

  • June 5: A huge cache of arms belonging to the ULFA was recovered by Security Forces from Tinsukia District.

  • June 3: Three militants, including a senior ULFA militant identified as Madhurjya Gogoi, were killed in an encounter with the Army at Chayabhata village in Karbi Anglong District around 1.30pm (IST). Gogoi was a self-styled 'lieutenant' of the banned outfit. Of the other two militants, one was Gogoi's bodyguard while another was a KLNLF cadre. An AK-series rifle, two 9mm pistols, a Chinese grenade, ammunition and cash-receipt book were recovered from the encounter site.

    A ULFA militant, Karuna Mili alias Madhab Mili, was arrested from Matmara area under Dhakuakhana Police Station in Lakhimpur District. A 9-mm factory made pistol, one magazine and three rounds of live ammunition were recovered from his possession.

  • June 2: A cadre belonging to the '709 battalion' of the ULFA, identified as Nripen Das, was arrested by the Police from Hajo in Kamrup District.

  • June 1: Police arrested one Ranjit Dutta alias Jan of Sasoni Tokobill area on the charge of extortion from Tipling under Duliajan Police Station in Dibrugarh District. Police sources said Dutta was arrested when he went to collect the extortion money. A few note pads of the ULFA and some incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

  • May 31: The ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah, who has been hiding in Bangladesh for many years now, is reported to be in China for about a month now, intelligence agencies have indicated. Government sources told that Indian intelligence agencies have been able to intercept Baruah's mobile phone and satellite phone conversations from China and are also aware of his precise location in that country. Though there is no clarity on the reason for his visit, sources said Baruah might have travelled to China in the hope of procuring some arms. His China visit comes at a time when the Awami League Government under Sheikh Hasina has initiated a crackdown on the ULFA and other Indian insurgent groups who have taken shelter in that country.

  • May 30: Police arrested two ULFA militants, identified as Pramod Kalita and Satish Rajbongshi, and one PLA cadre, Birchandra Singh, from the Baihata Chariali area of Kamrup District. 50 kilograms of RDX, five kilograms of ammonium nitrate and some detonators were recovered from their possession. Police claimed that on the eve of ULFA's protest day, the militants were on an extortion drive in Kamrup, including Guwahati city. They arrived at Baihata Chariali to meet one bomb-expert, the report added.

  • May 29: Police arrested three unidentified ULFA militants at Baihata Chariali area of Rangiya in Kamrup District. Five kilograms of RDX (Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) were recovered from their possession.

  • May 28: Two army personnel and two suspected ULFA militants were injured in an encounter at Naamtemera Noigaon under Dergaon Police Station in Golaghat District.

    Sentinel has reported that the '28th Battalion' of the ULFA served extortion notices to several businessmen in upper Assam and set a target of collecting INR 10 million from the region. Sources said that taking advantage of the agreement between the Government and the pro-talks faction of the ULFA, a group of militants were serving extortion notes in the name of the ULFA's '709 Battalion' to a number of businessmen in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia Districts. According to sources in the ULFA, a meeting was convened at the headquarters of the '28th Battalion' in Myanmar three days back to discuss the financial crisis and ways to cope with it. The meeting unanimously resolved to collect INR 10 million from upper Assam and instructed its cadres to serve the extortion notes.

  • May 25: Two persons, including one surrendered United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadre Bipul Saraniya (25), were shot dead by an unidentified militant at Saukuchi under Barama Police Station in Baksa. Police sources said when the SULFA man was taking a meal along with Amar Das (15) at their relative's home, an unidentified militant shot at them with a 9-mm pistol from zero distance.

  • May 19: The Guwahati Police arrested two youths, identified as Dhanjit Kalita and K. Sinha, from the Chandmari Police Station area for allegedly planning to serve extortion notes in the name of the banned ULFA.

  • May 15: The troops arrested one self-styled 'Sergeant Major' of the ULFA, Achyut Sarma alias Deepak Deka alias Noor, from Hazarikapara village under Sipajhar Police Station in Darrang District.

  • May 14: Dispur city Police arrested two private security guards of a residential apartment in Chandmari area of Guwahati city for extorting money for ULFA. Police said the accused were identified as Amitabh Boro (27) from Sipajhar in Darrang District and Dibakar Rajbongshi (32) from Rangia in Kamrup District. The Police said the accused had made extortion calls to some persons in the name of Hira Sarania, the 'commander'' of the '709 battalion' of ULFA.

  • May 12: Dibrugarh District Police arrested a suspected ULFA linkman, Pankaj Baruah, from Mirihola village under Moran Police Station on charges of extortion. According to Police sources, Bapu Jewelers had received an extortion demand of INR 500000, reportedly from Dennis Sonowal, a member of the 'Bravo Company' of ULFA. The matter was reported to the Police and a trap was laid and Pankaj Barua who had arrived at the spot to collect the demanded amount was caught.

    Police shot dead an unidentified ULFA militant in an encounter at Solmari under Baihata Chariali Police Station in the Kamrup District. While Police recovered one 9-mm pistol from the possession of the slain militant, two other militants managed to escape. Police sources said a group of three ULFA militants were taking shelter in the area with a view to collect funds for their outfit.

  • May 10: Police arrested an advocate, Gobinda Nath, from his residence at Gopal Bazaar in Nalbari town, based on the confession of a ULFA cadre, Manoj Sharma. Sharma, who is a cadre of the '709 battalion' of the ULFA, was arrested earlier. Police sources said Sharma, who hails from Baihata in Kamrup District, had gone to Nalbari to collect cash from the advocate.

  • May 8: Police arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Arup Deka (20), from Ganeshpara area of Guwahati in Kamrup District. The Police said Deka, who hails from Musalpur in Baksa District, is a cadre belonging to '709 battalion' of the ULFA, and suspected to be involved in several subversive activities including the blast at Jyotikuchi.

    Two ULFA militants, who were shot dead in an encounter at Beganabari in Sivasagar District, were identified as Jitu Changmai and Linton Ingti. Jitu hails from Sivasagar District while Linton is from Tinsukia District.

  • May 7: Two unidentified ULFA militants were shot dead by Police during an encounter at Beganabari in Sivasagar District. Police recovered a universal machine gun, one AK-56 rifle and several rounds of live ammunition from the encounter site.

  • May 3: An unidentified ULFA militant was killed while another was wounded in an encounter with a joint team of the Police, Central Reserve Police Force and Army at Biyakorowa village under Merapani Police station in the Golaghat District.

  • April 29: A camp of the ULFA was neutralised and a cache of arms and ammunition recovered by the Army at Salna in Nagaon District.

  • April 28: Two ULFA militants were shot dead in an encounter with the SF personnel at Sripurdeor Haribangha under Mushalpur Police station in Baksa District.

  • April 27: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead a pro-talks cadre, Hitesh Rabha (28), at Khaldang village under Krishnai Police station in Goalpara District. Police sources said a group of four ULFA cadres shot Rabha from close range when he came out of his house after dinner. Rabha was with ULFA's 709th battalion before he came over ground. This is the second major attack by suspected ULFA militants on the pro-talks group within a month. Earlier, on March 25, they had killed Robin Gogoi, who was instrumental in roping in leaders of the A and C companies of ULFA's 28th battalion for talks. Pro-talks leader Maradona Russell alias Naren Rai, who is in charge of the group's Nalbari designated camp, held ULFA "commander-in-chief" Paresh Barua and "chairman" Arabinda Rajkhowa" responsible for the killing. He warned that his group would not remain a silent spectator to the killing of its members.

    SFs arrested two ULFA militants from Dekargaon area under Serfunguri Police station in Kokrajhar District.

  • April 24: The ULFA has started extorting money from traders in Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh Police said that two cadres of ULFA's 28 battalion, Ghanakanta Saikia and Deepak Bhuyan, were arrested from Bihpuria in Assam's Lakhimpur District on, for serving an extortion notice for INR one million to a trader at Banderdewa in Arunachal Pradesh last week and intimidating him. They were remanded to Police custody for 14 days by a local magistrate on April 25.

  • April 22: A joint team of the Police and the Army arrested Subil Borgohain, a 'sergeant major' belonging to the 'B' Company of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), from Mahmora Ali near Namrup Police station in Dibrugarh District. One AK-56 rifle, 44 rounds of live ammunition and some incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

  • April 21: Police arrested three ULFA linkmen for their alleged involvement in the bomb blast at Jyotikuchi in the Maligaon area of Guwahati city in Kamrup District. Police sources said the trio, identified as Kandarpa Das, Sanjay Thakuria and Gautam Thakuria were arrested from Musalpur in the Baksa District.

  • April 18: In a joint operation, Assam Rifles troopers along with the Udalguri and Orang Police arrested four ULFA linkmen from two different areas of Udalguri District. Phuleswar Nath and Dulal Nath were arrested from Goraimari village while Pranab Nath and Satyajeet Nath were arrested from Bagalibari village under Majbat Police Station.

  • April 11: Police recovered two IEDs, one concealed inside a football weighing around 10 kilograms and the other inside a steel container weighing around three kilograms, from the house of one Babul Das under Basistha Police Station of Guwahati. Police sources said Babul Das had been arrested once earlier for suspected links with the banned ULFA.

  • April 10: The Mankachar Police arrested five more persons in connection with the grenade blast at Mankachar Police Station on April 6. Four of the arrested persons who were suspected to have maintained links with the ULFA were identified as Kamini Koch, Mithun Koch, Kamal Koch and Mokmol Koch. All of them hail from Gopalpur village under Mankachar Police Station in Dhubri District.

  • April 9: Two women cadres of ULFA, identified as Debalata Handique and Jonali Deka, were arrested from an unspecified area of Guwahati in the Kamrup District and remanded to three days Police custody for their role the March 25 grenade attack in front of the civil hospital in Tezpur.

    Another ULFA militant, identified as Jadav Bora, was arrested by the Security Force personnel from Amlaki Pait Gaon under Jonai Police Station in the Dhemaji District.

  • April 8: SFs shot dead one unidentified ULFA militant at Bhuyakhati near Dalgaon in the Darrang District. Some arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

    Police arrested two persons, identified as Pulin Bora and Lakhiprasad Nath, from Dhekiajuli in the Sonitpur District in connection with the April 6 bomb blast. Police sources said both are surrendered ULFA cadres.

  • April 7: Police and Army in a joint operation arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Parimal Barman, and six of its linkmen from Paglaghat under Tamarhat Police Station area of Dhubri District in connection with the April 6 grenade attack on a Police Station at Mankachar in the same District.

  • April 6: Ten persons were killed and about 59 others injured in four explosions carried out by suspected ULFA militants. The militants carried out three blasts and mounted a grenade attack within five hours. The Director General of Police, G.M. Srivastava, said seven people were killed and 56 injured in a powerful blast in a crowded market in Guwahati’s Maligaon area at around 2 pm (IST). The explosion sparked a fire that set ablaze two cars and 20 motorcycles and spread to a three-storey building housing the area police station. While six people were killed at the blast site, one died of injuries after jumping from an adjacent building which had caught fire. The bomb is suspected to have been hidden in a car or a motorcycle parked adjacent to the North-East Frontier Railway headquarters. "This is the handiwork of ULFA boys ahead of the outfit’s Raising Day" Srivastava said, adding the militants used hi-tech explosives. A bomb was set off by unidentified militants in the Santipur area near Bokajan in Karbi Anglong District earlier in the day. Suspected ULFA militants also set off a bicycle bomb explosion at Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur District later. Four people were injured, one of them seriously, in this incident. According to an unconfirmed report, he later died of his injuries. In addition, an unidentified militant lobbed a hand grenade at Mankachar Police station in Dhubri district, killing a Police driver and injuring another.

  • April 5: Assam Tribune reports that Police released photos of two ULFA militants who had entered Guwahati city to carry out subversive activities ahead of the outfit’s raising day on April 7. The two militants were identified as Manohar Rajbangshi alias Son and Pradip Kalita alias Deep. Manohar hails from Musalpur in Baksa District, while Pradip is from Nagaon District, the Additional Superintendent of Guwahati City Police, Devajit Deuri, said. They belong to the ‘709th and 27th battalion’ of ULFA respectively.

  • April 3: Police arrested two ULFA militants, identified as Rakesh Thakuria (22) and Kamal Nayan Talukdar alias Baba (27), from Basistha and Noonmati areas of Guwahati city respectively. They were involved in the March 31 bomb blast at Jyotikuchi area in Guwahati city. The Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Debojit Deori, said the duo was also wanted in connection with several other cases. "They were arrested based on the account of the eyewitnesses of the Jyotikuchi blast," he said.

  • March 31: 53 militants, including 44 from the ULFA, surrendered before the Army at Dinjan Army station in the Tinsukia District. Besides the 44 ULFA militants, including four women cadres, there were three NSCN militants and six members of the AANLA. The militants deposited a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including 44 pistols, five guns, one machine gun and huge quantities of assorted ammunition.

    One person died while at least nine others sustained injuries when an IED exploded in the Jyotikuchi area under Gorchuk Police Station of Guwahati city in the Kamrup District. The blast occurred two kilometers away from Lalmati area, where the Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee was supposed to address a public gathering as a part of ruling Congress party’s election campaign. Senior Superintendent of Police P. C. Saloi said, "From the prima facie evidence, it appears to be the handiwork of the banned ULFA".

  • March 30: Quoting Assam Police sources, Assam Tribune has reported that a group of Islamist militants had entered upper Assam with the help of local militants to disrupt the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in April 2009. The Superintendent of Police of Dibrugarh, Abhijeet Bora, said Islamist militants have entered upper Assam through Myanmar and neighbouring Nagaland’s Mon District. ‘Bravo’ company of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had possibly helped these militants enter the area as the ‘Alpha’ and ‘Charlie’ units of the outfit were on a cease-fire with the Government, he added.

  • March 29: SFs arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Sankar Rajbongshi (30), from Anandapur village in the Baksa District.

    The Morigaon Police arrested two woman ULFA militants, identified as Jonali Deka and Devalata Handique, from Jorabat area near Guwahati of Kamrup District.

  • March 25: The pro-talks ULFA leader, Robin Gogoi, and Luit Boishya, a cloth merchant, were shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Kristhi Sangh playground in the Tinsukia District. According to the Police, Boishya, who is from Nalbari, died on the spot while Gogoi succumbed to injuries on the way to a hospital in Tinsukhia.

    One ULFA linkman, identified as Ria Marak, was arrested by the troops from Bishandagiri area under Garobada Police Station in the West Garo Hills District.

  • March 18: One Police constable, Nirmal Deka (38), and a ULFA militant were killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides at Kalitapara under the Sipajhar Police Station in the Darrang District. Police recovered one 9-mm pistol, two grenades, four mobile phones, four batteries, 13 rounds of live ammunition and three books from the possession of the slain militant. Telegraph had earlier reported that the Constable was injured in the incident.

  • March 17: A Police constable, Nirmal Deka, was injured while an ULFA militant, Ganesh Sarma, was killed in an encounter at Kurua village under Sipajhar Police Station in the Darrang District.

    Unidentified militants shot dead a surrendered ULFA cadre, Nayanjyoti Roy, at the main market area of Kokrajhar District.

  • March 15: Police arrested three militants of the '27th Battalion' of the ULFA from Baihata Chariali Police Station area in the Kamrup District. They were identified as Badal Saikia, Ganesh Goswami and Pradeep Kalita.

  • March 13: The Police arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Utpal Barman, from Noonmati area of Guwahati in the Kamrup District.

  • March 12: Army personnel arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Bisaru Teli (40), at Mahmora Arabari under Mahmora Police Station in the Dibrugarh District. 11 rounds of .303 live ammunition were recovered from the house of the arrested militant.

  • March 10: Militant outfits like the ULFA and KLO were reportedly on an extortion drive in different villages of Dhubri District. These outfits were demanding INR 50, 000 to INR 500, 000 from middle class business men and servicemen residing in various villages under Golokganj Police Station in Dhubri District bordering Bangladesh and West Bengal. According to sources, using the KLO letterhead and signing with its self styled 'commander' as S. Barman, a huge number of demand notes was served to many businessmen and servicemen residing in the village of Kanur Bish Khowa, Ratiadaha, Lakhimari and Rakhapat under Golokganj Police Station. In addition, one Raju Borua, mentioning himself as 'deputy chief' of the ULFA and using a cell phone bearing Bangladeshi No.- 008801190856310, demanded money from some businessmen residing at villages in the Dhubri District along the Assam-West Bengal border. The report adds that one Ankur Bora, identifying himself as a ULFA leader, has also demanded money from some businessmen communicating through a cell phone.

  • March 9: One ULFA militant, identified as Tarun Thengal, surrendered before the Police in the headquarters of Jorhat District.

  • March 8: A joint team of Army and Police shot dead one ULFA militant, identified as ‘sergeant major’ Lolit Bora alias Ajit Gogoi alias Ajala Kokai, near Balijan Grant area in the Sivasagar District. A US-made revolver with three bullets, a grenade, a mobile handset, and a notepad were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • March 6: A ULFA cadre, identified as Hiramal Sarkar alias Anupam Gogoi, was shot dead by troops during an encounter at Launriguri under Bijni Police Station in the Chirang District.

  • March 2: Assam Police arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Navajit Das alias Himanshu Roy, from Garchuk area of Guwahati City. A member of the outfit’s central committee, he has been with the ULFA since 1995.

    Police arrested a woman ULFA cadre, identified as Lamayanti Roy alias Ajanta Rabha of Chipansila area in the Bongaigaon District.

  • February 28: 45 militants, including 32 ULFA cadres, six KLNLF cadres, five NDFB cadres and a cadre each of the MULTA and PLF-M, surrendered along with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition before Red Horns Division of Indian Army in a surrender ceremony organized at Rangiya of Kamrup District.

  • February 26: In a joint operation, the Assam Police and CRPF personnel shot dead two top militants belonging to the ‘Bravo company’ of the ULFA’s ‘28th Battalion’ at Balijan village under Jengraimukh Police Station in Jorhat District. The duo were identified as ‘operation commander’ Bhaskar Hazarika and ‘sergeant major’ Sarat Bora. Nine bags of incriminating documents relating to the ‘28th Battalion’, an AK-47 rifle, 20 detonators and fuse wires, two pistols and several grenades were recovered from the incident site. In addition, $10,000 and INR 100000 in cash was recovered from a bag.

  • February 23: A self styled ‘corporal’ of ‘28th Battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Manab Handique alias Dambaru Bora, was arrested by Police personnel at Padumoni area of Golaghat District.

  • February 22: A jute trader of Bogribari area, identified as Kartick Sen, was abducted by a combined group of suspected ULFA and KLO militants from his residence at Bogribari Bazaar area in the Dhubri District. According to Police sources, five motorcycle-borne militants called Kartik Sen out of his house and took him away after opening fire in the air. Four years back, Sen’s eldest brother Ganesh Sen had been shot dead by the ULFA.

  • February 21: Troops arrested two ULFA cadres and four linkmen during a search operation at Ronbalgiri area in the East Garo Hills District. A wireless set, 40 rounds of 9-mm ammunition and medicines were recovered from their possession.

  • February 20: The pro-talks faction of the ULFA raised a demand for "full autonomy" to Assam within the framework of Indian Constitution after detaching itself from the ULFA’s "demand for restoration of Assam’s sovereignty". The ‘president’ of the pro-talks faction, Mrinal Hazarika, and two other senior leaders, Prabal Neog and Jiten Dutta, informed that the faction had submitted an 18-point charter of demands to the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on February 19 for solution of the insurgency problem in Assam through negotiation. He further added that Gogoi had "assured them to send the memorandum to the Prime Minister for consideration by the Central Government. Those political parties who are going to highlight these demands in the coming Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Parliament) polls will receive morale support from us."

  • February 19: One suspected ULFA militant, identified as Indrajeet Roy, was arrested by the Army personnel from Koimari village under Golokganj Police Station in Dhubri District.

  • February 17: One Surrendered ULFA cadre, identified as Rajesh Das, was shot dead by suspected ULFA militants in Guromari Pathar area of Barpeta District.

  • February 8: Telegraph reports that the Unified Command Structures of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have launched a joint operation to neutralize transit camps set up by the militants in Changlang and Tirap Districts to prevent them from reaching Myanmar. The counter-insurgency operations would target militants of the ULFA and NSCN, besides militants operating from West Bengal and Sikkim, who take shelter and receive training in the Districts of Arunachal Pradesh with support from larger outfits. Apart from Changlang and Tirap, camps in Tamulpur, Darrang, Kajalgaon and Udalguri areas of Assam bordering Bhutan would also be targeted. "This (the camps) is where we want to stop them. Our main focus area will, therefore, be Changlang and Tirap, as these are their getaways. The mega crackdown should be over before the parliamentary elections," an unnamed senior official said. "The objective is to stop the militants from moving out of Bangladesh and from reaching Myanmar. The Sheikh Hasina regime has made her stand very clear vis-à-vis militant groups from India operating from Bangladeshi soil. Things will only get tough for the rebels in Bangladesh," he added.

  • February 6: One ULFA militant, identified as Trailokya Deka, was shot dead by the SFs during an encounter at Nasatra under Sarthebari Police Station in the Barpeta District.

    Two suspected ULFA linkmen, Shyamanta Senchowa and Hitesh Gogoi, were arrested by a joint team of the Army and Police from Tingkhong in the Dibrugarh District, for extorting money from the traders using letterheads of the ULFA.

  • February 5: An unidentified ULFA militant was shot dead by the SFs at Polokhata under Barama Police Station in the Baksa District. A pistol and a hand grenade were recovered from his possession.

    An encounter took place between the Police and a group of ULFA militants at Solmara village in the Nalbari District. The militants opened fire on the Police who retaliated their firing. Two militants were arrested from the encounter site and one pistol was recovered from their possession.

    The Basistha Police arrested a ULFA cadre, identified as Jintu Borah, from the Bhangagarh area of Guwahati city.

  • February 3: A five-member delegation of the pro-talks ULFA militants belonging to the ‘28th Battalion’ led by Mrinal Hazarika arrived in New Delhi to hold discussions with the Union Government. According to sources, the delegation is expected to meet a cross-section of political leaders and opinion makers to elucidate their views on a negotiated settlement of the militancy problem.

  • January 29: Two Police personnel and one ULFA militant were killed in an encounter in the Sivasagar District. According to Police sources, the encounter took place at Bengenabari area under Sonari Police station when a joint patrol party of the Police and Army was attacked by the ULFA militants. Assistant Sub-Inspector Bhim Prasad Upadhaya and Constable Debojit Borgohain were killed on the spot, while the slain ULFA militant is yet to be identified.

  • January 28: The SFs in Jorhat and Lakhimpur districts have called for commando back-up as they got ready for an operation against a group of 40 ULFA militants, holed up in one of the chaporis (sandbars) of Majuli Island. The group is led by Rajib Das, the Majuli unit commander of the outfit.

  • January 27: The pro-talks group of the ULFA, under the leadership of Jiten Dutta, accused the Indian Army of trying to derail the peace process by luring its cadres away from the designated camps to surrender. "We have definite information that some cadres, including those who had fled with weapons from our designated camps, are with the army and are likely to surrender in the days to come," said Jiten Dutta. However, rejecting the allegations, the General-Officer-Commanding (GOC) of the Dinjan-based Second Mountain Division, Major General Jatinder Singh, said: "These are all loose talk and the army never gets entangled in such issues."

  • January 25: A suspected ULFA cadre was arrested by the Police from Chabua in Dibrugarh.

    SF shot dead an unidentified militant of ‘709 battalion’ of ULFA at Dimakuchi in the Udalguri District. One 9mm pistol and an IED were recovered from his possession.

    Eight NDFB militants and two ULFA cadres surrendered before the Superintendent of Police of Golaghat District. The ULFA militants were identified as 'sergeant major' Pritam Doley alias Mickel Singh and cadre Polash Jyoti Baruah. The eight NDFB militants were identified as Ajoy Khaklari, Sanjoy Boro, Pabitra Basumatary, Nayan Basumatary, Parimal Khaklari, Arabinda Daimary, Sanjeev Khaklari and Binanda Khaklari. They laid down one .22riffle, one 9-mm pistol and one .32 pistol along with six cartridges with magazines.

    Three cadres of the 'Alpha' and 'Charlie' companies of ULFA's '28 battalion' who had managed to escape from their designated camps in the night of January 23, said oppression and ill-treatment by their leaders, specifically Jiten Dutta, forced them to desert the pro-talks group. The cadres said they had been expelled because they had opposed Dutta's "autocratic" ways.

  • January 23: One ULFA cadre, identified as Arup Nayak alias Nelo, was arrested by the SF personnel from Borpatra area under Borhat Police Station in the Sivsagar District.

    SFs arrested an ULFA cadre, Hareswar Das, from Diajiri in the Kokrajhar District. Two hand grenades were recovered from his possession. Based on his confession, Police arrested two more persons, Mohammad Sabjal Ali and Mohammad Kazia Akhan, from Kauniabhasa in the same district. A handmade pistol and six rounds of ammunition were recovered from them.

    Three ULFA cadres, Himalay Bora alias Arun Baruah, Bolin Moran alias Rinku and Tapan Gogoi alias Kanak alias Kalpa, managed to escape from their designated camps.While Arun escaped from the Moran-based camp, Rinku and Kalpa managed to escape from the Kakopathar camp.

  • January 21: The SFs arrested one 'corporal' of the ULFA, identified as Dipen Buragohain alias Bubu Gogoi, from Raghuguri village in the Sivasagar District.

  • One ULFA cadre, identified as Uday Bharali, escaped from the Sadiya designated camp of Tinsukia District with an AK-56 rifle. The SFs, in the past month, have reportedly voiced concern on the disappearance of some cadres of ULFA's 'Alpha and Charlie' companies from the designated camps.

  • January 19: Police in Dibrugarh District recovered three Universal Machine Guns, one AK 47 rifle, 10 magazines, and 200 rounds of live ammunition buried underground amid bamboo groves in the Mahmora village under Namrup Police station. The District Superintendent of Police said, "Police intelligence has information about more weapons being concealed at unknown places and so search operations will continue." He refused to elaborate whether the recovered items belonged to the ULFA.

  • A ULFA linkman, Girish Saikia, was arrested from Sonari in Sivasagar District. He was reportedly working for the outfit's 28th battalion.

  • January 18: Four ULFA cadres were killed in two separate operations by the Police and the Army at Khoya village in the Kamrup (Rural) District. In the first incident, two militants belonging to the group's 709 battalion were moving to Guwahati from Nalbari when the encounter took place. Two pistols, two Austrian grenades, three detonators, two IEDs and 500 grams of ammonium nitrate were seized from the slain militants.

  • Two militants, also belonging to the 709 battalion, were killed by Army personnel at Samukha village under Kamalpur Police station in the Baska District. The SFs seized two 9 mm US-made pistol, two electronic detonators and several extortion notes from the slain militants.

    An ULFA militant was arrested by SFs from his residence at Panitema village in the Baska district.

  • January 17: A huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including 27 AK series and Chinese rifles, belonging to the ULFA was recovered by the Police in the Tinsukia district. On a tip-off, Police from Dibrugarh District along with their counterpart from neighbouring Tinsukia District launched a joint operation at the Boholram village in the Kukurmara Sadiya area of Tinsukia District, Dibrugarh Superintendent of Police Anurag Agarwala told journalists in Dibrugarh.

  • January 14: Police arrested a militant of the ULFA, Jayanta Kalita, from Lalmati in the Basistha area of Guwahati city. He had joined the outfit around four years ago. The Police also detained Bhabani Deka, owner of Kalita's rented house at Lalmati.

  • January 13: A ULFA militant, identified as Tapan Das, was killed during an encounter with Security Forces at Geetanagar locality of Guwahati city. The slain militant was involved in the abduction and subsequent killing of FCI executive P.C. Ram in July 2007. Police said Das, belonging to the outfit's 709th battalion, was trained in sophisticated arms and bomb-making techniques and was involved in several bomb and grenade explosions in the city in the past few years.

  • 46 militants, including 42 cadres of the NDFB and four belonging to the ULFA, surrendered at Bathoupuri in the Baksa District. Of the 42 NDFB militants who laid down arms before police at Mushalpur in Baksa, 20 are from the outfit's Borbori designated camp, including a number of "corporals" and "lance corporals", mostly from NDFB's 4th battalion. The group laid down two AK-56 series rifles with two magazines and 300 rounds of ammunition, two 9mm pistols with two magazines and 17 rounds of ammunition, two Chinese pistols, two revolvers, 10 Chinese grenades, 50 kilograms of TNT and one pen pistol with six rounds of ammunition. The surrendered ULFA militants included a woman cadre from the outfit's Enigma group, identified as Namita Kalita.

  • January 12: The Assam Government stated in the Legislative Assembly that eight militant groups, including the ULFA, KLNLF, Black Widow, AANLA, KRA, HuM, MULTA and HPC-D, are active in the State. Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said that both the ULFA and NDFB are carrying out subversive activities in Assam under the influence of foreign powers and top leaders of the outfit are staying abroad. He further said that in 2008, 124 militants belonging to various outfits were killed and over 1300 were arrested. The Security Forces also recovered 203 bombs and 202 grenades from the militants.

  • January 11: In a four-page statement signed by 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua that was faxed to a section of the media, the ULFA claimed that an "infamous" "gang of six" police officers was responsible for the January 9 blast in the Maligaon locality of Guwahati city to malign the outfit's image.

  • January 10: Two ULFA cadres were shot dead by Security Force (SF) personnel in two separate encounters at Maligaon in Guwahati and Baksa.

  • Police arrested three ULFA cadres from the Chandmari and Noonmati areas of Guwahati.

  • January 5: Sonitpur Police arrested nine distributors and retailers of the Reliance Telecom Limited (RTL), who without proper verification provided SIM cards, which were used by the militants for the Guwahati serial blast on January 1. Police sources in Tezpur said that the investigation into the entire episode started after the Police got evidence of the militants, mostly ULFA cadres, using SIM cards issued in favour of fictitious names to coordinate subversive activities. Police also came to know that during the recent blasts in Guwahati the ULFA used two SIM cards issued by a retailer in Dhekiajuli.

  • Bharalumukh Police arrested six persons at Bhutnath from Rangiya in connection with the January 1 serial bomb blast. They were identified as Imran Choudhury, Sanjib Talukdar, Hemanta Phukan, Ganesh Kumar, Ravinder Singh and Tarun Kalita. Additional Superintendent of Police (city) Jayashri Khersa revealed that they had confessed their involvement in the bomb blast. While some of the arrested persons were ULFA cadres, the rest were linkmen of the outfit.

    A woman cadre of the '28th battalion' of the ULFA, identified as 'sergeant major' Mridula Kachari alias Trishna, who was trained in Myanmar, was arrested by Police and 44 Field Regiment of Army at Sonari in the Sivsagar District after a brief encounter. Another ULFA cadre, Jun Sing, managed to escape from the encounter site.

    The Home Department said the State Government had pointed out to the Union Government that several outfits, including ULFA, AANLA and Black BW, were taking refuge in the camps of NSCN-IM and NSCN-K in the neighbouring State of Nagaland. While some senior ULFA cadres were carrying out their activities from NSCN-K camps, militants belonging to the other two outfits were being hosted by the NSCN-IM in its camps. "However, given that the government is in a ceasefire with the two Naga outfits, it is Delhi's responsibility to ensure that their camps are not misused," a source said.

  • January 4: The Assam Police arrested a ULFA cadre, Sanjeev Talukdar, from Rangiya. He is suspected to have supplied the explosives which were used in the January 1 serial bomb blasts in Guwahati. Following Sanjeeb’s confession, several other militants were also arrested. He used to reportedly act as a carrier for the ULFA’s ‘709 battalion’ and handed over the explosives to the main suspect of the blasts, Pranjal Deka, near Adabari bus station, days before the explosions took place in Guwahati. Police claimed that the deal between Pranjal and Sanjeeb was being co-ordinated by Khagen Kalita, self-styled ‘Sergeant Major’ of the outfit’s ‘709 battalion’ over phone.

  • January 2: The Guwahati Police released the photograph of Pranjal Deka alias Biju Saraniya alias Bhambhal, a cadre of the ULFA’s 709th battalion, who according to security agencies, masterminded all the three blasts in Guwahati on January 1. Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Joyshree Khersa, said that Deka, who hails from Dwarkuchi village in Baksa District, is still holed up in the city along with at least five other ULFA militants. "Combing operation is on and we have intensified vigil across the State," Khersa said, adding that Deka is wanted in connection with several other recent blasts.

    The pro-talks group of the ULFA has reportedly given up the demand for sovereignty. In a press meet held at the designated camp at Kakopathar, the pro-talks group leader Mrinal Hazarika said they would now sit for talks with the Government within the framework of Indian Constitution.

  • January 1: ULFA militants triggered serial bomb blasts in three different areas of Guwahati city, killing five persons, including a minor, and injuring 50 others. The first explosion took place around 2:25 PM (IST) in Birubari followed by high-intensity explosions in the Bhootnath area (5:25PM) and Bhangagarh area (5:40PM). The blasts were triggered hours before the scheduled arrival of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram. "From prima facie evidences collected from the spot, it appears to be the handiwork of suspected ULFA militants," said Additional Superintendent of Police of Guwahati City, Debojit Deori. "The Birubari bomb, which was planted in a GMC dustbin near the Assam Association of Deaf office, was a low-intensity one. However, the subsequent blasts were aimed to cause maximum damage as they were planted in crowded areas," added Deori. Another unnamed Police official claimed that the bomb in the Bhootnath area was planted in a bicycle. Director General of Police, G.M. Srivastav, told The Hindu: "We had information that some cadres of the ULFA’s 709 battalion have entered the city to trigger blasts and we were hot on their trail. Under pressure in the form of stepped-up security, they dumped one bomb at a garbage bin in Birubari locality." He also said the ULFA wanted to demonstrate its presence ahead of Chidambaram’s visit.

2008

  • December 29: A senior ULFA militant, identified as Hasmut Ali alias Jahangir Ali, surrendered before the East Garo Hills District Police at Bajengdoba in the State of Meghalaya. He laid down an AK-81 assault rifle, a hand grenade, three magazines and 71 rounds of AK ammunition. The militant was trained at several ULFA camps in Bangladesh bordering Garo Hills, and was made a ‘lance corporal of the 109 battalion’ of the outfit. He belonged to the 2006 batch of ULFA militants. The report adds that the ULFA has time and again been using the Garo Hills area for safe passage to and fro Bangladesh.

  • December 28: The pro-talks faction of the ULFA which comprises cadres and leaders of the ‘Alfa’ and ‘Charlie’ companies of the outfit’s ‘28th battalion’ has set December 31 as the deadline for the top leaders of the outfit to take a decision to hold a dialogue with the Government of India.

  • December 27: 19 ULFA cadres surrendered and joined the pro-talks group at Kakopathar camp in the Tinsukia District. Eight of the cadres were from the outfit’s ‘28th battalion’ headquarters based in Myanmar. They laid down weapons, including rocket-propelled gun, a light machine gun and a universal machine gun. "Most of the cadres lodged at the camps in Myanmar are uncertain about their future. That is why we chose to get out of the camps and join the pro-talks group," Dipankar Dutta, one of the cadres, said. "We have been planning the escape since we came know about the peace process," another cadre, Parashmoni Rajkhowa, said.

  • December 23: Two ULFA cadres were shot dead and a woman cadre wounded in an encounter with a joint team of East Garo Hills District Police and Kumaon Regiment personnel at Gambil Apel. The slain ULFA cadres were identified as A.K. Barman Rabha and Bikash Majumdar, both hailing from Assam. The wounded woman cadre, identified as Teji Mala Rabha, was arrested after the encounter. However, eight other ULFA cadres managed to escape from the encounter site. An AK-66 rifle, five magazines, 173 rounds of ammunition, a hand grenade, a mobile phone, five demand notes and other objectionable documents were recovered from the incident site. Police later arrested two ULFA sympathisers, Lebison A. Sangma and Laban C.H. Momin, from Gambil Apel.

  • December 22: SFs reported that some cadres of the ‘A’ and ‘C’ companies of the ULFA’s ‘28th battalion’ had gone "missing" from their designated camps in upper Assam. SF sources said they were perturbed over the development accompanied by reports that these cadres may have actually returned to the outfit after remaining silent for the past six months. The ‘28th battalion’ had earlier declared a unilateral cease-fire in June 2008. According to official records, there are 133 cadres belonging to the ‘A’ and the ‘C’ company of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA lodged in the four Government-run designated camps at Sadiya, Kakopathar, Moran and Nalbari. But the source said the recent head counts revealed that a few cadres were missing from the camps. A leader of the pro-peace group, Jiten Dutta, while accepting that some amount of frustration is bound to creep in among a section of the cadres, denied that some of them have fled and re-joined the outfit. A central intelligence official based in upper Assam said, "Some other cadres, too, are planning to return to the outfit frustrated over the slow progress of the peace process." Inputs from local sources indicated that the outfit has begun a fresh recruitment in all the three upper Assam Districts of Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat. There are also some attempts to recruit fresh members from Tinsukia and Dibrugarh Districts and from Dhemaji and Lakhimpur Districts. Simultaneously, the outfit has also started extortion once again, the official added.

  • December 21: The ‘general secretary’ of the ULFA, Golap Barua alias Anup Chetia, has moved the United Nations for refugee status and political asylum in a safe country once he is out of Bangladesh jail where he is now under trial. The ULFA mouthpiece ‘Swadhinata (Freedom)’ in its latest issue which has been made available through the Internet, informed that Anup Chetia, now lodged in a Bangladesh jail, has moved the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee through its Bangladesh office for political asylum and refugee status in a safe country as he fears ‘danger to his life’ once out from the jail.

  • December 19: One ULFA cadre, Mahesh Bora alias Biman Bora, was arrested at his village Nahorani under Jengraimukh Police Station in the Jorhat District.

  • December 18: The Army personnel arrested one ULFA link man, identified as Memera Mech at Jakripoduli village under Haloating Police Station in the Sivasagar District. Two hand made grenades were recovered from the possession of the captured linkman.

  • December 16: 38 militants belonging to different militant outfits of the North East, including the ULFA, NSCN-K, KLNLF, surrendered before Major General Jatinder Singh, General Officer in-Command of 2 Mountain Division, at its headquarter in Dinjan of Tinsukia District. Out of these, 16 were from ‘B’ company of ‘28th Battalion’ of ULFA, seven from ‘C’ company of ‘28th Battalion’ of ULFA, four from its headquarter, seven from NSCN-K and remaining four from KLNLF. Among the surrendered, there were two female cadres of ULFA. The surrendered militants handed over 35 weapons, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and a cache of ammunition.

    Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram warned Bangladesh not to allow terrorist outfits from India to carry out anti-India operations from its territory. While speaking in Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), he said, "The HuJI of Bangladesh had perpetrated the October 30 Asom serial blasts in which ULFA and NDFB were also involved," adding, most of the insurgent groups operating from the Northeast, including the ULFA, are based in Bangladesh. The Government had intelligence inputs that the ULFA and other insurgent groups in the Northeast have been working with the Bangladeshi terrorist outfit HuJI, the Home Minister added.

    The Union Government clarified that it had no dialogue with the self-styled ‘28th Battalion’ of the ULFA so far, reports Assam Tribune. According to the Government of Assam, two companies of ‘28th Battalion’ announced a unilateral cease-fire on June 24. Cadres of these two companies are staying in the designated camps set up by the State Government, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Radhika V. Selvi, in reply to a question by Narayan Chandra Borkataky in Parliament.

  • December 15: Two ULFA militants, identified as Shibo Chetia and Rupantar Gogoi, were arrested by the Army personnel from Cheleng village and Balipara Gaon respectively under Naharkatia Police station in the Dibrugarh District. One pistol and six rounds of ammunition were recovered from them.

  • December 11: SFs arrested a ULFA militant, Babul Deka alias Pulok Deka, from the Udalguri District.

  • December 10: Two women cadres of the ULFA, identified as Bandita alias Karabi Phukan of Mahmora Bhalukoni under Kakotibari Police station and Satyama Bailung alias Niharika a.k.a. Mamu of Timou Dabakhatia under Kakotibari Police Station, were arrested by Mathurapur Police of Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar District.

  • December 9: Assam Government announced a monetary package to rehabilitate and sustain the pro-peace ULFA cease-fire group. The package will be funded from both the central and the state Government fund in the initial phase so that time is not wasted in getting clearance. The group had asked for INR 3,000 for an unmarried cadre and INR 5,000 for a married cadre. The Centre now gives a consolidated stipend of INR 2,000 per month to a cadre in cease-fire period. Pro-peace leaders Mrinal Hazarika and Jiten Dutta welcomed this decision and termed it as positive.

  • December 8: The Army launched an operation in Sivasagar to neutralise the ‘B Company’ of ULFA’s ‘28 battalion’ and liberate Upper Assam from the clutches of the outfit. Army source said the operations were launched mid last week after authorities sent orders that no leniency be shown to ‘B company’ till its militants agree to a truce like the ‘Alpha and Charlie companies’, which declared a cease-fire in June 2008.

  • December 6: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs at Kurkarigaon under Kakotibari police station in the Sivasagar district. One of those killed was identified as Biraj Changmai. An AK-47 rifle and one 9mm pistol were recovered from the encounter site.

    An ULFA cadre, identified as Haresh Patmont alias Jyoti Patmont, was killed in an encounter with SFs at Gujarating in the Charaideo subdivision of Sivasagar district. SFs also arrested another ULFA cadre, Kiron Jyoti Gogoi, and recovered two 9mm pistol, one grenade, three magazines, one mobile phone, 15 live ammunition and INR 45,000 from the encounter site.

  • December 5: An ULFA bomb expert and ‘lieutenant’ of its ‘709 battalion’, identified as Tapan Rai, was shot dead in an encounter with a joint team of the army and police at Belguri in Kokrajhar district. One AK-47 rifle with two magazines of 16 rounds of live ammunition was recovered from his possession.

  • December 4: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the probe into the October 30 serial blasts in Assam has established the involvement of the ULFA and NDFB. During a press conference, he said, "We have evidence up to the level of ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah and NDFB ‘supremo’ Ranjan Daimary. But to get to the real brains behind the blasts, we need Central assistance, as we cannot go to the neighbouring countries where the ULFA and NDFB are having bases." Gogoi further said that the State’s militant outfits operating from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar had become "pawns in the hands of the HuJI, ISI and other forces" inimical to the State’s and country’s interests.

  • November 29: A joint team of 66 Field Regiment of Army and police arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Debanta Saikia, from Sapekhati in the Sivasagar district.

  • November 28: The ULFA was on an extortion drive in the upper Assam districts. A number of demand notes in ULFA’s pad were sent to a section of the doctors and businessmen of Sivasagar town. The demand notes bear the signature of Montu Saikia alias Bijoy Das, who is the ‘in-charge of finance’ of the ULFA in the district. Meanwhile, the police said that the demand notes are fake and do not resemble the usual ULFA demand notes. Police sources have, however, confirmed reports of ULFA’s extortion drive in the district and said that a four-member ULFA group under Montu Saikia has entered the district with intent to carry out extortion.

  • November 27: An attempt made by the ULFA militants to abduct an Afghan money lender from Aidoba area of Dhubri district was foiled when he managed to escape.

  • November 26: A joint team of police and the Army arrested one ULFA militant, Debendra Saikia from Moranhabi village under Sapekhati police station in the Sivasagar district. Another ULFA militant, ‘self-styled sergeant major’ Amar Kakoti alias Kushal Konwar, was arrested by security personnel from Majulipur under Jonai police station in the Lakhimpur district on the same day. One 9-mm pistol and ammunition were recovered from his possession.

  • November 25: Troops of 37 Assam Rifles arrested a United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadre during a search operation along Lungwa-Phomching road in the Mon district on November 25, according to Nagaland Post. He was identified as Dhanti Dutta of Sonari in Assam. A 303 rifle along with magazine and 10 live rounds and other incriminating documents were recovered from his possession.

    Telegraph quoting Meghalaya Police source reports that that the ULFA and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants are using the Liberation of Achik Elite Force (LAEF) cadres to make crude bombs. Police recovered five crude bombs along with other arms and ammunition and incriminating documents from the nine LAEF militants arrested in the Ri-Bhoi district bordering Assam on November 18. They suspect that the LAEF militants were making a base in a forest area near Pilangkatta in the Ri-Bhoi district and were seeking logistic support from the ULFA and NDFB cadres.

  • November 24: Two ULFA militants, identified as Hira Gogoi alias Debojit Dutta and Dipu Saikia alias Dipu, surrendered at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Golaghat district. They also laid down a revolver, an AK-47 and 30 rounds of ammunition.

  • November 23: The Sivasagar police and army personnel recovered a cache of explosives, including 10 kilograms of RDX, from the residence of a person, Shivlal Sarmah, at Hunaipur Soraihojiya under Geleki police station, after an encounter with the ULFA militants. However, the militants who took shelter at Shivlal’s residence managed to escape from the incident site.

    Telegraph reports that the ULFA and NSCN-K are holding joint training sessions in the Lohit, Tirap and Changlang districts of Arunachal Pradesh fearing possible army crackdowns in Assam and Nagaland. A group of 30 newly recruited ULFA cadres are undergoing a two months’ advanced training in villages bordering Changlang and Myanmar under the supervision of ‘sergeant commander’ Anjan Borthakur of the ‘B company of 28 battalion’ of the ULFA, the outfit’s ‘publicity secretary’ Michael Deka and the commander of NSCN–K Siv Konyak. "After two months of training, the cadres will head for Myanmar to join other group members. It is an alarming trend. This is the first time that Ulfa and NSCN (K) are jointly conducting such advanced training courses in the state," a police source said. The villages in Mahadevpur circle of Lohit district, Ponchau circle of Tirap district and Bordumsa circle of Changlang district are the outfits’ new havens. Both groups have held recruitment drives in Lohit and received ‘satisfactory response’, sources said. The report added that altogether 40 new cadres were recruited in Mahikong, Malemna, Maling, Manchal areas under Mahadevpur circle in the district. The NSCN-K also recruited about 20 cadres from Khanu, Khasa, Bonya, Konnu and Konsa areas of Tirap district in the past three months. The ULFA has also begun a fresh recruitment drives in Borkhet Chaimu, Chamro and Changlai villages of Changlang district. The report also said that the stretch from Chessa to Chengmara along the Arunachal-Assam border is used by militants from Assam as an escape route.

  • November 21: Assam Police arrested a person, Nikhil Rai, from his residence at Bangiamari village in the Dhubri district for his suspected links with the ULFA.

  • November 20: An unidentified ULFA militant was shot dead by security force personnel during an encounter on the embankment of Bornadi at Hindu-Moijali village under Baihata Chariali police station in the Kamrup district.

  • November 19: A self-styled ‘sergeant major of the 28 battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Ram Singh alias Mintu Borgohain, was arrested by the Sivasagar district police and 318 Field Regiment of the Army during a joint search operation at Jabalating under Bokota Nemoguri police station.

    The Army and police during a joint search operation arrested a militant Golap Ali of Alibari under Palasbari police station in the Kamrup district. Gelatine sticks, detonators and a copy of an extortion note of the ULFA were recovered from his possession.

  • November 16: The investigation into the Assam serial blasts of October 30 has revealed a close nexus between the ULFA and NDFB with Bhutan-based Maoist rebel groups, reports Assam Tribune. Police sources said that the ULFA and NDFB are against the Bhutan Government because of the Operation All Clear launched against the outfits in 2003, while the Maoist groups are strongly opposed to the move of the Government of the neighbouring country to evict a sizeable number of Nepali populations from southern Bhutan. In recent years, the ULFA and NDFB extended help to the Maoist groups active in Bhutan by providing them with explosives. These facts came to light following the arrest of a Bhutanese national, Tenzing Zengpo, during investigations into the serial blasts. Zengpo was arrested along with one of the suspects in the case in Guwahati city. During interrogation, the Bhutanese national admitted the long association they had with the ULFA and NDFB. Sources revealed that Zengpo was earlier the general secretary of the Druk National Congress of Bhutan and is currently associated with Maoist groups active in Bhutan.

  • November 15: The troops arrested one ULFA militant, Pradip Kumar Roy, from Koimari village in the Kokrajhar district.

  • November 14: The investigations into the October 30 blasts in Assam revealed that the ULFA has once again found its way into Bhutan. Police sources said that they had information about an ULFA camp on Bhutanese territory near Barpathar village in Assam’s Chirang district. Two top rank cadres of ULFA’s ‘709 battalion’, identified as self-styled ‘second lieutenant’ Baba Rabha and ‘sergeant major’ Kushal Das, are the in-charge of the camp that has around 150 cadres. Police suspect that the commandant of the ‘4th battalion’ of the NDFB, Ritikhang, is hiding in that camp.

  • November 13: An IED weighing 10 kilograms was recovered at Jaboka under Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district on Sonari-Namtola road during a joint operation by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Army and Police personnel. The bomb was planted in a pressure cooker under a culvert. Security personnel also recovered a 30-metre wire and four batteries from the spot. It is suspected that the ‘28th battalion’ of ULFA had planted the bomb.

  • November 11: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in a press conference at Guwahati said that the investigations revealed clear indications of the involvement of the cadres of the ULFA and NDFB in the October 30 serial bomb blasts. He also said that forces based outside the country might have extended support to the militant groups to carry out the operation. However, he said that it is not clear which force from outside provided help to the ULFA and NDFB militants as a number of anti-India groups have their bases in Bangladesh. He also expressed the view that no force from outside would be able to carry out any major attack in the State without the help of the "local militant groups."

    November 10: The Darrang district police arrested an ULFA militant, Neela Deka alias Chamappa, for his involvement in the killing of a surrendered ULFA cadre.

  • November 9: A ULFA linkman, Tutul Borgohain, was arrested by a joint force of Army and Sivasagar District Police from Loraphuta village. A mobile handset with a SIM card containing phone numbers of ULFA cadres was recovered from his possession.

    After remaining silent for about three months, the ULFA has launched a fund-raising drive in Sivasagar district, reports Sentinel. According to reports, the ULFA has sent at least 15 extortion letters to businessmen and ONGC employees of the town. Police sources confirmed the reports and said a four-member ULFA group under the leadership of Montu Saikia has entered the district. The group also had a woman ULFA cadre, sources added. After the ceasefire by ‘A’ and ‘B’ companies of 28 battalion of the ULFA, all the companies under the battalion were merged and Sujit Mohan was appointed as the "commander" of the 28 battalion. Montu Saikia has been given the charge of finance in the district, and all the extortion letters bear the signature of Sujit Mohan.

    The investigating agencies had found clues that ULFA and NDFB carried out the Assam serial blast of October 30 with the help of Bangladesh-based HuJI. "We have found that the Bangladesh-based HuJI has provided the expertise to ULFA and NDFB as none of them has the technology to explode such devastating bombs which claimed 84 lives," a Home Ministry official said. Home Ministry sources also added that the government is worried over the fact that the northeast militants has started using a deadly mixture of RDX, ammonium nitrate and plasticised explosives to carry out explosions which led to greater casualties which was never seen in the past. Though the operation was masterminded by HuJI at the behest of the ISI, the NDFB and ULFA had provided logistical support.

  • November 7: One unidentified ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with Army at Lakhipur under Borbori police station in the Baksa district. One 9mm pistol with 3 rounds live ammunition, some incriminating documents, about 2 Kilograms of explosive substances and the motor cycle used by them recovered from the slain militants.

    The Assam Police arrested three militants of ULFA along with nine kilograms of TNT at Kolia Bhomora Bridge over the Brahmaputra in the Tezpur district.

  • November 6: Army arrested a ULFA linkman, Bhogeswar Panging of Chenimiora village under Sivasagar police station following the confessions made by Parikshit Gogoi, an ULFA militant who was arrested on November 3 from Panbessa village.

    The Tripura Government has submitted a comprehensive report to the Union Home Ministry on terrorists backing militant outfits in the region, especially Asom-based ULFA and Tripura-based ATTF, State Home Department sources said. According to reports, the issue was also discussed at a high-level security review meeting, chaired by National security Advisor M K Narayanan, with police chiefs of the region. It was also revealed at the meeting that the blasts in Asom were reportedly carried out by Bangladesh-based HuJI in coordination with local outfit ULFA and serial bomb blasts in Agartala were attributed to ATTF-ULFA combine. The report also states that Pakistan-based ISI, Al-Qaeda and Bangladesh-based HuJI. The militants were using Sonamura, Agartala and Kailashahar in Tripura and Karimganj and towns of upper Asom for entering India.

  • November 5: The officials investigating the October 30 serial bomb blasts in Assam said that the ULFA was behind the attack.

  • November 4: A joint team of the Army and Police arrested Parikshit Gogoi of ‘B Company’ of the ULFA’s ‘28 battalion’ in the Sivasagar district along with more than 1kg RDX, a pistol and a grenade.

    The 318 Field Regiment of the Army arrested one ULFA militant, Mrinal Kanti Cheleng from Khamung gaon under Kakotibari police station in the same district.

  • November 3: A surrendered ULFA cadre, Sanjib Baruah, was shot dead by the militants of the same outfit in the Darrang district.

    A joint team of Army and Assam Police arrested a militant of the ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Mohan Das. The arrested militant had taken shelter at the residence of an ULFA linkman, Mantu Kalita, at Niznamati village under Barama police station in the Nalbari district, reports Telegraph. Police also arrested three other ULFA linkmen, Bhaskar Kalita, Sourav Kalita and Vikash Kalita, in this connection.

    The Army arrested one ULFA linkman, Lachit Rajkonwar, from his residence at Bengenabari in Charaideo subdivision of Sivsagar district.

  • October 31: Security personnel while probing a possible HuJI-ULFA link to the October 30-serial blasts arrested over 20 suspects including two vehicle owners. According to police sources, Asib Mohammed Nizami and Zulfikar Ali, who are the owners of two vehicles in which the bombs were concealed in Ganeshguri area of the city and Bongaigaon, were arrested from Jhuria Dagaon in the Nagaon district. "While suspecting the hand of the Bangladesh-based HuJI outfit, police claimed to have got clues that the blasts were carried out by people having local links", a top Assam police official said.

    Pro-peace ULFA leader Prabal Neog denied the outfit’s alleged role in the October 30-serial blast in Assam. Neog said that, "This is an act of total inhumanity and the state government will have to take the entire responsibility for this disaster. ULFA had never targeted innocents during its operations. Our target was always the security forces, government establishments, Oil and railway installations". There must be some external forces behind this blast, he further added. Moreover, ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua, also denied ULFA’s role in the blast.

  • October 30: A total of 77 persons were killed and about 300 injured in 13 near-simultaneous blasts in Assam capital Dispur and adjoining city Guwahati and three other districts- Kokrajhar, Barpeta, and Bongaigaon. Police said that the involvement of jihadi groups like the Bangladesh-based HuJI-B militants cannot be ruled out. The police are also examining whether the ULFA was involved in the blasts.

    The ULFA in an e-mail statement denied its hand in the blasts and alleged that a section of the government officials deliberately blamed the outfit to derail the possible peace process.

  • October 27: The Mangaldai police arrested one militant of the ULFA, when he was coming to collect extortion money of INR 150,000 from a Junior Engineer of Mangaldai town in the Darrang district. Later the militant was identified as Sanjay Barman of Namsala village under Sarthebari police station in the Barpeta district.

    A self-styled ‘sergeant major’ of ‘109th battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Niren Das alias Jibon Das, surrendered before Deputy Commissioner R.C. Jain and Superintendent of Police Debajit Hazarika in the Kamrup district.

  • october 26: Around 30 militants led by a self-styled ‘sergeant major’ Rafel Maradona of the ‘709th battalion’ of the ULFA declared cease-fire. The report added that they are camping at a designated area in Moiradonga.

    Security forces located a training camp run by the ULFA at Bakapura in the Sherpur district across the international border with Meghalaya. The camp was located following the arrests and surrender of a few cadres who came to Assam from that camp. The report added around 150 ULFA militants, including middle rank leaders such as Antu Chowdang, Pradyut Gohain and Drishti Rajkhowa, are hiding in the camp. The intelligence sources mentioned that the ULFA must be receiving direct or indirect help from the DGFI or from the BDR as it would not have been possible for the militant group to run a camp so close to the international border.

  • October 25: Five ULFA militants and a soldier were killed during an encounter between a joint team of the Army and CRPF personnel and militants at Mahina village in the Nalbari district. The slain militants, including one identified as Corporal Sanjit Sarania, belonged to the ‘709th battalion’ of the ULFA. One kilogram of RDX, four pistols, two grenades, one radio set, 29 rounds of live ammunition, one K.G. of urea, two IEDs, nine detonators, five magazines of SLR and fuse wires were recovered from the encounter site.

  • October 24: Police has established direct links with Hira Sarania, leader of the ‘709th battalion’ of the ULFA, to bring overground the last potent fighting arm of the outfit. Police sources said "though Sarania had not committed himself for peace but not rejected the idea either". "He had not snapped communication with us, which itself raises a lot of hope", unidentified Police sources said. The ‘sergeant major’ of ULFA, Bhaskar Rajbongshi, who surrendered in Guwahati a couple of months back, was acting as the link between the police and the battalion commander. After his surrender, Rajbongshi got in touch with Sarania to persuade him to follow the path of the leaders of the 28th battalion.

    The ULFA accused Jiten Dutta, a senior pro-talks leader of 28th battalion, of killing many innocent people, while he was in the outfit, to destroy the image of the outfit with the help of Indian security force. The accusation comes in the wake of protests by civilians in Kakopathar area of Tinsukia district over the killing of youths in the Kumsang reserve forest on September 30. The statement also mentioned that the killing was carried out without the knowledge of the outfit’s top leadership. The ULFA spokesperson said that protests in Kakopathar against the outfit over the killings were also instigated by Dutta.

  • October 22: A ULFA militant, Diganta Buragohain, was arrested by the Guwahati city Police when he came to collect money from a city-based trader.

    Hundreds of people, including women and the elderly, led by various organisations, gathered in front of Kakopathar Boys Higher Secondary School and staged a protest in the incident of killing of five Assamese youths by the ULFA, whose decomposed bodies and skeletons were found in Kumsang reserve forest on September 30. This protest showed that the ULFA had loosen its feet in the Dibrugarh district especially in Kakopathar area, where the outfit had enjoyed unflinching support, till the mass grave at their erstwhile camp was discovered.

  • October 21: The Government of India had clarified that it has not received any ‘formal proposal’ from ULFA for direct talks. The Minister of State for Home Affairs, Radhika V Selvi in a reply to the question by Narayan Chandra Borkotoki in Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) said that "The Government of India is open to talks with any militant groups including ULFA provided that they should stop violence first".

  • October 17: Police arrested a surrendered ULFA cadre, Dipen Barhoi, on charges of extortion at Mariani in the Jorhat district.

    ULFA is recruiting new cadres under the ‘supervision’ of the self-styled ‘commander’ of the ‘28th Battalion’, Bijoy Chinese, and ‘Lieutenant’ Antu Saudang, in the Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat districts. The report added that the new recruits are being sent to Myanmar for training under the ‘guidance’ of ULFA senior cadre Jiban Moran. As a result of this recruitment drive, the number of trainees at Myanmar camp since the announcement of ceasefire by two companies of the 28th battalion of ULFA has reportedly increased to 130 cadres, who are being trained by Jiban Moran. Intelligence sources further claimed that more than 40 new recruits from Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts were sent to Myanmar camp for training.

  • October 16: Unidentified militants killed a civilian, identified as Ratul Das at Quarry Chowk under Mushalpur police station in the Baksa district.

  • October 15: Three ULFA militants, Indrajit Roy from Baterhat, Nihar Barua from Coochbehar and Sheikh Mohammed from Chapor were arrested by the 21st Jat Regiment in Dhubri district. One US-made 7.65 mm pistol, 2 magazines, six rounds of live ammunition and one mobile set with SIM cards were recovered from their possession, who ran an extortion racket.

  • October 14: Troopers of the Red Horns Division of the Army arrested two suspected ULFA cadres from the Agomoni areas under Golokganj police station in Dhubri district. One 9-mm pistol, six rounds of live ammunitions, two mobile sets were recovered from the two militants.

    Investigations have pointed at the involvement of ULFA in the October 1 serial blast in the Tripura capital, Agartala. Interrogation of ATTF collaborators Shanti Debbarma, Angad Santhal and a third arrested person, Brajamohan Debbarma the father of hardcore ATTF militant Surjya has revealed that ULFA militants had provided primary training in the use of explosives to a group of ATTF militants, besides supplying them bomb-making materials. CID’s report said that Surjya Debbarma masterminded the blasts. The investigation further revels that a group of ATTF activists, including Surjya, had undergone primary training in use of explosives under the guidance of ULFA, before being intensively trained by a group of BDR and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officers at Muksinghat near Chittagong town in Bangladesh in August and September. The ATTF had received a consignment of bomb-making materials from ULFA in their hideout at Satcherri just across the border in Simna area of Sadar (north) and the materials had been carried across the border by two tea garden labourers of Satcherri, Mohan Munda and Mangal Munda, under the supervision of Surjya.

  • October 13: One Girish Kalita of Belguri Pathar village under Mushalpur police station in the Nalbari district was shot dead at Lamidara by two unidentified assailants. Kalita was an ULFA activist who surrendered at the Tamulpur Army Camp three months back.

    Three militants, one each from NDFB, AANLA and ULFA, surrendered before Brigadier VSBS Cherukupalli, Commander of 25 Sector Assam Rifles of Dah Division, at Lekhapani in Tinsukia district. The surrendered militants were identified as Ajay Basumatary of NDFB, Ghanshyam Guala of AANLA and Hemakant Deka of ULFA’s ‘27 Battalion’.

    The former ‘commander’ of the pro-talk faction of the 28th Battalion of the ULFA, Mrinal Hazarika has said that former ‘commander’ of A and C companies of ULFA Jiten Dutta is in no way involved in the killing of four youths whose decomposed bodies were recovered on September 30 from a mass grave at Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district. He also alleged that the present ‘commander’ of the 28 Battalion Bijoy Chinese was directly involved in the killing. Hazarika further disclosed that the youths were killed on charges of supplying all information to Army by then ‘commander’ of the A company, Arun Baruah on the direct instruction of Bijoy Chinese.

    After neutralising two fighting wings of the ULFA, the 28 and 709 battalions, the government now has set its sights on the 109 battalion which is the logistics division of the outfit. This ‘battalion’ operates out of Goalpara district and its adjoining areas across the Assam-Meghalaya border. The 109 battalion mainly looks after the logistical requirements of ULFA, men and weapons and helps the rebels from Assam to cross over to Bangladesh. It also arranges passage for cadres from the neighbouring country to the state through the Garo hills of Meghalaya.

  • September 30: The dead bodies of four youths were recovered from a mass grave in the reserve forest at Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district, where makeshift camps of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA were located a few months ago. The mass grave was suspected to be the dumping ground of dead bodies of those who had been abducted and later killed by the ULFA militants.

    The Army killed a ULFA militant at Rangali Botuwagaon under Kakotibari police station in the Sivasagar district. A 9-mm pistol, three live rounds, 600 grams of explosives, four detonators, four bundles of wires, clothes and documents were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • September 29: The cease-fire group of ‘28 battalion’ of the ULFA asked Assam Government to call off army operations from Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts of upper Assam on an "experimental basis" to give the peace process a chance.

  • September 28: The Guwahati city police arrested ULFA militant, Pranjal Saika from the area under the Fatasil Ambari police station and recovered a hand-made pistol from his possession.

  • September 26: A ULFA militant was killed during an encounter with security forces in the Baksa district. A pistol, several rounds of ammunition and some documents were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • September 25: The dead body of Manashjyoti Dutta, son of a co-operative inspector, abducted by the ULFA militants from Nazira in Sivasagar district of Assam on September 8, was found from a place near Nazira police station. The ULFA militants had demanded INR 1.5 million for the release of Manashjyoti. The police arrested one Pradip Dutta, a relative of Manashjyoti in this connection.

  • September 24: The security forces arrested one Tutu Saikia, an ULFA militant at Panbesa in the Sivasagar district. He was allegedly involved in the Rangghar Chariali blast.

  • September 21: The Army personnel arrested a cadre of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, identified as Prafulla Roy, of Kukshi village under Fakiragram police station in Kokrajhar district. Two IED each weighing three kilograms were recovered from his possession and were later defused by bomb squad.

  • September 19: In a statement from Dibrugarh, the former ‘self-styled commander’ of ULFA Prabal Neog, questioned the decision of the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, not to withdraw army from the State. Neog is one of the leading figures of the pro-peace ULFA faction.

  • September 18: ULFA militants killed an alleged Army informer, Pramod Baishya, at Chengapathar village under Kalaigaon police station in the Udalguri district.

    An improvised explosive device (IED) planted on a bicycle exploded inside Bijni circle office compound in the Chirang district injuring 22 persons. The ULFA is suspected to be involved in the incident.

  • September 16: The Army said that Shashankar Baruah, who was killed in the September 12 encounter with the troops in Dirak Reserve Forest Area near Margherita in the Tinsukia district, was involved in re-organisation of the ULFA.

  • September 15: An ULFA militant, identified as Uddhab Rai, was arrested by the security forces during a joint operation at Golokganj area in the Dhubri district

  • September 12: Troops of the 19 Kumaon Regiment killed a ULFA militant, identified as ‘second lieutenant" Sasanka Baruah alias Ananta Gogoi, during an encounter inside Upper Dehin-Derak Reserve forest in the Tinsukia district along the Assam-Arunachal border. He was reportedly the ‘organisational secretary of the 28 battalion’ of the outfit. An AK-56 rifle and a magazine with four live rounds and 26 empty cartridges were recovered from the encounter site.

    In a statement mailed to the media, the ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa declared ‘expulsion’ of Prabal Neog from the outfit for his alleged conspiracy in killing of Sasanka Baruah.

  • September 8: The Nalbari police recovered an IED near National Highway-31 from a bus on way to Nalbari from Rangiya in the Kamrup district. Two suspected paid bomb couriers of the ULFA, identified as Siraj Ali and Baputi Das, were arrested in this connection.

  • September 5: A cadre of the ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA, identified as Dhan Kalita alias Joon was arrested by Guwahati city police during a search operation at Amingaon area.

  • September 2: ULFA militant, Gajen Malakar was shot dead by security forces during an encounter at Dakshin Singra near Rangia in the Kamrup district.

  • August 31: An ULFA cadre, Rabi Rava, surrenders along with an AK-56 rifle at Udalguri Army camp. Rava is a cadre of the ‘27 battalion’ of ULFA. He had joined the outfit in 1996.

    Army arrested four ULFA linkmen while they were trying to extort INR 150000 from the manager of a tea garden in the Sisumaria area under Nampur police station in the Tinsukia district. They were identified as Kulinda Gogoi, Pintu Kisan, Kebal Bangra, and Rajesh Kisan.

  • August 28: 39 militants, including 31 cadres of the ‘709 and 27 battalions’ of the ULFA, surrendered before the Army at the headquarters of the 21 Mountain Division at Rangia, about 45 kilometres way from Guwahati. The others included five KLNLF cadres and cadres from the AANLA. The surrendered militants deposited a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including pistols, revolvers, grenades, detonators and gelatine sticks.

  • August 27: The pro-talks group of the ULFA starts negotiations with some of the prominent leaders of the ‘709 battalion’ in Nalbari. Jiten Dutta, self-styled commander of the ‘Alfa and Charlie companies of the 28 battalion’, said one round of talks is already over and he was expecting a formal announcement of cease-fire by leaders of the ‘709 battalion’ soon. "Right now we can only say that the discussions were along the expected lines," Dutta said.

  • August 25: Guwahati Police arrested one Poornima Biswas and recovered two detonators, four gelatin sticks and 10 rounds of AK-47 ammunition from her possession. Biswas is originally from Malda in West Bengal and the police suspects that she has links with the ULFA.

  • August 25: Two ULFA linkmen, identified as Nabacharan Koch and Samudra Rava of Jangipara and Baspara villages respectively, are arrested in a joint operation by the Army and police.

  • August 23: The ULFA threatens its defected leader, Jiten Dutta, with dire consequences if the latter continues its efforts in collusion with police and the Army to engineer erosion in the ranks of different ‘battalions’ of the ULFA.

  • August 22: Five ULFA linkmen, Rituram Boro, Sankar Deb Sangha, Dipesh Roy, Sanjoy Singha and Bipul Singha, are arrested in Bongaigaon. They are suspected to have been involved in bomb blasts in the district in the recent past.

  • August 21: An unnamed senior police officer said the leadership of the ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA was in contact with the police leadership and a formal cease-fire by the group was ‘likely very soon’.

    Two ULFA militants, Madhusudan Roy and Monu Roy, are arrested by the Army personnel during a search operation at Agomoni in the Dhubri district. 27 rounds of live ammunition of AK-47 rifles are recovered from them.

  • August 20: The Nalbari district police arrested a cadre of the ‘709 Battalion’ of the ULFA, Bhaskar Rajbongshi, from Maligaon in Guwahati. Bhaskar said that he would not surrender but try his best to bring his co-cadres in the outfit to the negotiation table.

  • August 18: Police arrested a ULFA cadre, Tajen Ray, from Tamuapara in the Bongaigaon district. A Bulgarian pistol with 39 live rounds and a Chinese grenade are recovered from him.

  • August 17: Troops arrest three ULFA militants from Kokrajhar town. One pistol, one grenade, one AK series magazine and 11 live ammunitions are recovered from them.

  • August 16: One suspected ULFA militant is wounded during an encounter with police personnel at Azara in Guwahati.

    Two bomb blasts are triggered by suspected ULFA militants at Swahidbedi and Paglathan in the Bongaigaon district.

  • August 15: Two civilians are wounded in a bomb blast triggered by the ULFA at the Block Development Office near the venue of Independence Day celebration at Dharmasala in the Dhubri district.

    One bomb hanging on a tree on the parade ground at Gauripur town of Dhubri district explodes. Another blast occurs near the parade venue at Kajalgaon in the Chirang district when suspected ULFA militants lob a grenade. None were injured in these incidents.

    People chased a group of three ULFA militants while trying to destroy a flag hoisted on the premises of the Bhutiapara Lower Primary School in the Chirang district. Even as the militants opened fire to scare the public, the locals captured the two militants. One 9-mm pistol and some ammunition were recovered from them.

  • August 13: Two ULFA militants are shot dead by Assam Police and the Army during an encounter at Sanyasini Pahar in the Bongaigaon district. Two German-made revolvers, two bullets, five empty cartridges and two mobile handsets with many SIM cards are recovered from the possession of the slain militants. Other militants manage to escape from the encounter site.

    SFs recovered RDX weighing 2.25 kilo grams in the form of 10 solid sticks with black coating from Borkona Pahar under Mancachar police station in the Dhubri district. Police suspect that the ULFA was ferrying the consignment.

  • August 12: Two ULFA militants are shot dead by troops during an encounter at Chotemari in the Nalbari district. One 7.62-mm pistol, a bullet, a grenade and IEDs weighing five kilograms are recovered from the possession of the slain militants.

  • August 11: One unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead by troops during an encounter at Paikan Madhapara in the Goalpara district. One IED weighing five kilograms with electronic detonators, a 7.65- mm pistol and three rounds of ammunition are recovered from his possession.

    Suspected ULFA militants lob a grenade at the office premises of the Bongaigaon District Superintendent of Police damaging a few windowpanes.

  • August 10: Four militant groups - the ULFA, Manipur People’s Liberation Front, Tripura People’s Democratic Front and the KLO – ask people in the Northeast region to boycott the celebrations of Independence Day on August 15

  • August 9: During a search operation to arrest an ULFA cadre, the SFs unearthed a bunker made of concrete wall at a bamboo grove at Pakamara village under Borbori police station in the Baksa district.

    Two IEDs planted by the suspected ULFA militants at Gouripur in the Dhubri district are recovered and later defused by the Army personnel. The report adds that the IED can be programmed in a manner that if the first detonator fails to trigger the explosion, the second one will get activated automatically. "This enhances the precision of the IEDs as well as making deactivation very risky. Timer devices are generally very erratic. Many a times they fail to explode because of a problem in programming. But in this kind of device, if one programme fails, it automatically activates the other," an unnamed Army explosive expert says.

  • August 8: One ULFA linkman, identified as Jakir Hussain, was arrested during a joint operation by Army and Assam Police at Phuturigaon under Chaygaon police station in Kamrup district. A trans-receiver device with the capacity to intercept other radio messages within 30 kilometres range was also recovered from his possession..

  • August 7: Suspected ULFA militants trigger a bomb blast in Bongaigaon damaging a portion of a drain.

    One suspected ULFA cadre, Subhrata Chanda, is arrested by the Guwahati Police from the Inter-State Bus Terminus. Two gelatine sticks and many detonators are recovered from his possession.

  • August 5: Army arrested two ULFA cadres, Abdul Zumur Sheikh and Ismail Murmu, from Gossaigaon.

  • August 4: A trooper of the Sashastra Seema Bal (a paramilitary force), Rana Sarma, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Malihita on the Assam-Bhutan border under Chirang district.

  • One senior ULFA leader and ‘commander’ of the outfit’s 109th battalion, Dharmen Hajong, who was arrested on August 2-night, allegedly committed suicide inside a cell at Tura police station in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. Police said he used his blanket to hang himself inside the cell. Hajong, who was originally from the 28th battalion, two months back replaced Madan Koch, killed in an encounter on January 22, as the ‘area commander’ of the 109th battalion in charge of Garo Hills, was mainly responsible for monitoring supply of arms and ammunition from Bangladesh to cadres in Assam via the porous Garo Hills border.

  • August 2: A senior ULFA leader is arrested from Tura Super Market in Meghalaya. According to police sources, the ULFA leader, identified as Dharmen Koch, belonged to the 128th Battalion of the outfit and he had been running a shop in Tura Super Market for the past two months. During interrogation, Dharmen revealed that two months ago he received an order from the ULFA leadership to shift the Battalion to Myanmar since the atmosphere in Bangladesh was not conductive for the organisation. One week later, he was again asked to take over as 'area commander' of ULFA's 109th Battalion in Garo Hills from Madan Koch who was killed in a police encounter on January 22, 2007. Police said the 109th Battalion was involved in supplying arms to the ULFA from Bangladesh through Garo Hills. The Battalion also carried out extortion drives in the plain belt areas of Garo Hills.

  • July 31: One ULFA cadre is arrested with a sophisticated digital mine along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

  • July 30: Assam Tribune reported that the ULFA has business interests in a leading media house, the Transcom Media, in Bangladesh. Transcom Media is the publisher of the prestigious Bengali daily Prothom Alo, English daily The Daily Star, besides two periodicals. The report adds that the outfit‘s business interests are diverse – ranging from driving schools, nursing homes, hotels to garment export houses to deep-sea trawlers.

  • July 27: The pro-talks leader of the ULFA, Prabal Neog, while addressing a gathering at Gondhoiguri in the Tinsukia district said that "a handful of leaders and cadres" cannot usher in peace in Assam.

  • July 25: One trader, Pankaj Kumar Bezbaruah of Tihu area in Nalbari district, who was abducted by three United ULFA militants on July 3-evening, is released. Meanwhile, the Nalbari district All Assam Students Union secretary, Salim Malik, is arrested in this connection.

  • July 23: Three cadres of the ULFA’s ‘709 battalion’ are killed in an encounter with Army and police at Namati village under Ghograpar police station in the Nalbari district.

  • July 21: One ULFA linkman, Mukul Saikia, is arrested by the troops from the Dalang Ghat area in the Darrang district.

  • July 20: The ULFA rules out peace talks with the Union Government in the near future, stating that it would go down fighting like the father of Naga insurgency A.Z. Phizo "rather than surrender to the Indian forces like (former Mizoram chief minister) Laldenga."

  • July 19: An ULFA leader, Amrit Dutta, is killed in an encounter with the police at Katonihati Jurbil under the Jengraimukh police station in Jorhat district. However, two of his accomplices managed to escape. Amrit Dutta carried a head money of INR 300,000 and was responsible for the abduction and subsequent killing of Sanjay Ghose, an activist of the non-governmental organisation AVARD-NE in 1997.

    Police arrested a person, Ranjan Bikash Borgohain, from the residence of a Parliamentarian, Anowar Hussain, in New Delhi, while trying to extort money in the name of ULFA. Hussain is a Parliamentarian from the Dhubri constituency in Assam. Ranjan had contested the last Legislative Assembly elections from Tingkhong seat in Assam on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.

  • July 18 : The ULFA ideologue, Bhimkanta Buragohain, is remanded to 14 days judicial custody in connection with the various charges against him under the Arms Act. He is presented before the Tezpur Additional District Sessions Judge along with two other accomplices, Bolin Das alias Amarjyoti Gogoi and Amulya Roy, who were also awarded similar sentences.

    The former commander of ULFA’s 28 battalion, Mrinal Hazarika, addressing a gathering at the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, said: "Come what may, we will not take up guns against our colleagues, even if we are attacked."

  • July 11: The ULFA militants belonging to ‘A’ and ‘C’ companies of the ‘28 battalion’ led by Mrinal Hazarika start taking shelter at the designated camp set up at the jail complex of Chapakhowa under Sadiya sub-division in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 10: The leader of the pro-talks faction of the ULFA, Moon Borah alias Jiten Dutta, said that they had proposed to set up a designated camp at Lakhipathar in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 7: Two ULFA militants, Prasanna Bora and Mintu Bhuyan, are arrested by the Assam Police at Chardwar in the Sonitpur district. They were arrested while coming to one Jayanta Sen Deka, a Congress party leader of the area, to extort money which was demanded a few days back by the outfit.

  • July 8: Around 5,000 people gather at an auditorium in Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district to endorse the path of peace chosen by a section of the ULFA’s ‘28th battalion’.

  • July 7: The ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said that three pro-talks leaders of the ‘28th battalion’, Mrinal Hazarika, Moon Borah alias Jiten Dutta and Joon Sonowal alias Joon Bhuyan, are expelled from the primary membership of the outfit for ‘anti-organisational’ activities and initiating talks with ‘colonial India’.

  • July 6: Nearly 150 surrendered ULFA cadres of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia gather at Chabua and urge the Union Government, Assam Government and the ULFA leadership to "look beyond their respective rigid stands and simply come forward for direct talks."

  • July 5: The ULFA ‘commander’ Jiten Dutta said that leaders and cadres of the ‘28 battalion’ of the outfit would not lay down arms though it had announced a unilateral cease-fire with the Government.

    The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa said the outfit will not dissolve the People’s Consultative Group constituted by it to facilitate the peace talks.

  • July 4: Assam Government offers security to the leaders and cadres of the ‘A and C companies of 28 battalion’ of the ULFA, who had recently declared a cease-fire, similar to the kind of protection provided to surrendered militants.

  • July 3: Army arrested one ULFA cadre, Manik Baruah, from Athrighat along Baksa-Udalguri border. He is from the ‘707 Battalion’ of the outfit.

  • July 2: Mangaldai police arrest three persons in connection with the June 29 killing of a surrendered ULFA cadre, Tapan Saikia, by ULFA militants at Jaljali in the Darrang district. They are identified as Ajoy Saikia, Bhaben Das and Bipul Deka.

    Police said that the ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua, and two other leaders, Chitraban Hazarika and Antu Chowdang, are respectively known as Kamruj Zamal, Mizanur Rehman and Khan Baba in Bangladesh. "We have compiled a detailed report vis-à-vis residential addresses, the Islamic names and business dealings of each and every militant leader currently staying in Bangladesh," an unnamed police officer said.

  • July 1: The ULFA mentioned in the editorial of its mouthpiece Freedom that the security of sovereignty of Assam was never a precondition of the group, and it was only an agenda of talks. "The security of sovereignty of Asom was never a precondition of the ULFA. It was the media that hyped the issue of sovereignty and projected it as one of our preconditions," the editorial said, adding, "for peace talks with the Government of India, the ULFA had only two preconditions — any talks with the Government of India should be held in a third country and that should be under UN mediation. We, however, dropped these two preconditions also when the PCG went to New Delhi to do the spadework for the peace process."

  • June 30 : A bomb planted by the ULFA militants explodes at Diphu town in the Karbi Anglong district.

    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the ULFA was serving the interest of the forces inimical to India including that of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

  • June 30: Mrinal Hazarika, ‘commander of the 28th battalion’ of the ULFA, appeals to the other ‘battalions’ of the outfit to enter into a cease-fire for the sake of the people of Assam.

  • June 29: At least seven persons are killed and 35 others, including two policemen, are injured in an explosion at a weekly crowded marketplace in the Kumarikata village of Nalbari district. Police accused the ULFA for the blast.

    One surrendered ULFA cadre, Tapan Saikia, is shot dead by four suspected ULFA militants at Jaljali in Mangaldoi.

    At least five persons, including two policemen, were injured in a grenade blast triggered by the ULFA militants at Teliapatty in Nagaon.

    At least seven persons are killed and 35 others, including two policemen, are injured in an explosion at a weekly crowded marketplace in Kumarikata village of Nalbari district. Police accused the ULFA for the blast.

    June 28 : Bangladeshi journal Narinjara News reports that the ULFA cadres staying in Maungdaw town of Myanmar have been preparing to set up a generator powered by paddy husk to supply electricity. "The group is now setting up a generator in Maungdaw town and will start the distribution of electricity from July or August," the journal said. The generator would provide power to Maungdaw for five to six hours a day. The journal added that about 20 ULFA members are living in Maungdaw where they run cosmetic shops, a computer cafe, and a telephone booth.

  • June 26: One woman, identified as Joyanti Koch, who used to provide ULFA with information, is arrested while she was moving out of Mancachar in Dhubri district.

    An unidentified ULFA militant is killed while two others manage to escape in an encounter with the security forces (SFs) at Maju village in the Nalbari district. A 9-mm pistol and a grenade were recovered from his possession. Police said three militants, who were taking shelter in a house, tried to flee by lobbing a grenade when the SFs raided the village. Two others managed to flee.

  • June 25 : Following the unilateral cease-fire declared by A and C companies of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA, Assam Government decides to stop military operations against these two particular companies of the outfit. However, operations would continue against those elements indulging in violence. Assam Director General of Police R. N. Mathur said, "We welcome the cease-fire gesture by the 28th battalion and our stand has been to help anyone who is interested in peace. However, action will continue against those indulging in subversive activities."

  • June 24 : Militants of the A and C companies of the 28th Battalion of the ULFA announce a unilateral cease-fire. In a statement distributed at Chapakhowa in the Tinsukia district after a meeting of the militants at Amarpur in Sadiya, they said, "In the interest of a peace dialogue between ULFA and the government, we desire discussions to sort out the problems of Assam. To facilitate a congenial atmosphere for the talks, we are declaring a unilateral cease-fire from June 24, 2008, and we hope our gesture would result in reciprocation from the Assam government and the Government of India. Our decision of today follows a deep desire of the people of Assam for peace talks, and we would appeal to the ULFA Central Committee and the Government of India as well as the Government of Assam to initiate peace talks immediately." However, the B Company of the battalion, which has about 150 cadres, was not present at the meeting.

    Around 32 militants belonging to the ULFA, NSCN-IM and NSCN-K surrender before the Army at Mariani in the Jorhat district. Of the 32 surrendered militants, 26 belong to ULFA, four belonged to NSCN-IM and two are from NSCN-K.

    26 ULFA cadres surrendered before the Army at Tamulpur in the Baksa district.

    Two ULFA cadres surrender at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong and Chariduar in Sonitpur districts. The militants laid down two AK series rifles, four revolvers, 21 pistols, eight grenades besides huge quantity of assorted ammunition during their surrender.

  • June 23 : Assam Government asks Police to restrain from any unilateral action against the ULFA as that could hamper peace efforts with the outfit’s 28th battalion. A secret memo was reportedly been issued to all district superintendents of police a few days back to bolster the Government’s initiative to bring the outfit’s most potent unit over ground.

    The vice-president of the Bodo Santi Mancha (BSM), Lakshman Boro, is shot dead by former BLT cadres at his residence at Bagulamari village under Barbari police station in the Baksa district. The police recovered two empty cartridges from the spot.

  • June 22 : Assam Police arrest senior Peoples’ Consultative Group member Hiranya Saikia from his shop at Christian Basti in Guwahati on charges of his alleged link with ULFA. Additional Superintendent of Police Debojit Deori says a case was registered against Saikia under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

  • June 17 : Two ULFA militants are killed during an encounter with Army personnel at Bandarkhati Khamti village near Namchai in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh bordering Assam. One pistol, a revolver and an improvised explosive device weighing ten kilograms are recovered from them.

  • June 14: A hardcore ULFA militant, identified as ‘Lance Corporal’ Prabin Gogoi alias Dhanti was a member of the outfit’s 28th Battalion’s C company, was killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Saraipung under Digboi police station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • June 15: Four hardcore ULFA cadres of the 28th battalion were shot dead by the Army in an operation at Kanubari village of Charaideo subdivision of Sibsagar district. The slain militants have been identified as Badal Khargoria, Annie Bauri, Sumit Gohain and Ajit Gogoi.

    Army arrested three suspected ULFA linkmen from Bimalapur under Borhat Police Station. They have been identified as Bitupan Gogoi, Lakhyajit Gogoi and Lokesh Gogoi.

  • June 16: A surrendered ULFA member, Rana Gogoi, was arrested by Dibrugarh police in connection with a blackmailing and sex racket case.

  • June 17: A surrendered ULFA activist Tilok Gogoi alias Montu was arrested by the Police at Sapekhati in the Sibsagar district on the allegations of torturing a woman.

  • June 10: Three ULFA militants were shot dead in an encounter with the SFs at Borbam village under Tengakhat Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.

    A ULFA militant, identified as Aditya Naidu alias Tarun Pandav, of the Bravo Company of the 28th Battalion of the outfit was killed in an encounter with the Army at Timon tea estate under Kakotibari Police Station in the Sivasagar district. A woman ULFA cadre, identified as Karabi Gogoi, was also arrested during the encounter.

    Police arrested three suspected ULFA conduits from a house in the South Sarania area of Guwahati. They were identified as Abani Mahanta, Chandan Deka and Nayan Sarma.

  • June 9: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs at Palashguri in the Baksa district. The militants are identified as Dharya Deka, the ‘commander’ of ULFA’s 709 Battalion and another cadre, Rana Rabha.

  • June 8: Army personnel killed a ULFA militant and seized a huge consignment of arms during an operation at Teji Gaon village in the Dinjan area of Dibrugarh district.

    A ULFA linkman, Dhaneswar Deka alias Rinku Deka, was arrested from Karbi Anglong.

  • June 6: Two hardcore ULFA militants, identified as Hitesh Basumatary and Manoj Boro, were killed in an encounter with security forces at Jagannathpur under Tihu Police Station in the Nalbari district.

  • June 5: A ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with the Army at Jengonichowk under Kakopathar Police Station in the Tinsukia district.

  • June 3: Guwahati city Police arrested two ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, from the Inter State Bus Terminus under Gorchuk Police station in Guwahati.

  • June 2: Two ULFA militants, Jehirul Islam and Mujibur Rehman, surrendered before the security forces at Dhubri. The militants also deposited one AK 81-1 rifle, two Chinese grenades, 74 rounds of ammunition, three magazines and one ammunition pouch.

  • June 1: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Khardang Dalupara Rangsekgaon under Dudhnoi Police Station in the Goalpara district.

  • May 31: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead Khagen Chandra Deka, head of the Dolonghat village under Kalaigaon Police Station in the Udalguri district.

    A senior cadre of the 28th Battalion of the ULFA, Sanat Gogoi, surrendered before the security forces at Duliajan Army camp in the Dibrugarh district.

    A close associate of the ULFA chairman Arobindo Rajkhowa, idenitifed as Kamala Rajkonwar, was arrested by the Army at Charimuthia Konwar village near Lakwa in the Sibsagar district.

  • May 24: A hardcore ULFA militant, identified as Pulan Moran alias Phulen Chetia, was shot dead in an encounter with Army personnel at Bormusai in the Dirak area of Tinsukia district.

    A ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with the Army at Barahi Kacharigaon under Sonari Police Station in the Sivasagar district.

  • May 23: 12 ULFA militants surrendered before the security forces at Dinjan Army camp in the Dibrugarh district.

  • May 22: Suspected ULFA cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Dhaneswar Moran, at Nakathalguri village under Pengeri Police Station in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 19: Five persons were injured when suspected ULFA militants hurled a grenade at Rani Sati Mandir Path in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 18: A ULFA militant, identified as Hemanta Moran alias Utpal Neog, was killed in an encounter with the Army that took place at Bor-Dirak village under Kakopathar Police Station in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 14: Two ULFA hideouts were neutralised by the Army personnel in the Dibru Saikhowa reserve forest of Tinsukia district.

  • May 12: Two ULFA cadres were killed in an encounter with the Army at Leseri in the Baksa district.

    Police arrested an ULFA cadre, Geetanjali Devi, at Barama in the Nalbari district.

    An ULFA cadre, Sanjay Hazarika, was arrested by police from Tipling Tiniali in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 9: Two ULFA linkmen were arrested by the security forces at Amtuli under Fakiragram police station in the Kokrajhar district.

  • May 8: Two ULFA militants were killed by the Army personnel during an encounter at Kathalguri Hunjan village under Kakopathar police station in the Tinsukia district. Two 9-mm pistols are recovered from their possession.

    Seven ULFA cadres surrendered before the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Kamrup district R.C. Jain at Guwahati.

    Army neutralised a ULFA camp at Parbatpur town bordering Dilli Reserve Forest and Joypur Reserve Forest in the DIbrugarh district.

  • May 7: Army personnel arrested one ULFA linkman, Manoj Gogoi, from Maut Metimekhana village in the Dibrugarh district.

  • May 5: Telegraph reports that Nirmal Konwar, ‘second-in-command of the 27 battalion’ of the ULFA, confessed that the outfit is now carrying out only operation-specific recruitment, where a person is assigned a single task and has no links with the outfit thereafter. Konwar and his wife were arrested when they were undergoing treatment at a nursing home in Guwahati on May 1. "If the target is a politician, persons having access to the political field are being selected for the purpose. Training is provided on the use of pen pistols," he said. The report added that these recruits, when arrested, cannot provide any clues to the police because they are unaware of the identities of those who engaged them.

    Two ULFA militants belonging to the‘709 battalion’ were arrested by the Army personnel from Agomoni in the Dhubri district.

  • May 1: A trooper, identified as Saheb Singh, and one ULFA militant, Ajay Deka, are killed during an encounter at Dalanghat under Kalaigaon police station in the Darrang district. Two militants, including one injured in the encounter, managed to escape. A pistol, two magazines, 115 rounds of AK-47 rifle ammunition and mobile phones were recovered from the incident site.

    Two ULFA cadres, Indra Raja alias Numal Konwar and his wife Dharitri alias Damayanti, were arrested when they were undergoing treatment for malaria at a private hospital in the Guwahati city. They belonged to Baghara village in the Morigaon district and were trained in Bhutan.

    One ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, identified as Kalpajyoti Gogoi alias Kolamoni, is arrested by the SFs during a search operation near Sapekhati police station in the Sonari district.

  • April 30: A joint team of the Army and Assam Police neutralised a ULFA transit camp at Bangshijhora hill in the Dhubri district. An unnamed senior police officer said the camp was frequently used by the ULFA, NDFB and KLO militants, since they have some common areas of operation and used this vital transit camp not only for shelter but also for ammunition supply. Ten rounds of live ammunition of 12 bore pistols, seven rounds of 12 bore fired cases, eight live and five spent rounds of ammunition of AK-47 rifles, 18 live and seven spent rounds of .22 pistols, two blank detonators, 500 grams of explosive, one improvised explosive device (IED), wires, one 7.62-mm magazine of LMG and one rotating block of AK-56 were seized from the camp. A Global Positioning System device, a digital diary, two blank extortion notes signed by the ‘commandant of 709 battalion’ of the ULFA, Hira Saraniya, a Chinese camera, 20 kilograms of rice and one kilogram of Bengal gram were also recovered.

  • April 25: 27 ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrendered before General-officer-Commanding (GOC) of 21 Mountain Division, Major General Chander Prakash, and senior police officials at Tamulpur in the Baska district along with a large number of arms, ammunition, and extortion notes. Of the 27 cadres, 19 were from the ULFA ‘709 battalion’ while the rest of them belonged to the outfit’s 27 and 109 battalions. Some of these cadres were reportedly trained in the ULFA camps in Bhutan and Bangladesh. "This is the fourth surrender since October. It is fallout of the growing differences of opinion between the top leadership and cadres of Ulfa," Major General Prakash said. He added that due to concerted counter-insurgency operations targeting the ULFA, the strength of the outfit has come down to hundred odd members in Lower Assam. He informed the media at the headquarters of the Red Horns Division that "The Red Horns Division, since the last many years, is trying to put consistent pressure on the ULFA, especially in the Lower Assam area, and this has helped in restoring peace."

  • April 23: Assam Police arrested three youths when they were extorting in the guise of ULFA militants at Jorhat. They were identified as Montu Dutta, Babajan Ali and Biren Bora.

  • April 23: Sentinel reports that the ULFA has changed its extortion strategy. Instead of issuing written extortion notes, the outfit is now demanding a huge amount of cash from the businessmen of upper Assam by sending SMS through mobile phones. The report added that when the security forces were conducting counter-insurgency operations in upper Assam, cadres of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA led by self-styled ‘commander’ Bijay Chinese were sending SMS to a number of businessmen of upper Assam demanding amounts ranging from INR 10 00000 to INR 50 00000.

  • April 22 : The Sivasagar district administration announced that a surrendered ULFA leader, Tileswar Lahon, who was allegedly involved in the April 13 killing of one Dulen Baruah at Himpora village under Moranhat police station, would be arrested. The announcement was made by Sivasagar Deputy Commissioner N.M. Hussain at his office when thousands of students and villagers under the leadership of the All Assam Students Union protested.

  • April 18: The Union Government categorically rules out any possibility of talks with the ULFA on its main demand for sovereignty. The Union minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar, said, "We are all for talks but these have to be within the ambit of the Constitution. The unity and integrity of the country is not negotiable, let there be no ambiguity on this front."

  • April 16: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Radhika V. Selvi, informs the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) that inputs suggest that the ULFA has been using the territory of Bangladesh to procure and smuggle arms and explosives into India. The Minister was replying to a question on whether ULFA commanders have a vast network running seven hotels and six nursing homes, besides procuring weapons through the port city of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.

  • April 12: One ULFA militant was shot dead by the Army personnel who retaliated when eight suspected ULFA cadres opened fire on them at upper Dihing Reserve Forest in the Tinsukia district.

    Two ULFA cadres, Mandal Hasda alias Sadhu and Birbal Murmu, were arrested by the Army personnel at Gwmfela under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.

  • April 7: ULFA hoisted its flags at several places in the State on the occasion of its ‘raising day’.

  • April 6: One ULFA-linkman is arrested from Debottarhasdah village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district.

    One hardcore ULFA militant, Hemchandra Bora alias Udipta Hazarika, surrenders before the Assam Police in the Tinsukia district.

  • April 4: Sentinel reports that the ULFA has plans to execute a series of disruptive acts in the Dibrugarh district during its ‘foundation day’ on April 7. The report added that a group of 10 ULFA militants headed by hardcore militant Madhurjya Gohain are already moving around Tingkhong, Tengakhat, Khowang and Sasoni areas in the district and waiting for an appropriate situation to trigger bomb blasts and kill innocent persons. Militants have also reportedly intensified their extortion activities and have set a target of extorting around INR 50 00000 in the entire district.

  • March 31: 18 cadres belonging to various outfits, including 13 from the ULFA, three from the NDFB and one each from the Khaplang and Isak-Muivah factions of the NSCN, surrenders before Major General Jatinder Singh, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Mountain Division at Dinjan Military Station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • March 28: An ULFA cadre, Partha alias Rakta Kachari, surrenders before the Dibrugarh district administration and deposited a hand grenade at the time of surrender.

  • March 26: A joint team of Assam Police and the Army arrested a ULFA militant, Pramulya Boruah, from Neo Deoghariya village under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. The arrested cadre reportedly is an IED expert of the outfit.

    A businessman, Raju Jain, is shot dead and his son Narendra Jain sustains injuries when suspected ULFA militants open fire on them at Mohkhuti under Nimuguri police station in the Sibasagar district.

    One ULFA militant, Chanchal Dangoria, is arrested during a search operation at Matiakata area in the Tinsukia district. He was reportedly asked to survey probable sites for planting improvised explosive devices in the upper Assam districts of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh.

  • March 25: One person, Subhrajit Sonowal, was arrested while he along with two of his accomplices was trying to extort money, in the name of the ULFA, from one Bhola Lahon, a school teacher, at Bekadolong under Sonari police station. Two others, however, managed to escape. One motorbike was recovered from him.

  • March 23: One ULFA militant, Binoy Baishya, who was earlier arrested from Sualkuchi in the Kamrup district, confessed during his interrogation on that a cycle that was recovered from him was converted into a bomb. Following his confession, a team of explosive experts tore open the cycle on March 24 and found that the seat of the cycle can be opened easily and high power explosives like TNT and TETN were fitted into the hollow pipes of the cycle. One bomb and a programmable time device were also recovered from him.

  • March 20: One suspected ULFA militant, Manindra Rai,, was killed in a gunfight with a team of police and army personnel at Gouripur in Dhubri district.

  • March 17: One ULFA militant involved in several bomb blasts in the Tinsukia district was killed in an encounter with the police at Dirakbokhai village in the Dibrugarh district. Two other militants, however, escaped.

    One suspected ULFA militant, Satyajit Chetia, was seriously injured when one of the bombs being carried by him exploded in the Sibsagar district.

  • March 15: SFs killed two militants, suspected to be either from the ULFA or the NDBF, during an exchange of fire at Silikhaguri Sapori under Narayanpur police station in the North Lakhimpur district. An injured militant escaped with his AK-47 rifle, while a pistol with five rounds of ammunition and a revolver with four rounds were recovered from the slain militants.

    Six hardcore ULFA militants surrendered and laid down their arms at a formal ceremony at the Kamrup Deputy Commissioner’s office. The militants were involved in many operations, including bomb blasts, in and around Guwahati besides recruitment drives in lower Assam. The militants said that they were getting increasingly disillusioned with the manner of functioning of the outfit, especially their top leaders, which made them quit it and return to the mainstream.

    Four persons were killed and more than 50 others, including some women and children, were injured in a grenade blast at Jonai in the Dhemaji district. According to official sources, about 15,000 people gathered in a field near the Jonai circuit house to celebrate Ali-Aye-Ligang, a festival of the Mising community, when suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade at the crowd. The deceased were identified as Bina Pegu, Kabita Sonowal, Sahadhan Ali and Someswar Sutradhar. However, the ULFA has denied its involvement in the attack.

  • March 13: Army shot dead a ULFA militant, Rupa Moran, after he lobbed a grenade at the troops at Hatibandha village under Tengakhat Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • March 10: Three ULFA militants were arrested during a search operation at an unspecified place.

    Two ULFA militants, 'sergeant major' Amrit Ballav alias Mizo and 'corporal' Bikram Hazarika alias Uttam Hazarika, surrendered along with arms and ammunition before the Golaghat district administration.

  • March 9: An ULFA militant, Suryamohan Rai, and a linkman, Shafiul Rahman, were arrested by the security forces from Golokgunj area of Dhubri district along with a pistol and INR 10,000.

  • March 9: Four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead by the ULFA militants near Udalguri tea estate between Chabua and Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district.

  • March 5: One person was injured when ULFA militants exploded a bomb near the District Magistrate's office at Lakhimpur.

  • March 4: Two ULFA militants, identified as Tapan Baruah alias Arun Baruah and Parikshit Chettry, were shot dead by the Assam Police during an encounter at Thanubam village under Barbaruah police station in the Dibrugarh district. Two pistols, some ammunition, explosives, three cell phones and some documents were recovered from the encounter site.

  • March 3: Three suspected ULFA linkmen, Abdus Sattar, Atowar Rahman and Hazrat Ali, were arrested by the Assam Police during a search operation at Damalkona village in the Dhubri district. One motorcycle was recovered from the residence of Abdus who was suspected to have used that for carrying ULFA cadres.

  • February 28: Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta, said that the Centre is not ready to hold any talks with the ULFA on the issue of "sovereignty of Asom". Gupta also said, "The ULFA has to give up violence before holding peace talks with the Centre, and there will be no mediators in the peace process. The Government is ready for only direct talks with the ULFA."

  • February 27: One person, identified as Ajit Ghosh, was killed and 14 others were injured in an IED blast by suspected ULFA militants at Borgolla Chariali near Tezpur Sadar police station in the Sonitpur district.

  • February 23: Police arrested a suspected ULFA linkman, Judhajit Das, from Barpeta.

  • February 21: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead a school teacher, Pradip Hazarika, at Kakopathar Harumechai village in the Tinsukia district. They also assaulted his neighbour, Jiten Changmai, before leaving the place. The same group also killed one Bhoyen Moran, a resident of the adjoining Bormechai village.

  • February 16: Four ULFA militants were killed in a joint operation by the Army and police in the Sibsagar district.

  • February 14: Police seized a boat that the ULFA had been using to ferry arms and its cadres to Guwahati city. Police also arrested seven persons including the boat driver, and seized 10-kgs of RDX from the boat at Goroimari in the Kamrup district, about 100-km from Guwahati.

  • February 12: A ULFA militant, Champak Sharma, suspected to have been involved in the abduction of FCI official P.C. Ram was arrested at Guwahati. Police also recovered an M20 pistol, ammunition, five kg of RDX and bomb-making materials from his rented house.

  • February 11: Police arrested a ULFA linkman, Abhinash Gogoi, from Panichokua area under Pulibor Police Station in the Jorhat district.

    The Commander of the 27th battalion of ULFA, Keshav Hazarika, Lieutenant Biraj Phukan and sergeant major Kumud Bordoloi, surrendered along with several others at Dinjan army base. Wife of Keshav Hazarika, Meenakshi Hazarika, reportedly surrendered in absentia.

  • February 10: Assam Police foiled a plan of the ULFA to hijack a plane from Guwahati airport to Pakistan and arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in the conspiracy. ULFA’s 709th battalion’s Manoj Tamuly alias Randip Baruah alias Kamal Das alias Haloi alias Pathak and his fiancee Dharitri Sarma, also an ULFA militant, were arrested from Panjabari Bagorbori area of Guwahati. During interrogation, Manoj confessed that the ULFA had planned to hijack a plane from Borjhar and to take it to Pakistan. Based on his confession, a prominent advocate, Nekibur Zaman, was also arrested. The house of a human rights activist, Lachit Bardoloi, was raided while a television journalist Pradeep Gogoi was arrested from Tinsukia.

  • February 6: Three persons were arrested by the police on February 6 for allegedly demanding money from an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation employee by posing themselves as ULFA militants. The trio, arrested from Geleky area in the Sivasagar district, was allegedly demanding INR 250000.

  • January 30: A hardcore ULFA militant and chief instructor of the outfit's 709 battalion, 'sergeant' Bubul Das alias Himangshu Rava alias Ritu Basumatary, surrendered before the police in the Baksa district.

  • January 27: Two ULFA militants and a Captain of the Gorkha Regiment of the Indian Army were killed in an encounter at Borpathar Rongagora under Doomdooma Police Station in the Tinsukia District. Acting on a tip-off that a group of ULFA cadres were taking shelter there, the Army personnel launched an operation. Captain S. K. Choudhury and two militants, identified as Tutu Maran alias Pallab Baruah and Jitul Dohutia alias Chandan, were killed in the gun battle. One AK-56 rifle, two magazines, more than 100 live bullets, one mobile phone and an IED were recovered from the incident site.

  • January 25: Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with the army at the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest in Tinsukia. One of the slain militant was identified as Dhajiya Gogoi.

  • January 24: 38 ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrendered before the security forces at Tamulpur in the Baksa district. They also deposited 27 pistols, 18 grenades, 22 detonators, 30 kg of explosives and 150 live ammunition of AK-47 assault rifle.

  • January 22: Security forces shot dead a militant of the ULFA at Raidang village under Digboi Police Station. A pistol and four live cartridges were recovered from his possession.

    Police arrested three ULFA linkmen, identified as Kishor Roy, Gautam Barman and Uttam Baruah, from the Boitamari area of the Bongaigaon district on an unspecified date allegedly for maintaining links with a top ULFA militant Pulak Bharali. The linkmen confessed that they were assigned to trigger violence on or before Republic Day (January 26) in the district.

  • January 20: Guwahati city police arrested two hardcore ULFA cadres from Golaghat district for their alleged involvement in a host of subversive activities in the city recently. They were identified as, Abhijit Dutta and Pradeep Kurmi, and reportedly masterminded the car bomb blast at Pan Bazaar in Guwahati in 2007.

    In Tinsukia district, security forces arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Lambeswar Khotowal, from Borhapjan and another cadre, Daman Moran, from Borgaon. Security forces also recovered one revolver, 16 round of live bullet and few ULFA extortion notes from the militants.

    An ‘area commander’ of the ULFA, identified as Madan Koch, was shot dead by security personnel when they neutralised a hideout at Katalbari near Garobadha in the West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. Two packets of RDX, a pistol with two magazines and some ammunition were recovered from the incident site.

    Guwahati city police arrested two hardcore ULFA cadres from Golaghat district for their alleged involvement in a host of subversive activities in the city recently. They were identified as, Abhijit Dutta and Pradeep Kurmi, and reportedly masterminded the car bomb blast at Pan Bazaar in Guwahati in 2007.

    In Tinsukia district, security forces arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Lambeswar Khotowal, from Borhapjan and another cadre, Daman Moran, from Borgaon. Security forces also recovered one revolver, 16 round of live bullet and few ULFA extortion notes from the militants.

    According to intelligence reports, the ULFA has managed to sneak in a number of programmable time device switches into Assam through Bangladesh in the recent times. Police said that the ULFA has been bringing in weapons and explosives through Bangladesh by taking advantage of the porous international border and the 109 battalion of the outfit has been entrusted with the task of transhipment of weapons. The members of the battalion are based mainly in Garo hills of Meghalaya and in Goalpara district for the transhipment of weapons.

  • January 18: A ULFA cadre, identified as Dilip Kalita, was shot dead in a joint operation by the Army and police in the Konwarpur area of Sivasagar district. Three grenades and some improvised explosive devices were recovered from the spot.

    Intelligence reports have said that a huge consignment of explosives and dozens of small arms has been transshipped into Assam by the ULFA from Bangladesh a week back and the consignment has reportedly been received by ULFA ‘commander’ of lower Assam, Hira Sarania, from the courier from Bangladesh.

    Intelligence reports mentioned that 40 trained ULFA cadres had already sneaked into the State from Bangladesh to carry out subversive activities ahead of the Republic Day (January 26). They could target the public and crowded places, especially in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia.

  • January 16: A ULFA militant was killed in a gunfight with the Army at Kumari Gaon under Mahadevpur police station in Arunachal Pradesh along the Assam border.

    Security forces arrested a hardcore ULFA militant, identified as Damodar Das of Karmipora village in the Darrang district. The militant confessed about the plan of ULFA to plant improvised explosive devices in several places of the district on the eve of Republic Day (January 26) and of his involvement in an extortion drive in the district. Security forces also recovered five crude bombs, three detonators, two mobile phones and two SIM cards from his possession.

  • January 13: One ULFA militant, identified as Bitupan Moran, was arrested from Rajgarh tea estate in the Tinsukia district. One kilogram of explosives, including six live rounds of AK 56 and 15 rounds of assorted ammunition, were recovered from him.

    At least 17 persons, including six security force personnel, were injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered a powerful grenade explosion in front of the Paltan Bazaar police station near Guwahati railway station.

  • January 12: Four railway workers were injured when suspected ULFA militants lobbed grenades on them at Rongsal in the Dibrugarh district.

  • January 11: Police arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Arjun Deka, in the Baksa district and seized five French made timer devices.

    Security forces arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Raju Chetri alias Moni Subba, and a linkman, identified as Diganta Hazarika, near Tingali Bam Tea Estate under Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district. Some leaflets of the outfit were recovered from their possession.

  • January 10: Security forces killed a ULFA militant, identified as Corporal Puwali Dowerah alias Hiren Dowerah, in an encounter at Ahukhat village under Makum police station in the Tinsukia district. The security forces also recovered one .32 pistol, one magazine with two live rounds and three bicycles at the site of the encounter.

  • January 9: Two militants of the ULFA, including a woman, surrendered before the police in Dibrugarh. The surrendered ULFA cadres were identified as Bhaimon Changmai alias Nabin Dutta and Bina Payeng alias Rimi Bora. They also deposited a 9 mm pistol along with magazines and six live rounds of ammunition.

  • January 7: An Assamese poet, Santanu Sarma, was arrested at Malikuchi in Nalbari town on charges of writing seditious material for the ULFA and mobilising opinion against counter-insurgency operations.

  • January 6: One person, identified as Abdul Rehman Bepari, was injured when a bomb planted by suspected ULFA militants in his garage exploded at New Iddgah Colony in Dhubri town.

  • January 5: ULFA ‘sergeant’ Swapna Baruah alias Swapna Moran was killed in an encounter with the army at Dirak Rongpuri village of Tinsukia district.

    Security forces arrested two ULFA militants, Nikhil Bhuyan and Jadab Saikia, from Naginimora in the Sivasagar district. An unspecified quantity of RDX, INR 11,000 in cash and incriminating documents were recovered from them.

    Seven ULFA and three NSCN-IM cadres surrendered at an army camp in the Tinsukia district. They deposited two 9mm pistols, a .22 pistol, a revolver, four grenades and ammunition of assorted weapons.

  • January 3: One surrendered ULFA cadre and a Bharatiya Janata Party activist, identified as Jatin Lahkar, was shot at by two suspected ULFA militants at Datara under Ghograpar police station in the Nalbari district.

2007

  • December 31: 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.

    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.

  • 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.

    An encounter between police personnel and the ULFA militants is reported at Philobari in the Tinsukia district. Police suspect the outfit was planning to blow off a bridge over the Dibru.

    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. Two pistols, seven rounds of ammunition and four magazines are recovered from their possession.

  • 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 28: At least 21 residents of Guwahati city are arrested and later remanded to police custody for playing varied roles in ULFA’s network of subversion. "We rounded up 25 people in the past two days, of whom 22 were arrested on specific charges. The 21 people arrested today were remanded in police custody," an unnamed police officer engaged in the crackdown said.

  • December 27: An encounter between army personnel and the ULFA militants occurs in the Dangori reserve forest area of Tinsukia district. However, the militants manage to escaped from the incident site.

    Four ULFA cadres, Akur Rabha, Neel Sagar Rabha, Ajen Marak and Uday Ghosh, were arrested with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition at Balaikhawar and Hatisila villages near Lakhipur. One AK-81 rifle, three magazines with 65 rounds of ammunition, one 9-mm Italian pistol with five rounds of ammunition, one crude bomb weighing one kilogram and fake currency worth INR 4000 were recovered from them.

  • December 25: One ULFA cadre is killed during an encounter with the Army in Sivasagar district.

  • December 20: Four militants belonging to the’ 709 battalion’ of the ULFA outfit surrendered 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 pistol with two magazines and 20 rounds of live ammunition, few grenades, four explosive fitted with programmable timer devices at the time of surrender.

  • December 19: The Tinsukia District police arrested Nagen Moran, a ULFA cadre and a close associate of Jiten Dutta, leader of the ‘28 Battalion’ of the ULFA, from Margherita. During interrogation, Moran confesses before the police that he was involved in the car bomb blast that occurred at Beng Phukuri area in Tinsukia on November 25. On the basis of his confession, police arrested a doctor, Rupai Bora, who owns the Bora Nursing Home at Doomdooma. Bora allegedly provided medical help to the injured ULFA cadres and has also visited the militants’ camp at Lathau in Arunachal Pradesh.

    Intelligence sources stated 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. The commander of the ‘Charlie Company of the outfit’s 28 Battalion’, Jiten Dutta, recently warned all Congress Party candidates, especially those who had deserted the party in the wake of the quit Congress notice issued by the outfit in February, but had rejoined the party ahead of the panchayat polls and are contesting the elections — of dire consequences. A five-member group led by self-styled ‘sergeant major’ from the ‘Alpha Company of the 28 battalion’, Tete Bezbaruah, is reportedly operating in the Mohong, Dirak and Pengeri areas of Tinsukia district.

    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 13: Two hardcore ULFA cadres, identified as Dusmanta Nath and Ujin Rabha, surrendered before the security forces at Dariduri in the Goalpara district.

  • December 9: Police arrested four ULFA militants from different parts of the Guwahati city.

  • December 7: One unidentified ULFA agent, who bailed out militants by providing false documents to courts, was arrested by the Army from Binoy Gutia village under Borboree police station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • December 5: Security forces came under attack from the ULFA when five militants going along with a marriage party fired at them at Namhulung under Tengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. Security forces opted not to retaliate the firing but when they moved towards the marriage party, the militants fled towards the Doomdooma reserve forest.

    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 3: A surrendered ULFA cadre, identified as Bogadhar Gogoi, was killed by two ULFA militants on 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 2: 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.

    Suspected cadres of the ULFA lobbed a grenade at a garments shop near Kathiatoli in the Nagaon district injuring the shop owner and his son, besides another person who was there at the time of the blast.

  • December 30: Guwahati city police arrested a ULFA cadre, identified as Jitu Barman a.k.a. Prahlad Barman of Baksa district, from the city’s Ganesh Nagar area under Basista police station.

  • November 29: Two ULFA militants, identified as Gautam Das and Tiken Das, surrendered in a function held at Hajo military camp in Rangiya. They also laid down a pistol, 10 live cartridges AK-47 rifle.

  • 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 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. Five minutes before the explosion, a grenade was lobbed by unidentified assailants without causing any causality.

  • 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 23: Army personnel in a counter insurgency operation shot dead one ‘sergeant major’ of the ULFA, Lambu Moran alias Suren Moran, at Manabhum Reserve Forest under Dayon police station in the Lohit district. One pistol, four live rounds of ammunition and six detonators were recovered from the slain militant. Lambu hailed from Mohong village under Pengeree police station in the Tinsukia district of Assam.

  • Security forces arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Mohan Rabha, along with a single-barrel gun and some fake currency notes from Makri in the Goalpara district. His confessional statement led to the arrest of one ULFA financier, identified as Tarun Marak alias Dekson, from Tikrikilla in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. Dekson is reportedly involved in carrying a huge amount of money from Bangladesh to Meghalaya and Assam on behalf of the group.

  • November 22: Seventeen 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 ULFA militants were identified as Kundil alias Biju, Kalyani Baruah alias Pratima Baruah, Teet Gohain alias Ratan Tamuli, Mintu Gogoi alias Pratim Dohotia, Pallabi Dihingia alias Maya, Jyoti Dutta alias Ankita, Bharat Sonowal, Kalshad Rabha alias Ratul Rabha, Narayan Rabha alias Amit Rabha, Bishnu Rabha, Moina Moran, Gulab Baruah alias Deep Baruah, Alpana Sonowal alias Sangita Sonowal, Pankaj Bora alias Dhan Bora and Kukheswar Saikia. The two cadres of the DHD and KLNLF were identified as Kanak Bora alias Ladu Baruah and Mujori Phangso alias Rukasen Phangso. 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.

  • 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.

  • An encounter between the ULFA and Army personnel was reported at Solatiniali under Charaideo police station in the Sivasagar district. Five ULFA militants engaged in the encounter fled leaving the driver and the vehicle they were travelling in. The driver was reportedly arrested.

  • 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 18: Suspected ULFA cadres shot dead three surrendered ULFA leaders, identified as Srimanta Chetia alias Bijoy Chinese, Prahlad Maran and Kamal Kandha, at Natun Dallang in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • 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 16: Security forces 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.

  • One self-styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Tulon Deori alias Prakash Deori, was arrested 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.

  • Police personnel engaged in gun battle with the ULFA militants at Dhuansola area under Majuli subdivision in the Jorhat district. However, no casualties are reported.

  • November 13: Security forces shot dead one ULFA militant, Hemo Gogoi alias Chintu Borgohain of Majuli, at Ajanti Gaon Ghat in the Sivasagar district. Two Chinese grenades, some detonators and Improvised Explosive Devices were recovered from the slain militant.

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

  • November 12: The ULFA military spokesman, Raju Baruah, revealed that two ULFA cadres were killed and seven others are abducted in the Mon district of Nagaland on November 11 by the NSCN-IM militants. Baruah demanded that the NSCN-IM release the ULFA cadres within three days.

  • November 11: One ULFA cadre, identified as Mridul Moran, is killed in an encounter with the NSCN-IM at a petrol pump in Tizit. One cadre of the NSCN-IM, identified as, S M Konyak, was also killed during the clashes. Two civilians were injured in the incident. Sources added that one ULFA militant was abducted by the NSCN-IM.

  • November 10: One self-styled ‘corporal’ of the 28th battalion of the ULFA, Utpal Bora, is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Mahadevpur area in the Lohit district.. One 9-mm pistol and four rounds of ammunition are recovered from his possession.

  • November 9: A top-ranking ULFA militant, identified as 'sergeant major' of the outfit’s '109 battalion' Ratul Rabha, is arrested during a joint operation by the army and police from Oidoba village near the Meghalaya-Assam border in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district. Superintendent of Police JFK Marak told that three kilograms of RDX was recovered from the militant.

  • November 7: The Army arrested two ULFA militants, Muzibur Rahman and Mahammed Munna, from Phalimari under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district. Three hand-made pistols and live cartridges are recovered from their possession.

    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 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 1: 68 militants, including 66 ULFA and two Adivasi National Liberation Army cadres, surrendered to the security forces in a surrender ceremony at the firing range of the 4 Assam police Battalion Headquarters at Kahilipara in the Guwahati city. The surrendered ULFA cadres comprised four ‘sergeant majors’ and six ‘sergeants’, including Bipul Neog alias Ujjal Gohain. Four women, including ‘sergeant major’ Tulshi Rabha alias Malati Santosh, are among the surrendered cadres. Eight AK-56 rifles, five pistols, ten revolvers, a single-shot pistol, 11 No. 36 grenades, 16 Chinese grenades, eight AK-56 magazines, 145 rounds of AK-series ammunition, 55 rounds of 9-mm ammunition, four rounds of .22 ammunition, an RT set, three electronic detonators, five No. 36 grenade detonators, three gelatine sticks, five kg RDX, a packet of Cordex wire, an RPG cell and five PTD switch are deposited by the cadres.

  • October 29: Two ULFA cadres, Nitul Sonowal and Muleswar Sonowal, are killed in an encounter with the security forces at Rangoli village in the Lohit district. Both the slain militants hail from the Dibrugarh district in Assam.

  • October 28: One ‘sergeant major’ of ‘B’ company of the 28th battalion of the ULFA, Anirban Basu alias Ananta Duarah, is shot dead by the security forces in an encounter at Mahmora Bhalukonigaon under Kakotibari police station in the Sivasagar district. One grenade and a 9-mm pistol are recovered from his possession. Sources revealed that the deceased is responsible for extortion in the Sonari, Moran and Sivasagar areas.

  • October 26: Police personnel arrested one ULFA cadre, Amulya Das, from Fancy Bazzar area in the Guwahati city. Das had been working at a private business farm and hails from Bijulighat in the Nalbari district.

  • October 24: An encounter between the ULFA militants and the troops is reported under Tangeri police station in the Tinsukia district. Two suspected ULFA cadres are injured in the encounter. One SLR and two bags containing improvised explosive device materials are also recovered from the incident site.

  • October 23: Thirty-one 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) are deposited by the militants.

    The ULFA has reportedly shifted several of its leaders from upper Assam to the outfit’s hideouts in Myanmar to prevent their surrender. A report indicated that Amrit Dutta, a key accused in the Sanjoy Ghose murder case, and Amritballav Goswami, a bomb expert from Golaghat district, are among those who are being kept in confinement at hideouts in Myanmar.

  • October 22: 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. They were working under the instruction of Hira Sarania, ‘commander of ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA. "The duo used to identify potential targets for extortion and then serve demand notes, signed by Hira Sarania. Their targets included businessmen, professionals such as doctors and engineers, as well as government officials. The accused have confessed to serving ransom demands to several persons in the city," an unnamed police officer said. "Choudhury is suspected to have been involved in some recent bomb blasts here. He is also being interrogated for identifying the explosives suspected to have been stockpiled by ULFA in the city," the source added.

  • October 22: ULFA’s 28th 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. Intelligence sources revealed that Jiten Dutta, who took over charge of 28th battalion following surrender of Pranjal Saikia and Ujjal Gohain, has entrusted Dadul Bora and Luchi Neog of ‘C’ company to collect the amount from the businessmen before the Deepawali festival.

  • October 19: Security forces arrested one ULFA cadre of the 28th battalion, Dhajen Gogoi alias Ranjan Gogoi, from Manbhum Reserve Forest in the Lohit district.

  • October 18: SFs arrested two suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants, Siddi Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar, from Lohajani village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district on charges of extortion from a school teacher. An extortion note demanding INR 1 lakh was issued to a school teacher, Ronjit Bhakat, in the name of the ULFA.

  • October 16: One senior cadre of the 28th battalion of the ULFA, Pranjal Saikia alias Hiren Hazarika, surrendered to the security forces at Teju in the Lohit district. Saikia hails from Doomdooma in the Tinsukia district of Assam and had joined the outfit in 1990.

    One ULFA cadre, Arun Deka alias Amarendra, surrendered before the Morigaon district administration.

  • October 13: An encounter between Army personnel aided by a group of surrendered ULFA cadres and ULFA militants is reported from Mahmora Tiloichuk village under Charaideo sub-division in the Sivasagar district. The encounter ensued following information received by the Army that ULFA militants are camping in the house of one Phani Gogoi. However, the militants managed to escape from the encounter site.

  • October 8: Security forces in an encounter killed self-styled ‘sergeant’ of the ULFA, Rajiv Saikia alias Raheswar Deka Baruah, at Lukili village under Borhat police station in the Sivasagar district. One AK-56 rifle, three magazines, a 9-mm pistol, three pistol magazines, a grenade, three mobile sets and some incriminating documents are recovered from the incident site. One woman cadre of the outfit, identified as Mamu alias Satyama Bailung alias Rekha Bailung, was arrested from the same place.

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

    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 6: 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. Police said the two militants had taken shelter in the house of a person, Oben Rabha. Some explosives, a satellite phone, a 9 mm pistol, a revolver, six rounds of cartridges, four mobile phones, a mobile charger, letter pads, telephone diaries and cash are recovered from the slain militants.

  • 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. While another militant manages to escape, one AK-47 rifle, one 9-mm pistol, two magazines of AK-47 rifle and two hand grenades are recovered from the encounter site.

    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.

  • October 4: A grenade is exploded by the ULFA militants targeting Itachali police outpost in the Nagaon district. While two vehicles were damaged, no one is injured in the blast.

    Security forces arrested three suspected militants of the ULFA, 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 2: The ULFA denies a claim made by B. S. Jaiswal, General Officer Commanding-in-Charge of 4 Corps, that the outfit has links with Islamist outfits, including the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI). In an editorial in its mouthpiece Freedom, the ULFA accused the Army of launching a false propaganda "only to confuse the people."

  • 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. Two accomplices of the killed ULFA militant, identified as a ULFA conduit Monikanta Sare and a surrendered militant Ganesh Pegu, are wounded.

    Two ULFA linkmen are arrested by the Army personnel from Jhagrarpar in the Dhubri district. One pistol and some blank notepads of the outfit are recovered from them.

    Seven ULFA militants, including a woman cadre, surrender before the Army authorities at Laipuli in the Tinsukia 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 (Law and Order), 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 were killed and 21 others wounded in another blast triggered by the ULFA at Tinsukia town.

    One 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. B.C. Sarmah, chairman of the Assam Gas Company Limited, said the damage will disrupt gas distribution throughout upper Assam. The pipeline carries crude and natural gas from the oilfields of Dikom and Tengakhat to Duliajan.

    One blast is triggered by the ULFA targeting another 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.

  • September 27: Two Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants surrender before the security forces at Golaghat. Prakash Timung a.k.a. Englong Timung and Moshe Finger a.k.a. Ancbung surrender along with two pistols. They have later told that the KLNLF had launched operations along with the ULFA to kill Hindi-speaking people in Karbi Anglong, adding that more than 20 ULFA militants are co-ordinating with the KLNLF to unleash violence.

  • September 25: An unidentified ULFA militant is shot dead by Army personnel during a counter-insurgency operation at Manabhum reserve forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. One 7.62 mm self-loading rifle along with 21 rounds of ammunition is recovered from the slain militant.

  • 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. One grenade, one-and-a-half kg of RDX and some documents were deposited by the cadre. Duara hails from Ulutoli village in Jalukonibari area of Titabor subdivision in the Jorhat district.

    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 19: Ranu Das alias Gita Gogoi, wife of the Myanmar-based ULFA cadre, Dipen Das, along with her 14-month-old child, is arrested from Naharlagun in the Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh. Several compact discs and incriminating documents are recovered from the house in capital Itanagar, where she was staying. The house was rented by Purabi, wife of Prabal Neog, who was arrested from Tezpur town in Assam on September 17.

  • September 17: 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 was traveling with his wife from Arunachal Pradesh. 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. Neog, son of Haladhar Bora of Makum-Tarajan in the Tinsukia district, joined the ULFA in 1991. Earlier, he was the ‘vice-president’ of Tinsukia district committee of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Parishad, an influential youth organization in the state.

  • 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 13: A person, Imdad Ul Haque, is arrested by Assam Police from Jalukbari area in the Guwahati city, for his involvement in extortion in the name of the ULFA outfit.

  • September 11: The dead body of an unidentified ULFA cadre of the 28th battalion is recovered from the Manabhum reserve forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Sources indicated that the militant had died of malaria.

  • 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.

    Security forces arrested one woman ULFA cadre, Momi Kochari alias Juri Sonowal, from Tiphung Ghat under Duliajan police station in the Dibrugarh district. Juri was associated with the ULFA for the last six years. One mobile phone and a pistol were recovered from her possession. Another woman ULFA cadre, identified as Momi Gogoi, was arrested from the Kakopathar area in Tinsukia district. Reports revealed that Momi joined ULFA two years ago and received arms training at Manabhum Reserve Forest in the State of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • 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 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.

  • September 6: Fourteen cadres belonging to the 28th and 709th battalions of the ULFA surrendered before the Inspector General of Police in Guwahati. They were identified as Dilip Kumar Sarmah - ‘second lieutenant’ of 709th battalion, Robin Bejboruah and Lakshadhar Kalita - ‘sergeant major’ of 709th battalion, Manish Gogoi and Syamata Gogoi ‘corporal’ of 28th battalion, Dulal Bora, Rupam Gogoi, Chintu Gogoi, Anil Gogoi, Subhash Bora, Tapa Bora and Mitul Sandique of the 28th battallion, Jayanta Roy and Rajani Kalita of 709th battalion. One AK 47 rifle, three 9-mm pistols, a 0.22 rifle, two hand-made revolvers, a factory-made pistol, five grenades, two IEDs, four kg TNT, two electronic detonators, four non-electronic detonators, 18 rounds of ammunition of AK-47 rifle, six rounds of ammunition of 9-mm pistol and seven rounds of ammunition of 0.22 rifle are deposited by them.

    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 5: Kamaleswar Das and his accomplice Joon Jyoti Sarma, the ULFA cadres who are allegedly involved in the Guwahati blast of September 1, confessed to having kept the LPG cylinder in the vehicle in which the bomb was strapped.

    Kamaleswar Das, who is involved in the September 1 bomb blast triggered by the ULFA at Bamunimaidam in Guwahati city, is arrested from Kumarikata in the Nalbari district. The report added that his accomplice, Joon Jyoti Sarma, surrendered at Dispur police station. Both of them confessed of planting the bomb in a vehicle with the help of an ULFA militant, Dhiren Das, who operates under two other militants, Dipak Das and Bhaiti. Dhiren is a cadre of the 709 Battalion of the ULFA. Police discovered during the investigation that the operation was masterminded by another ULFA militant, Akash Thapa alias Saranga Patowary.

  • September 3: Guwahati police reportedly identified one Kamaneshwar Das as the main culprit of the ULFA-triggered Bamunimaidam bomb blast of September 1 in the Guwahati city. Das had hired the three-wheeler that is used in the blast around 15 days before and fitted it with the bomb at an unspecified location in the Nalbari district.

  • September 2: Police personnel arrested three persons, Champak Barman, Biswajeet Deka and Bhagawan Barman, from the Guwahati city in connection with the ULFA-triggered Bamunimaidam bomb blast on September 1. Bhagawan Barman is the owner of the van in which the IED was planted while the other two are his associates.

  • September 1: One person is killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a suspected ULFA-triggered explosion in the Bamunimaidan locality in Guwahati. The victim was identified as Ramlal Das, a cobbler from Begusarai district in Bihar. Police said a bomb kept in a three-wheeler went off at 11.45 am at the Railway Colony market of Bamunimaidan, a busy commercial area, leading to the explosion of three gas cylinders in the shops nearby.

    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.

    SFs arrested one ULFA militant, Atul Rai alias Satyajit Barman, along with one hand grenade, two detonators and some fuse wires from Panchapur Rabhapara area under Bongaigaon police station in the Bongaigaon district.

  • 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 27th 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.

  • August 30: SFs in an encounter at Motir Patti village under Gauripur police station in the Dhubri district killed Tapan Rai, a bomb expert of the ULFA. Rai is reportedly involved in several bomb blasts in the Guwahati city. One 9-mm pistol, four live cartridges and six empty cartridges are recovered from the incident site. However, some other ULFA cadres managed to escape from the incident site.

    SFs arrested two ULFA cadres, Kishor Roy and Uttam Chaudhury, from their houses at Abhayapuri in the Bongaigaon district.

  • August 28: One ‘commander’ of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, Champak Sarma alias Ranjan, was killed by SFs in an encounter at Boragog village in the Kamrup district. While one SF personnel was wounded during the exchange of fire, one militant managed to escape from the incident site. A villager, Rupeshwar Deka, along with his family members was arrested for giving shelter to Ranjan and one of his accomplices in their residence. An AK-56 rifle, two grenades, two magazines, two mobile handsets, 37 live bullets, INR 4500 and extortion pads signed by Heera Sarania, ‘commandant’ of the 709 battalion of the ULFA, are recovered from the encounter site. Ranjan is reportedly involved in the April 17-abduction of P.C. Ram, the Director of the Food Corporation of India’s Northeast office, from Guwahati.

  • 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. Arms and explosives, including one Chinese-make grenade, an Italian 9-mm pistol, two programmable devices, three detonators, a tape recorder and eight rounds of ammunition, are recovered from them.

    Five ULFA cadres surrendered at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Golaghat district. They were 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.

  • August 25: Six suspected ULFA linkmen are arrested by SF personnel from Lahowal in the Dibrugarh district. Another ULFA linkman, Rinku Das, is arrested from Disangmukh village in the Sivsagar district. He was involved in a bomb blast, and confessed to be in direct communication with militant Ankur Shyam, belonging to the 'B company' of the ULFA's '28th battalion'. A grenade and some documents indicating his involvement in the blast in Sivsagar town in the first week of August 2007 are recovered from Das.

  • 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 23: 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. An AK-56 rifle and some documents relating to the outfit are recovered from possession of the slain militant.

  • August 23: Police confirm that a group of eight ULFA militants, including two women cadres, led by Randhir Rava and Akash Thapa, had entered the Dhubri district prior to Independence Day and were last reported to be moving in the area.

  • 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. According to him: "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."

  • 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.

  • August 20: A ULFA militant, Ananta Gogoi, is assaulted by local people of Chakma Basti near Chowkham in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Three militants reportedly demanded a ransom of INR 10 lakh from a shopkeeper at Chakma Basti at gunpoint. The shopkeeper informed the villagers who reportedly assaulted him and later handed him over to the police. Gogoi joined the ULFA outfit in 2005 and was trained in Myanmar.

  • August 14: Police personnel arrest Kailash Sarmah, a ULFA "negotiator" alleged to have settled several deals between businessmen and the ULFA, from Shantipur under Bharalumukh police station in the Guwahati city. An unnamed police official said that Sarmah has reportedly settled several deals on behalf of the ULFA in and around the Guwahati city in the past few years. "He is a negotiator. If ULFA demands Rs 100, he settles it, for say, Rs 75," added the police official.

  • August 14: The Deputy Inspector General (Central Range) of Assam Police, L.R. Bishnoi, said, "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.

  • August 14: Police personnel recover three Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) from two separate places near Mangaldai in the Darrang district. Police raided the house of a civilian, Abdul Kadir, of Niz Kharupatea under Dhula police station and recovered two IEDs weighing about four kilogram each concealed in a bag. Police sources reveal that four suspected ULFA cadres, including a woman, had come to his residence and kept the explosives with the intention of exploding it in the adjacent Army camp.

  • August 14: The BSF during a meeting with the BDR authorities refutes 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 13: 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.

  • 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 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.

    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. An unexploded grenade is recovered from the incident site.

    ULFA ‘Sergent Major’ Kumud Bora, who is killed in an encounter with the Army at Bordubi Tea Estate in the Tinsukia district on August 9, is involved in extortion activities. Army sources said that Bora collected INR 6 million as extortion money from the Duliajan, Kakojan, Tengagaon, Rupai, Makum and Pengri areas of Tinsukia 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.

    Police arrested Anirudha Nath, the main accused in the August 5 Agia bomb blast, from an unspecified location. Anirudha claimed that three ULFA militants had forced him to plant the bomb threatening to attack him and his family if he disobeyed.

    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.

  • August 7: 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.

  • August 6: Police personnel arrested one ULFA activist, Bhupen Rajkonowar, from Paltan Bazaar in the Guwahati city. Earlier the police had recovered 15-kg TNT explosive from his parent’s residence at Tingkhong in the Dibrugarh district.

  • August 5: Eleven civilians were injured in a ULFA-triggered improvise explosive device blast near Sonari police station in the Sivasagar district. The bomb was kept in between gunny bags containing wheat and potatoes in a handcart. Police arrested the owner of the handcart, Mohammed Kalam Miya of Bihar, and Mohammed Ikramul Ansari, the shopkeeper from where the wheat and potato bags are purchased by the suspected militants.

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

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

    Police personnel arrested three ULFA militants, Dibyajyoti Boruah, Mano Medhi and Utpal Rajbongshi from Bharalumukh and Dispur areas in the Guwahati city. 25 detonators, four packets of liquid explosive gel, two bundles of fuse wire and some extortion letters were recovered from their possession. The four packets of semi-liquid colourless substance with the tell-tale label "Power Gel 801 Explosive" have led police to surmise that ULFA has added nitroglycerin, a high-energy explosive similar to the one used in the 7/7 blasts in London, to its terror arsenal.

  • August 2: The security forces arrested one ULFA militant, identified as Babul Rabha, from Thamna in the Nalbari district along with one hand grenade.

  • July 31: Police arrested one ULFA militant, Joiram Rabha, at Tarun Ram Phukan Road in the Guwahati city.

    Army personnel arrested ULFA cadre Arjun alias Ananta Moran from Dighalshaku village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 30: SFs, during a search operation in two remote villages under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district, recovered 25-kg of explosives. The Dibrugarh Additional Superintendent of Police, Ashim Swargiary, said that 12 kgs of explosives were recovered from the house of one civilian, identified as Phulo Gogoi, in the Sishumara Borkulpari village and another 13 kgs from a house in the Nosandang Kunwarchuk village. The police arrested four unidentified persons, including a 15-year-old girl, who allegedly has a relationship with a hardcore United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadre of the 28th battalion. The explosives, brought by another hardcore ULFA cadre of the outfit's 28th battalion, Amar Tanti, was to be used to disrupt Independence Day celebrations in Parade Ground and also as car-bombs to trigger off a series of blasts in the Upper Assam districts.

    SFs recovered 1,475 detonators and 67 bundles of fuse wires from a jungle near Sipajhar in the Darrang district. The recovery was based on information from an arrested ULFA associate, Munindra Saikia, by the SFs on July 28.

    The ‘709 battalion’ of the ULFA, under the command of Heera Sarania, is operating in several vital areas of lower Assam, including Guwahati city. The City police after arresting and interrogating four ULFA cadres of the 709 battalion revealed that they had received arms training in Naokata and Goreswar in the Kamrup district and are asked to carry out subversive activities as well as extortion drive in Guwahati.

  • July 29: Police arrested two ULFA militants, Mrinal Kalita and Dhireswar Deka, from Tulsibari area under Rangia police station in the Kamrup district.

  • July 27: Two ULFA militants, Ridumsa Mushahary alias Siphung and Uday Das, were arrested by from Garobasti under Dispur police station in the Guwahati city. Three bombs with cordex wire, one PTED switch, two detonators and a mobile phone were recovered from their possession.

    SFs arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Diganta Kalita, from Nizjhara in the Baksa district along with two hand grenades.

  • July 25: The Dibrugarh district police arrested one ULFA militant, Bitupon Moran, from Khalihamari Red Cross Road in Dibrugarh. Moran is a resident of Hebeta Gaon under Makum police station and was reportedly carrying an improvised explosive device to trigger a blast at Chowkidinghee playground on the eve of Independence Day celebrations.

    Intelligence sources are reported to have indicated that the ULFA has slapped extortion notices to some officials, traders and other individuals in the Dhubri district recently. The Executive Engineer of District Rural Development Agency has received one such notice, asking him to contribute a sum of INR 1000000 to the outfit immediately. The notice was signed by Hira Sarania, the commander of the 709 battalion of the ULFA.

    According to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sources, the ULFA ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Paresh Baruah last week reportedly met members of its armed wing and decided to intensify its offensive from July 27- the ‘martyrs’ day’ of the group - to August 15. The targets, according to the MHA sources, are the Marwari (the trading community) businessmen, army, police and paramilitary personnel, central government agencies and their employees. Baruah assigned the 27, 28, 709 and 109 battalions of the group to carry out the offensive with the tag that the common people should fall victims to the armed hostilities, sources added.

  • July 22: SFs arrested one unidentified ULFA cadre from the weekly market at Barama in the Nalbari district and recovered three grenades from his possession.

  • July 21: One unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Chaygaon area in the Kamrup district. One AK-47 rifle, two grenades, three magazines and some explosives are recovered from his possession.

    SFs neutralized one ULFA hideout inside the Abhaypur reserve forest of Sivasagar district. One universal machine gun (UMG), a carbine, three .303 rifles, a 12-bore gun, a 5-bore gun, a G3 rifle, a pistol, four grenade launchers, four improvised explosive devices, 121 rounds of UMG ammunition, 158 rounds of 12 bore gun and 32 rounds of G3 ammunition are recovered from the hideout.

  • 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. Four of the deceased were identified as Munna Shah, Abdul Mazid, Munmun Sheikh and Mangal Sheikh.

    The army arrested one woman, Ruzupi Borah, from Watai village under Pengeri Police Station in the Tinsukia district for her alleged link with the ULFA.

  • 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. One AK 56 rifle, four magazines and some ammunition were recovered from their possession.

    SFs arrested two ULFA linkmen, Kamal Singh and Durgeswar Moran, along with two kilograms of explosives, fake currency of INR 500 denomination and two vehicles from an unspecified place in Tinsukia district. Sources said that the militants were planning to carry out subversive activities on the outfit’s ‘martyr’s day’ on July 27.

  • 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.

  • 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 28th 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. 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 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 9: Army arrested Hemanto Sonowal, an ULFA linkman, from Talap area in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 8: One ULFA cadre, identified as Pradeep Gogoi, is arrested from Pengree in the Tinsukia district along with a country-made pistol, reports Sentinel. Sources said that he was involved in the killing of a school teacher, Rohini Gogoi, on May 24.

  • July 7: Suspected ULFA cadres abducted the owner of a grocery shop, identified as Phuleswar Moran, from his residence at Na-Mechekar village under Talap police outpost in the Tinsukia district and subsequently shot him dead. The bullet-riddled dead body of the victim is recovered from the Nameseka reserve forest.

    Police arrested one ULFA cadre, identified as Indra Gogoi, from Laipuli area in the Tinsukia district. One motorcycle and several SIM cards are seized from his possession. Sources said that he was trained in Myanmar and had sneaked into upper Assam with the intention of carrying out blasts.

    Based on Indra Gogoi’s information, police also arrested Bishwajeet Konwar, a suspected linkman of the ULFA, along with a pressure cooker, kept to be supplied to the militants to plant bomb.

  • July 6: The SFs defused an IED, suspected to have been planted by the ULFA at Prakash Bazaar area under Tinsukia town in the Tinsukia district. Police arrested two persons in this connection.

    One ULFA cadre, Jayanta Deka alias Ajai Deka, surrendered to the SFs in a surrender ceremony in the Barpeta district. Deka had reportedly joined the outfit in 2001.

  • July 3: Police arrested a ULFA militant, identified as Amrit Ranjan Dutta alias Mrityunjay Mahanta, from Charigaon area in the Jorhat district along with two bombs, weighing one kilogram each. Sources revealed that he was trained in Myanmar.

  • July 1: Police arrested two ULFA cadres, Mrigen Das and Naba Deka, suspected to be involved in the June 23-Machkhowa bomb 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.

  • June 30: Four persons are killed and at least 40 others injured in four blasts – three in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district and one in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. The ULFA is suspected to have carried out these blasts. Three persons are killed in two successive 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.

    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 is abducted by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) from Guwahati city on April 17.

  • June 29: SFs 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. Two foreign made pistols, one revolver, 12 rounds of pistol ammunition, 32 rounds of ammunition of AK-47 rifles, seven kilograms of explosives, four detonators, three Chinese-make grenades, four PTD and some discriminating documents are seized from their possession.

    The Army arrested Biren Bokolial, the Vice-President of Tingkhong Youth Congress, from his Bogasat resident in the Dibrugarh district for his alleged links with the ULFA. Biren has reportedly confessed to his active involvement in helping the ULFA in collecting extortion money from Rajgarh-Tingkhong area in the same district.

  • June 26: A journalist, identified as Chandan Phukan, surrendered to the police following media reports about his involvement with the ULFA.

  • June 25: Police sources confirmed that the explosive used by the suspected ULFA militants in the Guwahati blast on June 23 has been identified as a TNT device. An unnamed senior police officer said, "This finding has further strengthened our suspicions that ULFA is behind the explosion as the rebel outfit has used TNT in almost all the explosions it has carried out in the recent past." However, the ULFA spokesman and deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah has denied the outfit’s involvement in the explosion.

  • 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. Five of the victims were identified as Rafique Ahmed and his 10-year-old son Safique, Hasan Ali (17), Sanjib Ali and Hanufa Khatun (3). Acting Director-General of Police, R.N. Mathur, told the media that the blast was caused by an IED. Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Rajen Singh told The Hindu that the modus operandi indicated the hand of the ULFA. Meanwhile, denying it’s involvement in the blast ULFA spokesman ‘Maj’ Raju Barua claimed, "The ULFA wants to make it clear that it has never been involved in killing innocent people and it is only a conspiracy hatched by vested interests to malign the outfit’s name."

    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 20: A group of top surrendered ULFA cadres 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. Police also alleged that Rabin was working in the garb of a journalist and was instrumental in facilitating the last ‘Raising Day’ function of the ULFA at Manabhum Forest in Arunachal Pradesh.

  • June 19: Two CRPF personnel are killed and five other security force personnel injured in an ambush by suspected cadres of the ULFA and the 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.

    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.

  • June 18: Rudra Bora alias Bikram Bora, ‘second lieutenant’ of the ULFA’s 709 battalion, is killed in an Army operation at Modai Ghat, near Nao Dihing River in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. Bora was involved in a number of sabotage and terrorist activities in Lower Assam along with the ‘commander’ of the 709 battalion, Heera Sarania.

  • June 16: Suspected ULFA militants shot dead one SULFA cadre, identified as Rinku Choudhury, near Dispur in the Guwahati city.

  • June 14: 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. 

    One girl, identified as Jina Changmai, suspected of having links with the ULFA was arrested by the police from Raidangiya village under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district.  

  • June 13: Suspected United Liberation Front of Asom militants triggered an IED blast at Bullut weekly market under Hajo police station in the Kamrup district, killing two civilians and injuring 40 others. One of the deceased was identified as Sukur Ali. The police arrested three unidentified youths for their alleged involvement in the blast.

    Police personnel shot dead one ULFA militant, identified as Deepjyoti Kalita alias Paul, at Nabin Nagar area in the Guwahati city. The militant was reportedly involved in the series of recent bomb blasts in the city. Police also recovered two IEDs - each weighing 5-kg, one grenade, four detonators and two explosive circuits from the slain militant.

    One ULFA cadre, identified as Tapan Rai, managed to escape from an encounter that occurred between troops and the militant in a rented house at Dhirenpara area in the Guwahati city. However, police arrested his wife from the incident site.

  • 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.

  • June 9: Security Forces arrested two senior members of the ULFA, ‘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 7: The Army arrests 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.

  • June 6: The Guwahati city police formed a four-member Special Investigation Team, under a Deputy Superintendent of Police, to investigate the abduction of Food Corporation of India - regional head, P. C. Ram. He was abducted by the ULFA on April 17.

  • June 5: The ULFA’s 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 ULFA members, 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 also 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 4: Intelligence officials revealed that two top ULFA leaders, Chitrabon Hazarika and Lebu, have entered Meghalaya from Bangladesh along with two hardcore jihadi militants, 15 days ago. Hazarika is a close associate of the ULFA chief Paresh Barua. Sources added that both were arrested earlier by the Assam Police. However they managed to get bail and joined the outfit again.

  • 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 having provided logistic support and helping the outfit in its extortion drives.

  • May 31: Police 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.

  • May 29: One civilian, identified as Hira Taid, is killed in a crossfire between the security forces and militants belonging to the ULFA at Naharanibari village under Machkhowa Police Station in the Dhemaji district.

  • May 28: 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 were 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 continuously putting pressure on the Bangladesh Government to keep 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 26: Seven persons are killed and 18 others injured in an explosion triggered by suspected ULFA militants in the Athgaon area of Guwahati city. The explosives are packed in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw.

    Security forces killed 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. One grenade, one revolver, three cartridges, three bundles of fuse wire and two kilograms of explosives are recovered from the incident site.

    The Army defused an improvised explosive device, recovered from a compartment of the Delhi bound Brahmaputra Mail at Kokrajhar Railway Station in the Kokrajhar district.

  • May 25: Police sources said that the ULFA has reportedly threatened villagers of dire consequences if they do not intensify the agitation against the security forces for killing ‘innocent civilians’ in upper Assam. The public in districts of upper Assam have reportedly started raising their voice against the ULFA due to its continuing strike against innocent civilians.

    Assam Police 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 24: One suspected ULFA militant, identified as Budhe Dhadumia, is lynched to death by the public at Pengeri and his associate was detained 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.

  • May 22: Dhrubajyoti Lahan alias Deepak, a ‘Sergeant’ of ‘28 Battalion’ of the ULFA, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Singlopathar under Mathurapur police station in the Sivasagar district.

    The ULFA military spokesman, Raju Baruah, threatenes 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.

  • May 21: ULFA militants trigger a Programmable Timer Device planted on a bi-cycle at Paglasthan in the Bongaigaon district, injuring 15 people.

  • May 20: Troops defuse a bomb containing one kilogram of RDX, planted by the suspected ULFA militants, near Neuville Road in the upper Assam's Jorhat district.

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

  • 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. One pistol, four Austria-made grenades, several rounds of live ammunition, one handset, wires and switches are recovered from their possession.

    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.

    The Army arrests an ULFA linkman, identified as Apu Neog, at Bordumsa in the Upper Assam’s Tinsukia 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 16: The ULFA militants kills three civilians, identified as Tankeswar Sahu, Dipak Agarwal and Srinath Agarwal, in the Golaghat district taking the total number of persons killed since May 14 to nine.

    An encounter between the police and ULFA militants occurred at Borhat near Sonari town in the Sivasagar district. However, no causalities are reported.

  • May 15: ULFA militants shot dead six unidentified Hindi-speaking people in various areas of the Dibrugarh and Sivsagar districts.

  • May 14: ULFA militants trigger a Percutaneous Thrombolytic Device (PTD), killing two persons and injuring 11 others near the Athgaon branch of the United Bank of India in Guwahati city.

  • May 13: Eight 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 11: One ULFA linkman, identified as Pulin Rajkonwar, is arrested by the Police on May 11 along with five rounds of bullets of .32 pistol from Padumoni village under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district.

    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 serious damage to the pipeline.

    An improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the ULFA is detected by alert public in the Bharalumukh area in Guwahati City. A box with a green beeping light is found on the footpath of a road along Bharalu River near railway gate number nine and subsequently a bomb disposal squad defused the IED. Police said that six kilograms of TNT explosives, an electronic detonator, a remote service circuit, a 9-volt battery and several iron balls mixed with wax are recovered from the spot.

  • May 10: Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants trigger an 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 the Guwahati city.

  • May 9: Buddheswar Moran, who is killed by the Army on suspicion of being a ULFA militant at Laopatty village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district, is a civilian, confirms the Army.

  • May 7: An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the Army in the Tinsukia district. One 9 mm pistol, six rounds of ammunition, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), explosives, some detonators, 100 meter electric wire and documents were recovered from his possession.

    Police arrested 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, surrendered before the Army at Tamulpur Brigade along with a .38 revolver and some incriminating documents in the Nalbari District.

  • May 6: A ‘commander’ of the 27th Battalion of the ULFA, identified as 'lieutenant' Bipul Choudhury, is killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Sunpurena in the Karbi Anglong district. One nine-mm pistol, a magazine, six-round of live ammunition, an AK-47 magazine and 12 round of ammunition are recovered from the encounter site. Two of his associates, however, managed to escape from the incident site.

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

  • May 3: Three ULFA militants are killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Barkhajan village in the Nalbari District. Two of them were identified as ‘second lieutenant 709th battalion’ Chanakya Barman alias Khaplang and Pranab Kalita alias Jogesh Kalita alias Bastab. One .30 pistol, four grenades, ten metres of fuse wire, empty cartridges of AK-47 Rifles, an electric plug board, explosive materials and a mobile handset are recovered from their possession.

    Suspected ULFA militants detonate 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 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.

    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.

  • April 28: Police arrested three persons, including two ULFA militants, from the Jalukbari area of Guwahati city. The arrested ULFA militants included the organising secretary of the outfit's 28th 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 programmable time device (PTD) from the vehicle.

  • April 25: Four security force (SF) personnel are injured when ULFA triggered a bomb explosion at Medo in the Lohit district.

  • April 23: SFs killed three ULFA cadres, 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. One M-20 pistol, a grenade, five live cartridges, 500 grams of explosives, plastic jars and some incriminating documents were recovered from the incident site.

  • April 19: Two Assam Police personnel are killed in an encounter with ULFA militants in the Golaghat district along the Assam-Nagaland border.

  • April 17: ULFA abducts P.C. Ram, the Director of the Food Corporation of India’s Northeast office, from Guwahati. It also demanded INR 21 crore in ransom for his release.

  • April 10: Security forces kill seven top ULFA cadres, including two women cadres, identified as ‘corporal’ Rituparna Davidar alias Rishab Bora, ‘Lt. corporal’ Lily Moran, ‘corporal’ Jayanta Sonowal, Binanda Tsering, Prafulla Hazarika alias Brajen Sarma and Papu Gohain alias Himadri Gohain alias Moina Gohain in a counter insurgency operation at Tikoribam in the Lohit district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The Army recovered two AK-56 rifles, 256 rounds of live ammunition of AK-56 rifle, four AK-56 magazines, one 9-mm pistol, 13 rounds of 9-mm ammunition, two rounds of 9-mm magazines, two hand grenades, one bundle of fuse wire, two detonators, two mobile phones, six chargers, three memory cards, two spare SIM cards, blank extortion notices, 16 photographs, Rs 8,000, one five-rupee note of Bhutan currency, three watches, a gold ring, six diaries and six letters.

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

    SFs arrest three hardcore ULFA militants, Mridul Ali alias Manjit, Milon Deka and Sukra Deka, along with three grenades, four detonators and some ammunition from an unspecified location in the Kamrup district.

  • April 8: One ULFA militant is killed and 14 civilians are injured when a bomb carried by two ULFA militants riding a motorbike exploded at Kumarpara area in Guwahati.

  • April 3: At least 15 civilians, identified as Pranjit Rabha, Gajendra Talukdar, Mohammad Su-jab Ali, Mukut Ali, Sushil Das, Mina Kumari, Rijuan Sharif, Niranjan Baroi, Khagen Nath, Umesh Sahu, Kari Sahu, Dwijen Sarkar, Sunil Singh, Anil Jain and Vinod Kumar Shah, sustained injuries in a ULFA triggered grenade attack at a marketplace in the Machkhowa area of Kamrup district on. Official sources said the attack occurred on the eve of a 12-hour Assam bandh (strike) called by the outfit in protest against alleged police atrocities on the wives of missing ULFA cadres.

  • April 2: In a counter-insurgency operation, security forces killed four ULFA cadres in the Udalguri district. They also recovered two AK-56 rifles, two grenades, 125 live ammunition, four magazines and 25 empty cases of AK-56 rifles from the incident site.

    The ULFA called for a 12-hour Assam bandh (strike) on April 4 to protest the arrest of wives of the outfit's leaders who went missing during the crackdown by the Royal Bhutan Army.

  • March 29: The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa rejected the Assam Government’s offer for "unconditional" talks on the peace initiative. He said that 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 28: A ULFA linkman, Romen Chetia, is arrested from the Dibrugarh town.

  • March 27: Dibrugarh district police neutralized a network of the ULFA with the arrest of the head assistant of the district and sessions court, Munin Konwar, for allegedly helping the militants and their linkmen procure bail.

  • March 21: SFs shot dead a ULFA militant, identified as Ratneswar Rabha, and arrested another, identified as Lawrence Marak, near Jengjal in the West Garo Hills district, while the militants were planning to cross over to Tikrikilla after entering from neighbouring Bangladesh. SF’s also seized 3-kgs of RDX from the incident site.

  • March 19: SFs arrested four suspected ULFA militants, identified as Rubul Saloi, Jitu Kalita, Dhaneswar Kumar and Pulak Das, in the Baksa district.

  • March 15: The ULFA triggered 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.

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

  • March 14: A ULFA militant, Raghu alias Rintu Hajong, and three suspected supporters of the outfit, Nurmahammad Miyan, Mohammed Safiul Islam and Amzad Khan, are arrested by Army personnel from the Chirang district on an unspecified date. A sophisticated revolver and two country-made rifles were reportedly recovered from their possession.

  • 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, mentioned the report.

  • 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 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.

  • March 7: A self-styled "sergeant major" of the ULFA, identified as Tapan Kakati alias Ratul Pegu, is arrested while traveling in a three-wheeler along National Highway 37 in the Jorhat district. Kakati, an arms expert trained in Myanmar, was wanted in several cases since the counter insurgency operations against the ULFA in Bhutan in late 2003.

  • March 7: 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 6: 19 persons including a college lecture are arrested 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 5: Assam Police arrest a person, Montu Dutta, for serving extortion notes under the pad of the ULFA at Cinnamara area in the Jorhat district.

  • March 5: Nine paramilitary personnel and the civilian driver of a convoy are wounded, as ULFA militants 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.

  • March 5: 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • February 27: A suspected ULFA militant, Mrinal Rai, is arrested by SF personnel during a search operation at Chanderpara in the Kokrajhar district.

  • February 25: The Strategic Foresight Inc (Stratfor), a United States based think tank, publishes a report stating that ULFA has given extorted money worth $6 million to political parties in Bangladesh. Describing ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua as "an enormously wealthy racketeer worth approximately $110 million", the report says that at least 15 election candidates belonging to both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League have received money from the outfit. The report states that ULFA is "hedging its bets in order to protect its militant and business operations in Bangladesh, should either party win". The report adds that Paresh Barua has business operations throughout India, Bangladesh and the Persian Gulf, "including hotels, consulting firms, driving schools, tanneries, department stores, textile factories, travel agencies, investment companies, shrimp trawlers and soft drink factories".

  • 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. A mobile handset was recovered from his possession. Following his interrogation, Army personnel arrest Bichitra Kumar, a correspondent of a vernacular daily from Dirak Chariali, for giving his SIM card to the ULFA.

  • 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 19: A ULFA linkman, Jibon Manki, is arrested at Dhola in the Tinsukia district. An improvised explosive device (IED) is recovered from a suitcase on a railway track and is later defused near Tipok Tea Estate under Doomdooma police station in the same district.

  • February 16: ULFA threatens to resume its attacks on Hindi-speaking people and leaders and workers of the ruling Congress party. An unidentified leader of the outfit’s 28th battalion called up a section of the media in Guwahati and claimed that the Union Government as well as the State government had not "responded positively to the outfit’s lifting the ban it had imposed on the ongoing 33rd National Games. They have continued their operations, which had once again prompted the outfit to take to the path of violence."

    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 15: A report suggests that at least 100 militants belonging to the NSCN-K and ULFA were reportedly killed during a massive counter-insurgency operation by the Myanmar Government in its territory bordering the North Eastern States of India. ULFA had over 300 cadres in the camps when the operation began on January 26.

  • February 15: Dibrugarh district police arrest a person, Yasin Huda, for his involvement in extortion. Huda, identifying himself as a ULFA cadre, made a phone call to Arun Barua, an engineer of Northeast Frontier Railways, demanding ransom worth INR 50,000.

    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. Two mobile phones and some indiscriminating documents are recovered from their possession.

    An unidentified ULFA militant and a homeopath doctor, Govind Handique, are arrested from Kanhubari area along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh-Nagaland border. The militant had come from the ULFA camp situated in Arunachal Pradesh for getting medical treatment in Assam when he was arrested. The doctor was arrested for his suspected links with the ULFA.

  • February 14: A ULFA militant, Kabin Moran, is killed in an encounter with the security force personnel at Inthang village near Manabhum Reserve Forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, bordering upper Assam. However, three other militants, including one injured during the encounter, managed to escape from the incident site.

    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," says the sources by 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."

    A cadre and a linkman of the ULFA, identified respectively as Branthik Sangma and Samar Deb, surrender at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district. They deposited a Thailand-made pistol, an automatic sub-machine carbine and 30 rounds of ammunition.

  • February 12: An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with security personnel 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.

    A make shift camp of the ULFA is destroyed at upper Dihing reserve forest near Samoguri village in the Tinsukia district.The camp serves as a base for providing medical treatment to the injured ULFA militants and other subversive activities in the area. Audio cassettes, mobile phone covers, files, diaries, clothes such as pants, jackets, scarves etc. are also recovered from the camp.

  • February 9: An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is detonated by suspected militants at the Kamakhya railway station in the outskirts of the Guwahati city. No one, however, is injured in the explosion. Police sources said train services were not affected by the explosion.

    An IED weighing 12 kilograms is found from a railway track in Mamoroni, near Makum railway station in the Tinsukia district.

    A senior unidentified police officer in Chhattisgarh said that Assam-based ULFA provides technological knowhow to the Maoists who triggered an explosion killing seven persons at Bhairamgarh in the Dantewada district on February 8. Elaborating on the technology, the officer, on condition of anonymity, said the lunchbox was connected with two detonators and batteries.

    An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Choki village under Borbori ploice station in the Baska district. One 9mm pistol, six rounds of live ammunition, two Chinese grenades are recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • February 7: A ULFA militant, identified as commander of the outfit’s 27th 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.

  • February 6: An ULFA militant, Sanjib Rava alias Jakson Rava, is killed in an encounter with Army at Barjhora under Lakhipur police station in the Goalpara district. One grenade is recovered from possession of the slain militant.

  • February 5: At least three civilians are injured when suspected ULFA militants trigger a bomb blast at Kamakhyaguri Railway station in the Jalpaiguri district.

    ULFA withdraws the boycott call to the 33rd 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 4: A powerful car bomb explodes in front of the Panbazar police station in Guwahati. "The car was brought from near the Sani temple in Fancy Bazar around 11-30 am yesterday. Three more vehicles were also brought but those were later collected by their owners…..This is a new technique adopted by the ULFA," says Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Rajen Singh. While no casualty is reported, several vehicles and buildings are damaged in the explosion.

  • February 3: A farmer, identified as Jugantar Neog, is shot dead by ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Tinsukia district. According to police sources, Jugantar Neog was suspected by militants of working for the Army and district authorities.

    A self-styled ‘corporal of 28th battalion’ of ULFA, Sanabar Moran, is killed in an encounter with security force (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.

    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says 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 says in Guwahati. He, however, adds, "There is no need for worry. We are not relaxing our vigil. I appeal to all, even the ULFA, to extend cooperation for holding the National Games successfully."

  • January 31: Two ULFA linkmen, Swaraj Das and Sarbojyoti Gogoi, are arrested by Chabua and Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district. A person, identified as Jayanta Hazarika, is arrested from Majuli island in the Jorhat district for having links with ULFA leader Amrit Dutta.

    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.

  • January 30: Two Hindi-speaking persons are shot at and wounded by ULFA militants at Mazbat in the Udalguri district.

    Two ULFA linkmen, Pradip Pal of Namrup and Nabakanta Baruah of Khowang, are arrested by the Tinsukia District Police.

    Three women and a man are arrested from Singla Pathar area under Mathurapur police station in the Sivasagar district along the Assam-Nagaland border for harbouring ULFA militants. Militants manage to escape.

    The 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 29: A ULFA linkman, Surjit Borgohain, is arrested from Kutuha village under Borboruah police station in the Dibrugarh district.

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

    Security force (SF) personnel have 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 cache of arms and explosives, including 16 rounds of ammunition, a detonator, a diary, an improvise explosive device and writing pad of the ULFA, are recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

    A ULFA militant, identified as Swadhin Rabha, is shot dead in an encounter at Kalpani village under Krishnai police station in Goalpara district. One AK-56 assault rifle with ammunition is recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  • January 28: An activist of the ruling Congress party, identified as Khagen Charringia, is shot dead by ULFA militants at an unspecified place in the Sivasagar district.

    A grenade planted by the suspected ULFA militants is recovered and later defused near the main gate of the Army’s 17 battalion in the Udalguri district.

  • January 27: A ULFA militant, Swadhin Rabha, is killed in an encounter with security force personnel near Krishnai under Dudhnoi police station in the Goalpara district.

    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 is involved in the recent killing of Hindi-speaking people at Longswal under Doomdooma police station.

  • January 26: The ULFA militants hurl a grenade in the Namtol area of Sivasagar district injuring four persons, including a child. Elsewhere in the same district, ULFA militants hurl a grenade on the Congress party office at Sonari. No casualty is reported in the incident.

    Assam Governor Lt. Gen (Rtd) Ajai Singh, while addressing the Republic Day celebration in Guwahati, says that the United Liberation Front of Asom (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). The report adds that 53 militants were killed and 826 arrested in the State during counter-insurgency operation in 2006.

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

    ULFA militants trigger an explosion at Kacharibasti near Ganeshguri locality in Guwahati. The bomb is concealed in a dustbin. No casualty is reported. Further, ULFA militants explode two bombs at separate places in Hajo and Rangia in the Kamrup district. No casualty is reported in either of these incidents.

    At least six ULFA linkmen are arrested during a search operation in the Tinsukia district.

  • 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 crude bomb is recovered during a search operation near Basugaon police station in the Chirang district.

    A time bomb, suspected to have been planted by the ULFA, explodes near an aluminium manufacturing plant at Pakorijan in the Tinsukia district. The compound wall of the plant is partially damaged in the blast.

    ULFA militants lob a grenade at an Army convoy at Rangiya in the Kamrup district.

    A ULFA militant, Dhananjay Rai, is arrested from Abhayapuri in the Dhubri district. 14 detonators, three safety fuses and seven gelatin sticks were recovered from his possession.

    A ULFA militant, Mangal Moran, surrenders at the Daisajan outpost of Tinsukia district.

  • January 23: A leader of the ruling Congress party, identified as Chandra Chutia, was shot dead by ULFA militants at Tarani Pathar under Naharkatia police station in the Dibrugarh district.

    Suspected ULFA militants hurl a grenade at a residential area of Bhatipara in the Goalpara district. However, no casualties are reported in the incident.

    One civilian is killed and 14 others are severely 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. The owner of the tea stall after sighting the unclaimed bag threw it into a nearby drain before the explosion occurred.

    At least six persons are injured in an explosion at the Paglasthan market in the Bongaigaon district. The explosive was reportedly hidden in a bag and left on a bi-cycle in front of a shop. Elsewhere in the district, suspected ULFA militants trigger an explosion under a culvert near Bongaigaon town.

  • January 22: At least 10 to 15 armed ULFA cadres infiltrate into the East Garo Hills district in two groups from the Krishnai-Agya stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border after counter-insurgency operations is launched in the Kamrup and Goalpara districts of Assam.

    Meghalaya Police say that three kilograms of RDX and eight grenades, recovered from ULFA cadre Raju Basumatary on January 19, were part of the arms consignment for the ‘27th battalion’ of the ULFA. Basumatary confesses during interrogation that he had brought RDX and arms from Bangladesh through Garo Hills and then to the Ri-Bhoi district. A top police official, quoting his confession, says, "With the arrest and the subsequent seizure, the ULFA’s 27 battalion suffered a setback... Besides RDX, grenades and a 1-mm pistol, the Asom Police’s huge haul of arms, ammunition and Rs 16 lakh cash from Jorabad in the Meghalaya-Asom border three months ago were ferried by Basumatary." The report added that Basumatary had used one person, Shonlang Rympei, to transport the consignment to the ULFA cadres.

    A ULFA militant, Bikash Roy alias Mallic Ahmed, is arrested from a rented house at Panjabari area in Guwahati. Bikash reportedly worked for the ULFA as an agent of the MULTA. Some incriminating documents were recovered from his possession indicating his close rapport with a section of politicians. He was involved in the January 9-bomb blast in Dispur, the capital of Assam.

    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. While the injured militants manage to escape, a mobile phone is recovered from the incident site.

    Two persons, including a woman and a bank employee, are arrested from Jorhat district for having links with the ULFA.

    Three ULFA linkmen, Manoj Sonowal, Jatin Konwar and Achit Konwar, are arrested in separate search operations in the Sivasagar district.

    A top Army officer reports that five arms dealers are arrested from unspecified places in upper Assam while entering from Nagaland indicating that the ULFA is still procuring weapons. The report adds that Army has arrested 20 ULFA leaders and 12 overground cadres, and recovered three universal machine guns, one Thomson Sub Machine Gun, AK series rifles, pistols and rifles from them in the recent past.

    A ULFA militant, Bikash Roy alias Mallic Ahmed, is arrested from a rented house at Panjabari area in Guwahati. Bikash reportedly worked for the ULFA as an agent of the MULTA. Some incriminating documents were recovered from his possession indicating his close rapport with a section of politicians. He was involved in the January 9-bomb blast in Dispur, the capital of Assam.

    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 21: 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.

    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.

    Two persons, Gopal Dutta and Roopak Dutta, are arrested while planning to plant bombs at various places in Jorhat town. Roopak Dutta was an ULFA militant arrested in Bhutan in 2003.

    An ULFA militant, Pallab Saikia, who was arrested on December 14 in 2006, confesses that a group of 11 ULFA militants were responsible for carrying out the attack on Bangladesh’s opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed on August 21, 2004.

  • January 20: Two Hindi-speaking persons are killed and eight are injured as ULFA militants trigger a powerful blast in Tinsukia town. Inspector-General of Police (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma says that a time device planted on a motorbike parked on Siding Chamber Road of Tinsukia town went off killing one person and while another person succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. Within an hour of the incident, police arrest two suspected ULFA militants at the Tinsukia railway station. The duo, allegedly involved in the blast, had entered Assam from the outfit's camp inside neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.

    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. The outfit had earlier threatened to target Congress leaders and workers if any of its cadres is killed by the security force personnel.

    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 possession of the slain militant.

    Twenty more companies of central paramilitary forces are sent to Assam for internal security duties as well as for providing security for the National Games at Guwahati in February.

  • 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.

    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 ULFA linkman, Dhruba Kujur, is arrested from an unspecified place at Makum in the Tinsukia district. According to police sources, Kujur was among the four militants who carried out attacks on Hindi-speaking people at Longsuwal in Doomdooma.

    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.

    Two suspected ULFA militants, identified as Rajiv Basumatary and Wansanlang Rympei, are arrested from Bhoirymbong area near Umroi airport in Shillong. Three kilograms of RDX and a 9-mm pistol are recovered from them. Rympei is involved in gunrunning.

  • January 18: Three ULFA linkmen, including one identified as Tarun Mahanta, are arrested in Bandarkati, Doomdooma and Kakopathar areas of Tinsukia district. A grenade and seven rounds of AK-56 ammunitions are recovered from them.

    A ULFA cadre, Azad Chetia alias Girish Gogoi, is arrested from a village near Sunpara under Sarakapara police out post in the Sibsagar district.

    A ULFA ‘commander’, Jiten Dutta, calls up some leaders of the ruling Congress party at Doomdooma to ask for the release of a militant, Tarun Mahanta, who was arrested from Bandorkhati Dahotiain in the Tinsukia district.

  • The ULFA, while justifying the killing of Hindi-speaking persons, is reported to have asked "all Indian citizens who migrated to Assam" to leave the State.

    January 17: Two civilians, including a child, are killed and 12 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.

    The ULFA triggers an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) targeting an Army convoy which narrowly escaped on the Goalpara-Agia road in the Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

    Two bombs explode at the ground floor of the Asom Cooperative Apex Bank building at Badarpur town in the Karimganj district.

    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’.

    A ULFA linkman, Shankar Chakma, is arrested by security personnel while neutralizing two camps run by the outfit by at Monobhum reserve forest of Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh. Books showing location of top ULFA leaders, medicines, clothes and rations are recovered from the camps.

  • January 16: Security force personnel foil an attempt by a suspected ULFA militant to attack a group of brick kiln workers at Nikinikhowa village under Kamalabari police station in Majuli subdivision of Jorhat district. While the militant manage to escape, an AK-56 rifle is recovered from the incident site.

    Guwahati Police arrest three persons, identified as Kamal Banikya, Jagadish Rabha and Samina Khatun, in connection with the blast at Dispur. Kamal and Jagadish are remanded to police custody for three days.

  • January 15: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said 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 14: Three ULFA militants, Manipal Narzary, Ganesh Basumatary and Unglu Basumatary, are arrested from Kokrajhar district. A huge cache of arms and explosives, including an Italian 7.5-mm pistol, two 9-mm pistols, some grenades and several rounds of cartridges, are recovered from them.

    Two ULFA militants are arrested during a search operation in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

    Four ULFA militants are arrested in upper Assam. While two are arrested from Tingrai area in the Tinsukia district, two more are arrested from Naoholia in the Dibrugarh district.

    Around eight children hailing from the State Jharkhand, who were working in Assam, are reported missing following the recent ULFA attacks in upper Assam.

  • January 13: A ULFA cadre is arrested from Nipunkheti in the Tinsukia district. Medical instruments like a blood pressure measuring machine and a stethoscope, 75 copies of the outfit’s publication Freedom, a combat dress and 100 liquor bottles are recovered from his possession.

    Two militants, Jan Bhuyan and Bijoy Chakma, respectively belonging to the NSCN-K and ULFA surrender before the 29 Assam Rifles at Jairampur in of Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. They deposit two universal machine guns, one radio set, a carbine and ammunition, after deserting their respective camps in Myanmar. Bhuyan confesses that at least 60 ULFA cadres are currently undergoing training in Myanmar under the guidance of the NSCN-K.

    Army claims to have arrested an ULFA sympathiser, Mutlib Ali, near Santipur in Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh.

    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 12: Three unidentified ULFA militants are killed and three others arrested during a counter-insurgency operation in the Darrang district.

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

  • 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 masterminded and executed some of the worst massacres in upper Assam, including the latest serial killings of Hindi-speaking migrants.

  • January 10: An ULFA linkman, Khotman Mithi, is arrested during a search operation at Karbi Anglong district. Two AK-47 rifles with four magazines are recovered from him.

    An unidentified ULFA militant is arrested in the Tinsukia district. An AK-47 rifle is recovered from him.

    Three ULFA militants along with arms and explosives are arrested from Udalguri district.

    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi accuses Indira Goswami, a member of the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group, of "hiding facts" relating to the ULFA’s links with the ISI. The Chief Minister stated, "Why did she not reveal whatever the Centre told her about Ulfa’s link with Pakistan’s ISI?"

  • January 9: A ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the troops at Dangargarh under Tamulpur police station in the Baska district. One AK-47 rifle and one magazine are recovered from the slain militant.

    Two civilians and two policemen, Boli Narayan Choudhury and Bharat Saharia, are injured in a bomb explosion triggered by the ULFA cadres at the Dispur Capital Complex.

  • January 9: The Army launches a operation, code-named Rhino-II, across Assam, but primarily in upper Assam, including the Sibsagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

  • January 8: One civilian is killed in cross fire between Army and ULFA militants at Sadhubasti Naohalia village under Duliajan police station in the Dibrugarh district.

    The 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 7: The ULFA kills a block-level Congress party leader, Ajit Deori, in his residence at Bordumsa in the Tinsukia district.

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

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

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

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

  • January 6: A teenaged Hindi-speaking boy is injured when ULFA militants shot at him at Kochugaon in the Kokrajhar district.

  • January 5: ULFA militants kill six persons, hailing from the State of Bihar, at Tukuria Chapori under Jonai police station in the Dhemaji district.

    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.

  • January 4: Six ULFA militants, Pitar Rava, Sriram Rava, Bidhan Rava, Ashok Narzary, Gangaram Koch and Sujit Rava, are arrested following an encounter with the security force (SF) personnel near Hail river under Kachugaon police station in the Kokrajhar district.

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

  • January 2: Two ULFA militants, Kongkon Gogoi alias Kamal Gogoi and Surajit Gohain alias Yugantar Phukon, are killed in an encounter with security force personnel at Chirang Gaon under Bordubi police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • January 1: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while asking ULFA to participate in peace talks, said, "sovereignty is out of the question".

2006

  • December 31: Two unidentified ULFA militants are killed and four others, Arun Thapa, Jagu Dorji, Veer Bahadur and Samuty Chakma, are arrested during a counter-insurgency operation at Mendo in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. A cache of arms and explosives, including one 7.65 mm Italian automatic pistol, two local-muzzle loaded rifles, one magazine, two rounds of cartridges, two fired cases, along with a radio set, a sony MP4 recorder, and a mobile phone, is recovered from the incident site. The arrested ULFA cadres confess during interrogation that they were planning to target security forces on the eve of New Year in Lohit as well as in the Tinsukia district of Assam.

  • December 30: A huge cache of arms and explosives, including several gelatine sticks, nine detonators and small arms, 90 pieces of assorted explosives weighing nearly two kilograms, was recovered from two arms suppliers, Pradeep Basumatary and Bangal Mushahary, who were arrested from an unspecified place near Runikhata in the Chirang district. They confess to having procured arms and explosives from a company based in Hyderabad and later supplied the same to the Assam and Meghalaya-based outfits, including the ULFA and NDFB.

    Three persons, Kishore Deka, Pankaj Kalita and Nayan Thakuria, are arrested from Betkuchi under Gorchuk police outpost in Guwahati city, for serving an extortion note worth INR 50,000 on a fake ULFA letter pad to a trader at Fancy Bazaar.

  • December 28: A search operation is carried out at Mariani in the Jorhat district along the Assam-Nagaland border. One person is arrested. However, Assam Police neither confirm nor deny the report. According to police sources, both the Adivasi Nationalist Liberation Army and ULFA cadres are making a quick getaway by crossing the border to Nagaland, which has become a safe haven for various militant factions.

  • December 27: A police constable is seriously injured when the ULFA militants opened fire on police personnel who were searching for Mantu Saikia alias Bijoy Das, a cadre of the outfit, at Bhatiapar Rupahimukh in the Sibsagar district.

    One kilogram of brown sugar worth INR 1.30 crore is recovered from six militants of the ULFA and NDFB, who are arrested from a hotel at Gossaigaon town in the Kokrajhar district. While three ULFA cadres are identified as Sumi Ram Rava, Budhadev Rava and Rupa Rava, three suspected cadres of the NDFB are identified as Monu Basumatari, Sagar Basumatari and Sintu Musahari.

    Assam Police confirms that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is at the top of ULFA's hit list. The recent arrest of ULFA cadres in Dibrugarh and Sibsagar districts in upper Assam and their subsequent interrogation revealed that the ULFA was "planning something big to attract the Centre's attention towards its demands."

  • December 26: A self-styled woman ‘corporal of the 28 battalion’ of the ULFA, Karabi Phukan alias Bandita Phukan, was arrested by security force personnel during a counter-insurgency operation at Teokghat under Sonari police station in the Sibsagar district.

  • December 25: A cadre of the Bravo company of the ULFA, Biswajit Bora alias Raktim Suraj Gogoi, is reported to have surrendered at Maibela in the Sibsagar district. He deposited some Chinese-make grenades, three gelatin sticks, eight fuse wires and 15 rounds of AK-47 ammunition.

    Assam Government confirms that three ULFA militants, Samiran Baruah, Numal Chetia and Bonti Gogoi, who were arrested in Sivasagar district on December 23, gave Dibrugarh police a list of the names and addresses of the ULFA militants operating in the capital city.

  • December 24: A school teacher, Narayan Sapkota, was arrested from Guwahati and is later remanded by a city court to police custody for five days, for helping ULFA militants in their extortion drive in Assam’s capital.

    The Army recovers 6,700 copies of an ULFA propaganda bulletin from a vehicle near Sonari town in the Sibsagar district.

    The ULFA-backed PCG rejects Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s offer of "safe passage" to top ULFA leaders as a ‘political gimmick’.

  • December 23: A woman cadre of the ULFA, identified as Bobby Chetry alias Manisha Sarma, is arrested by the city police during a search operation at an unspecified place near the Guwahati Medical College Hospital.

    A court remands Samiran Baruah, the mastermind of the recent blasts triggered by ULFA in Guwahati, along with two of his accomplices, Numal Chetia and Bonti Gogoi, for three days. They were arrested at Abhaypur near Sonari town in the Sibsagar district. According to their confession, the ‘28th battalion’ of ULFA was planning bigger terror attacks than those triggered recently in the Guwahati city.

    A grenade was hurled by suspected ULFA militants at a shop at Maharipara Bazar Chowk under Goreswar police station in the Baska district. However, the grenade fails to explode. The owner of the shop, Chita Pandit, earlier served an extortion note, failed to pay the ransom amount.

  • December 22: The Central intelligence agencies revel, following the arrest of a ULFA militant, Prabal Saikia, from Shillong on December 19, that the ULFA is trying to use Shillong-Cherrapunjee and Shillong-Pynursla routes and other parts of Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya for trans-shiftment of arms from Bangladesh and exfiltration of its cadres to Bangladesh.

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly told Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi that the Union Government would offer safe passage to top ULFA leaders if they come forward for direct peace talks with the Government.

  • December 21: A trader, Pawan Newar, is shot dead by ULFA militants at Beltola area in Guwahati city.

    An improvised explosive device, planted on a bicycle, is triggered by suspected ULFA militants in the Athgaon area of Guwahati city, injuring at least 20 persons. "The ULFA was behind the blast," says Avinash Joshi, Kamrup District (Metro) Deputy Commissioner.

    A grenade is exploded by the ULFA injuring two persons including a trader, Babulal Agarwalla, in Gaurisagar area of Sibsagar district. Earlier, Babulal had received an extortion note from the ULFA.

    A ULFA militant, Bodhiya Bhumij, and a linkman of the outfit belonging to Bangladesh, Dildar Hussain, are arrested at Ticklipam under Namsai police station in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • December 19: A ‘commander’ of the ULFA ‘27th Battalion’, ‘captain’ Pallav Saikia alias Ananta Kakati, is arrested along with his wife Moromi at an unspecified place of Meghalaya. Moromi, earlier arrested by the Royal Bhutan Army during the operation to flush out the ULFA militants from Bhutanese territory, rejoined the ULFA after she was released by Indian authorities.

    A factional clash among the ULFA militants occurs leaving three militants, including ‘commander’ of the 28th battalion, Prabal Neog alias Benu Bora, dead at unspecified places inside the Manabhum Reserve Forest in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • December 17: The ULFA threatens to mobilise public resistance against the Oil India Limited’s (OIL) attempt to carry out seismic survey on Brahmaputra river bed to search for hydrocarbon.

  • December 15: A person belonging to the Adi tribe, identified as Biru Tayeng, and a ULFA linkman, Keshab Bora, are arrested by security force personnel during a search operation at Sarkholia Chapori along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. A single-barrel gun, explosives and some ULFA-related literature are recovered from Tayeng’s possession.

    Assam Legislative Assembly appeals to the ULFA to withdraw its call for a boycott of the 33rd National Games scheduled from February 9 to 18, 2007

  • December 13: At least four Army personnel are injured as a bomb, planted inside a pressure cooker by the ULFA militants, explodes at Kakotibari in the Sibsagar district.

  • December 12: Two ULFA militants, identified as Kolia Moran alias Swapna Moran and Menua, surrender to the 2 Bihar Regiment at Tinsukia. They also deposited three hand grenades, 10 mines, a pistol and explosive materials to the authorities.

    Hundreds of people blocked the Dibrugarh-Lahowal-Tengakhat-Duliajan road in the Dibrugarh for more than three hours demanding the release of suspected ULFA link-man Bhaimon Hazarika, who was reportedly arrested on charges of providing logistical support to the militants involved in the explosion on December 8 that killed at least five persons. State Government asks top ULFA leaders like 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa and 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua to take part in the peace talks with the Centre.

    Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi stated that the Assam Government is not opposed to the PCG initiatives for facilitating the talks between the militant outfit and the Centre. However, he clarifies that his Government does not think the PCG to be the representative of the people of Assam.

  • December 11: Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain informed the State Legislative Assembly that at least 1,051 cadres of various militant outfits, including the ULFA, were killed in encounters with the security forces since May 2001.

    A civil society organization, Dhubri Zilla Nagarik Manch (Dhubri District Citizen Forum), calls for a 12-hour general strike in the Dhubri district demanding the arrest of Abu Taher Bepari, the Legislator of Golokganj Assembly constituency, for his alleged links with the ULFA.

  • December 10: Assam Police identifies Madhurjya Gohain, a cadre of '28 battalion' of the ULFA, as the mastermind of the December 8-IED explosion killing four police personnel and one civilian at Suraj Nagar under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. "Gohain is an expert in handling explosives," says an unnamed police officer.

  • December 8: An IED planted by the ULFA blows up a requisitioned police convoy at Suraj Nagar under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district, killing four police personnel and the civilian driver. The ULFA claimed responsibility for the blast and said that the explosion was executed to avenge the killing of three of its members, including middle-rank leader Charan Majhi, by the police on November 3.

  • December 6: Assam Government appeals to the ULFA to withdraw its call for sportspersons to stay away from the forthcoming National Games.

  • December 5: A ULFA militant, Jiten Munda, is shot dead by security force personnel at village Torani under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • December 4: A link-woman of the ULFA, identified as Namita Kalita, is arrested from Guwahati in the Kamrup district. "Namita was acting as a very important liaison person between the underground ULFA cadres and those who are in various jails, besides channeling funds for the rebel outfit," says Rajen Singh, the additional police chief of Guwahati city.

    Another woman cadre of the ULFA, Chayanika Bora a.k.a. Maini Bora, who was arrested from Gowal village under Teok police station on December 2-night, was remanded to police custody for seven days after she was produced in a court in the Jorhat district.

  • December 2: A woman cadre of the ULFA, Chayanika Bora alias Maini Bora, is arrested during a search operation at Gowal village under Teok police station in the Jorhat district. Two more persons are also arrested for providing shelter to the ULFA cadre.

    The ULFA asks the Union Government to give a written commitment that the issue of Assam's 'sovereignty' will be discussed in the negotiations.

  • December 1: An encounter between the security forces and suspected ULFA militants is reported from Dighaliagaon under Naharkatia police station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • November 30: A SULFA cadre, Nripen Mohon, is shot dead by ULFA militants at Mohmora village in the Sibsagar district.

  • November 30: Assam Police say that the ULFA has established links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka. "The ULFA leadership has established diplomatic relations with the LTTE and there is evidence in that regard," informed an official of the Assam Police. "The ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan) introduced LTTE's arms suppliers to ULFA leaders and two Tamils were arrested in Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh when a huge quantity of ammunition meant for the ULFA was seized," said the official, adding, that arms were also supplied to ULFA through Cambodia, for which the group paid "hard currency routed through Nepal." Reports added that the ISI had facilitated recent visits by top ULFA leaders, including its 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah, to Singapore, Thailand and other countries.

    The Inspector General of Border Security Force of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland Frontier, Jyoti Prakash Sinha, said that both the ISI and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) 'threatened' ULFA to dissuade itself from peace talks with the Government of India. He mentioned that on September 3, 2006, a meeting between the ULFA, ISI and BNP leaders was arranged at Hotel Agrabad in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. The meeting was attended by ULFA chief Paresh Barua, the ISI Brigadier T. K. Bax and BNP leader Tarique Rehman Zia, who is the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

  • November 29: Suspected ULFA militants trigger an IED blast blowing off a security convoy, killing one Army personnel, N. Yella Reddy, and injuring four Army personnel and two civilians at Asomiagaon under Joypore police station in the Dibrugarh district.

    A surrendered ULFA cadre, Bhaskar Saikia alias Mission Sonowal, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his residence in the Lengrai village of Tinsukia district.

    The Union Ministry of Home Affairs said that the ULFA has been recruiting unemployed youths and set up training camps in deep forests. The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, S. Reghupathy, informed the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of parliament) that the possibility of ULFA recruiting their cadres from neighbouring countries can not be ruled out.

    The Government is aware that the insurgent groups from Northeast have set up camps in the neighbouring countries, he added.

  • November 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the ULFA is under the grip of Pakistan's ISI. He told a 12-party delegation from Assam, led by former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Mahanta, which met him in New Delhi that he was ready to re-start talks with the ULFA but the group would first have to shake off the ISI yoke guiding its actions.

    The delegation had urged Dr. Singh to resume "unconditional" talks with the ULFA. Mahanta said after the meeting, "The PM said Centre is ready for talks (with ULFA) as and when they come out of the clutches of ISI."

    A ULFA militant, Lalit Moran, is shot dead by SF personnel in an encounter at Liton Hatigarh in Watiat village under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district. Suspected ULFA militants attacked Rangapara police station in the Sonitpur district with a grenade.

  • November 27: A ULFA cadre, Joneshwar Sonowal, is arrested from Tengapathar under Talap police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • November 24: A person, Madhu Debnath, who was injured in the November 23-explosion triggered by the ULFA at the railway station in Guwahati, succumbs to his injuries increasing the number of fatalities to four.

    Army accuses Pakistan's external intelligence agency, the ISI, of planting "sleeper agents" among the immigrant population of Assam. The General Officer Commanding in Chief of the 4 Corps, Lt. General R. K. Chhabra, said: "The ISI that is backing ULFA in cooperation with the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in Bangladesh has sleeper agents among migrants on river isles. ULFA leadership is in Bangladesh, thanks to ISI and DGFI. Jihadi groups from Bangladesh are providing arms and finance to ULFA.

    The jihadi elements have taken root. They are not into terrorism in a big way, but involved in gun-running, fake currency rackets and drugs. They went to Bangladesh for training and are now lying low as sleeping agents of the ISI."

  • November 23: Three persons, including a woman and a child, are killed and 11 others are injured when an explosion was triggered by suspected ULFA militants at the railway station in Guwahati.

    The victims are identified as Vinay Chauhan, a rickshaw-puller, his wife Reena Chauhan and their child Uday. The Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) planted in a cycle-rickshaw was reportedly detonated by the programmable timed delayed device.

    Sivasagar district police state d that only 40 per cent of the huge ransom extorted in the name of ULFA goes to the outfit, with the rest 60 per cent being invested in business by persons who are never suspected to be ULFA activists. This was revealed from the confession of two ULFA agents, Anupam Ojah and Anil Dutta, arrested earlier.

  • November 22: An IED is exploded by suspected ULFA militants targeting a security convoy at an unspecified place near Naguapara village in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

  • November 21: Assam Police confirm that elephants have destroyed several makeshift camps of the ULFA at chaporis (sandbank) along the River Neamati in the Jorhat district. "We had information about the rebels setting up camps on these small islands and were planning to take action. But the elephants did the job for us," said a senior police officer.

    Ranjit Das, a boat operator who arrested earlier from the island of Majuli for helping ULFA militants going across the river, confesses to the Police that elephants had also forced the militants to change their travel plans.

    Militants prefer to cross the river by night but no boatman wants to take the risk now for fear of running into wild elephants on the sandbanks, said Ranjit.

  • November 20: Paresh Deka, a constable arrested for his alleged links with the ULFA, is remanded to police custody. Ranjit Das, a boat operator, is arrested from the island of Majuli for helping ULFA militants going across the river Neamati in the Jorhat district.

  • November 19: The '7th Battalion' of the ULFA has established camps at Kawaimari near Deothang in Bhutan. "With the intensified counter insurgency operations in Upper Asom districts, the 7th battalion of the militants had set up the camp in Kawaimari," informs the Special Branch of Assam Police, adding, "We are aware of their movement. Operations are on and the security forces had gunned down the commander of the 1st camp of the 7th battalion Dipak Deka on Friday night."

  • November 17: An extortion note bearing signatures of two ULFA-backed PCG members, Lachit Bordoloi and Dilip Patgiri, is recovered from two persons, Rebot Bora and Pankaj Sarma, arrested during a search operation near the Guwahati Commerce College.

    The extortion note citing amount worth INR 20, 000 was meant for D. Hojai, the Director of Health Services. Troops recover an IED planted by the ULFA under a culvert at Sengelimora village in the Sibsagar district.

  • November 16: The ULFA-backed PCG member Indira Goswami announces her withdrawal from the peace process. "I am hurt by the lack of transparency," said Goswami, adding: "I am not a politician. And as such I feel hurt because of the delay in the peace talks process… I am primarily an author and would like to concentrate fully on creative work. I think I have fulfilled my role as peace facilitator and have succeeded in bringing the government and ULFA closer through the People's Consultative Group."

  • November 15: At least eight ULFA militants, including a 'lance corporal of 27 battalion' Shankar Bora, are arrested from Bokolia under Howraghat police station. One Chinese grenade, an AK-47 magazine and INR 1.27 lakh are recovered from their possession.

    A ULFA militant, Ashis Gohain, is arrested by police personnel in a search operation at the Assam State Transport Corporation bus terminus in Nagaon. An M-20 pistol is recovered from his possession. The ULFA demands protection of the rights of non-Bodo people in the Bodoland Territorial Council administered areas.

    The outfit refers to allegations about "a certain section" of the people extorting money from "non-Bodo indigenous people" residing in the Bodoland areas.

  • November 14: The ULFA triggers an IED blast damaging crude oil pipeline of the Oil India Limited at Dishangpani in the Sibsagar district. The crude oil caught fire immediately after the explosion. However, the authorities managed to control the blaze before it caused more damage. At least seven kilograms of Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (also known as RDX), concealed in a pressure cooker by the ULFA, are recovered from a road at Sarupathar near Sapekhati in the Sivasagar district and later defused by SF personnel. Two detonators fixed with the RDX and some wires are also recovered from the incident site.

    An ULFA cadre, Bhaimon Gogoi alias Bidyut Chetia, arrested at Kokilamukh area in the Jorhat district, confesses to his interrogators that the outfit during its latest extortion drives in Majuli subdivision, extracted ransom worth INR 5, 00, 000 in two months.

    Bhutan's Ambassador in India, Dago Tshering, said: "We have no report whatsoever of the ULFA setting up any new camp inside Bhutan or operating from anywhere in the country. On our side, the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has been deployed to check or keep vigil over any militant influx, and on your side, we are aware of the SSB deployment for the same purpose."

  • November 13: An ULFA linkman, Monoranjan Sen, is arrested by SF personnel during a search operation at Golokganj Senparawas near Agomoni in the Dhubri district.

    A surrendered ULFA cadre, Basanta Kalita, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Luitpathar near Sualkuchi in the Kamrup district.

    A police personnel and two civilians are injured when suspected ULFA militants lobb a grenade at Superintendent of Police (Operations) Jitmal Doley's official residence at Panbazaar in Guwahati city.

    A suspected ULFA cadre, Monoranjan Sen alias Dinesh Sen, was arrested from Shernagar village under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district. The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Assam Telecom Circle receives from Assam Police a list of at least 97 mobile phone numbers suspected to have been used by ULFA militants in the Tinsukia district for verification. The Union Government conveys to the ULFA-backed People's Consultative Group members that counter-insurgency operations against the banned outfit will be stopped only after it gives a written commitment for holding direct talks with the Government. "The Centre has asked for a written commitment from ULFA about the date of holding talks," said Indira Goswami after an hour-long meeting with the National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan.

  • November 11: A ULFA militant, Thulonto Borgohan, is shot dead in an encounter with SF personnel at No. 1 Labour Enclave in the Hukunpukhuri Tea Estate along Jaigyakhowa-Barekuri Road in Tinsukia district.

    An ULFA cadre, Bhaimon Gogoi, is arrested at Nahatia area near Kokilamukh in the Jorhat district. A pistol, ammunition and three mobile SIM cards are also recovered from his possession. Gogoi confess during interrogation about a linkman harbouring ULFA cadres and helping them in extortion drives.

  • November 12: Suspected ULFA militants trigger an explosion targeting an oil pipeline of the Oil India Limited at Habeda Tea Estate under Bordubi police station in the Tinsukia district. Another explosion is triggered at Ketujan in the same locality.

    A ‘corporal’ of the ULFA, Bhaikon Gogoi alias Mintu, is arrested by SF personnel following a brief encounter at Sasoni Ambari under Naharkotia police station in the Dibrugarh district. While another militant, Ram Gogoi, manages to escape from the encounter site, two radio sets and a couple of mobile phones are recovered from possession of the arrested militant.

  • November 11: Suspected ULFA militants trigger a bomb blast in a gas pipeline of the Oil India Limited at Dhekulajan under Tengakhat police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • November 10: Two CRPF personnel, Bansi Lal and Khagen Chetia, are killed and eight others were injured in an ULFA-triggered IED explosion targeting two security convoys near Sadiya police station in the Tinsukia district.

    A grenade is hurled by ULFA militants at the residence of Nagaon district Superintendent of Police Krishna Das, injuring police personnel guarding the house.

    A bomb specialist of the ULFA, Monoranjan Borphukan alias Manab Baruah, surrenders before the District Magistrate of Dibrugarh, Ashutosh Agnihotri. Monoranjan deposits two hand grenades, 90 rounds Self Loaded Rifles cartridges, four grenade fuses and two detonators.

  • November 9: The Union Government extends the proscription on the ULFA.

    An ULFA linkman, Biswajit Rai, is arrested in a search operation at Kachokhana area under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district. Extortion notes, pads, a diary and incriminating documents are recovered from his possession.

    A ‘corporal’ of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA, Amal Hazarika alias Mrinal Barua alias Dipak, surrenders before the Jorhat District administration. Two grenades, 10 rounds of ammunition and the magazine of an M-16 rifle are deposited by him. Another ULFA cadre, Gopul Lonfoi, surrenders before Morigaon District Collector at the Army’s Red Horns Division camp near Jagiroad in the Jorhat district.

  • November 8: A child, Debojit Moran, is shot dead and his sister, Dipanjali Moran, is wounded in a cross fire between Army personnel and the ULFA militants at Mohong village under Pengeree police station in the Tinsukia district.

    Two bicycle-borne ULFA militants open fire with AK-47 rifles killing a grocery shop employee, Ghanashyam Das, at Kulhati Chatrashal under Hajo police station in the Kamrup district.

  • November 7: Assam Governor, Lt. Gen. Ajai Singh, confirms involvement of the ULFA in the November 5 twin blasts at the Fancy Bazaar and Noonmati areas in Guwahati. Sections of the Hindi-speaking community, who settle in Guwahati, desert Assam following the November 5 bomb blasts triggered by the ULFA.

  • November 6: An unidentified ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the Police at Santinagar under Noonmati police station in the Guwahati city. Explosives, including 13 grenades, nine electric detonators and some wires are recovered from his possession.

    The Union Home Ministry convenes a meeting of senior army officials and central forces in New Delhi to review the security scenario in Assam. Home Secretary V. K. Duggal, while chairing the meeting, says that the involvement of the ULFA is suspected in the blasts. Duggal claims that the situation is under control and adequate security personnel are deployed in the State.

    The ULFA ‘Charlie company commander’, Jiten Dutta, claims that a “third force” has engineered the blasts in Guwahati to defame the outfit. Dutta claims that ULFA was in no way involved in the twin explosions.

  • November 5: At least 14 persons are killed and more than 52 others sustained injuries in two separate bomb blasts triggered by suspected ULFA militants at Fancy Bazaar and Noonmati area in Guwahati. Seven persons, including three identified as Paban Shah, Monsun Rai and Puranmal Choudhury, are killed and several others wounded in a bomb explosion at a tea stall in the Jai Narayan Road of Fancy Bazaar. Further, four persons, Majid Ali, Mustan Ali, Manuara Begum and Manoj Das, are killed and seven others wounded in another explosion at Patharquarry area in Noonmati near installations of two Public Sector Undertakings, the Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India Limited.

  • November 3: Three ULFA militants are killed by SF personnel in a counter-insurgency operation at Kardoiguri under Moran police station in the Dibrugarh district. Two out of three slain militants are identified as ‘area commander’ Charan Majhi and a corporal in the 'C' Company of the ‘28 Battalion’ Anup Dehingia. According to police sources, a huge cache of arms and explosives, including one AK-56 rifle, one Spanish M-20 pistol, 73 rounds of live ammunition, one mobile phone, 100 grams of suspected RDX, two packets of explosives, 32 detonators, one safety fuse, one programmable timer explosive device, a packet of splinters, along with camping materials like polythene sheets and ground sheets and some documents is recovered from the encounter site.

  • November 2: Assam Director General of Police, D.N. Dutt, says that the ULFA is “using certain stretches of the Bhutan for taking shelter.” Earlier, S. K. Sarkar, Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) of West Bengal, had said that the ULFA and the KLO were establishing camps in Bhutan and Nepal and are being helped by the Maoists of Nepal. Bhutanese embassy in New Delhi denies the presence of ULFA or any other militant group in the country. Jigme Tenzin, third secretary in the press division of the embassy, says, “I would like to state for the record that since the removal of all 13 camps of the Ulfa from Bhutan during the military operations conducted by the royal Bhutan army in 2003, there has been no presence of the ULFA or any other group inside Bhutan.” Tinsukia District Police arrested a person, Nirmal Singh Gurung, for distributing Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited to suspected ULFA cadres.

  • November 1: ULFA threatens to strongly resist attempts by a Pubic Sector Undertaking, Oil India Ltd, to explore petroleum oil in the Brahmaputra basin.

  • October 30: ULFA explodes three IEDs simultaneously in upper Assam's Tinsukia district soon after troops crossed the area. However, no casualties were reported.

  • October 29: One ULFA cadre identified as, Kanak Rava, was arrested by the security force personnel during a search operation near Dadan police outpost in the Goalpara district. A Chinese-made hand grenade was recovered from his possession.

  • October 28: Two children were killed and several others sustained injuries in the ULFA triggered twin bomb explosions at Guwahati on the banks of the river Brahmaputra during Chhath Puja (an annual Hindu festival dedicated to the worship of the sun).

  • October27: At least three civilians were killed and 22 persons, including one woman, a child and two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, sustain injuries when an improvised explosive device planted on a bi-cycle parked in front of Paramount Restaurant is triggered at Dhekiajuli town in the Sonitour district.

    An ULFA militant, Milan Saikia alias Bhaskar Sonowal, surrenders before the Dibrugarh District Administration.

  • October 26: A trader, Jayanta Dey, is shot dead by the ULFA militants at Doomdooma in the Tinsukia district, for his failure to respond to the extortion notice served on him by the outfit.

  • October 23: An unidentified ULFA cadre is killed and another wounded, when a grenade targeting SF personnel explodes at village Narayanpur in the Lakhimpur district. "The grenade exploded in the militant's hand before it could hit the target.

    One of the bombers died on the spot and another was seriously injured," said Assam Police (Intelligence) Chief, Khagen Sharma.

  • October 23: A senior police official posted in a Bodoland Territorial Council-administered district says that the ULFA militants were spotted in areas just across the border with Bhutan. "I will not say that they (ULFA) have established major camps in the jungles of Bhutan as yet, but their presence there has certainly been noticed," says the police official.

    The ULFA-backed People's Consultative Group member, Indira Goswami, appeals to the Union Government to restart the peace process with the group.

  • October 21: A ULFA cadre, Mahendra Gogoi alias Manaspratim Gogoi, is arrested from Magarahat village in the Sivasagar district.

    The '28th battalion' of the ULFA reportedly announces a ceasefire on its own without waiting for the formal 'directive' from its high command and the outcome of the ongoing negotiations between the Union Government and the ULFA-backed People's Consultative Group.

  • October 19: At least four ULFA cadres, Rantu Medhi, Dhanen Ray, Manwar Hussain and Shahjahan Ali, are arrested from Bongaljura area in the Goalpara district.

    Two ULFA cadres, Aftab Ali alias Rontu Medhi and Dhojen Roy alias Appu Saikia, and a linkman, Munawar Hussain, are arrested in a search operation at Bangaljihar in the Goalpara district, for their involvement in the recruitment of new cadres for the outfit.

  • October 18: A surrendered ULFA cadre, Kamal Hazarika, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Borabhayapuri under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. All the major political parties in Assam condemn the ULFA for carrying out explosions, other subversive activities, and bringing in children and students into militancy.

  • October 17: Two ULFA linkmen, Kabindra Sonowal and Arup Bora, are arrested from Jokhai area in the outskirts of Dibrugarh town.

    ULFA militants kill a civilian, Dilip Barua, whose dead body is recovered from Meseki forest under Pengri police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • October 16: SFs foil a plan by the ULFA to plant IEDs and blow up oil and gas pipelines at Duliajan under Lankasi police station in the Tinsukia district. Digging tools and wires are recovered from the incident site.

  • October 15: A trader, Omprakash Agarwalla, is shot dead by ULFA cadres at his grocery shop under Morn police station in the Sivasagar district. He was earlier served extortion note by the outfit, according to police sources.

    One ULFA cadre, Gautom Kalita, is killed in an explosion of a crude bomb that he was manufacturing at his rented accommodation at Kahilipara in Guwahati.

    The ULFA-backed People's Consultative Group seeks a communiqué from the Assam Government on the stalled peace process with the outfit.

  • October 14: The ULFA kills a trader's son, Ghanashyam Maheswari, at Machkhowa in the Dhemaji district for his refusal to pay ransom to the outfit.

  • October 12: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs submits to Myanmar's Government a list of 15 militant camps run on its soil by the outfits, including ULFA.

  • October 11: The ULFA triggers an IED explosion blowing up a security convoy and injuring security force personnel at an unspecified place near Dasaijan village in the Tinsukia district.

  • October 9: A bicycle borne-ULFA militant hurls a grenade injuring one person at a crowded shopping place at Digboi in the Tinsukia district.

  • October 8: Two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants, Simanta Bora and Baikuntha Gogoi, hurl a hand grenade at the Amguri police station in the Sibsagar district.

    A civilian, Lakhi Das, was injured and the building of the police station was partially damaged. The duo were arrested in the subsequent search operation.

  • October 8: An ULFA cadre, Keshab Saikia alias Kachu, is injured in an encounter with security force personnel at Hilloidhari village in the Dibrugarh district. An electronic detonator, 500 gm of TNT explosives and incriminating documents were seized from the injured militant. However, the two militants managed to escape from the encounter site.

  • October 7: An IED is exploded by the ULFA at Borhat Sibsagar district. However, no casualty was reported in the incident.

    A grenade is hurled at Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district. However, no one is injured in the incident. Later, two persons, Diganta Sonowal and Bhupen Sonowal, were arrested from the nearby Langri Borhulla village in connection with the grenade attack.

  • October 6: A ULFA 'corporal', identified as Debojit, is killed by SF personnel in a counter-insurgency operation at an unspecified place in the Sibsagar district.

  • October 5: Four civilians and three police constables are injured in a grenade blast triggered by two motorcycle-borne ULFA militants targeting a security convoy in front of the Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • October 5: Two other motorcycle-borne ULFA militants hurl a hand grenade at Namrup police station in the Dibrugarh district in a simultaneous attack. The compound wall of the police station was partially damaged.

    The Central Intelligence Wing submits to the Army a list of at least 25 ULFA cadres, who have taken shelter at various places of upper Assam, most of them belonging to the '28th battalion' of the outfit, and all of them are equipped with sophisticated arms and explosives, including assault rifles of AK-56, AK-57, AK-47, along with other communication gadgets. The list includes Jiban Moran, Jiten Dutta, Probal Neog, Bijoy Chinese, Ujjal Gohain, Poresh Majhi, Jun Bhuyan, Rubul Sarma, Pranjal Saikia, Dibakar Moran and Aagan Barua.

  • October 4: Two ULFA collaborators, Ghanakanta Hazarika and Sashidhar Hazarika, are arrested by the North Lakhimpur police from Badhakara area.

  • October 4: Across Assam, wine shops remain open throughout the day, defying a 'directive' of the ULFA to open liquor outlets only after 7 pm on weekdays. "For all practical purposes, we are running the business on behalf of the government, which has given us licence to do so. We cannot open or close as we like. If we do so, our licences can get cancelled," said Alok Datta, the general secretary of the All Assam India-made Foreign Liquor Retailers' Association.

  • October 1: The ULFA triggers a hand grenade blast targeting police personnel at Nalanipalam in the Dhemaji district. While the grenade attack fails to hit its intended target, a male child, Debabrata Dhingia, is killed, and at least 20 persons are wounded.

  • September 29: Suspected ULFA militants trigger a grenade explosion injuring eight persons at a shopping place, the Central Plaza market complex, in the Tinsukia city. Two vehicles are also damaged in the blast.

  • September 29: Suspected ULFA militants use a powerful bomb to blow up a portion of the Oil India Limited (OIL) pipeline at Salbari under Tingkhong police station in the Dibrugarh district. OIL spokesperson Phanindra Dev Choudhury said, "It was a 10-inch gas distribution pipeline and our workers were on the job throughout the night to repair the damaged facility. The extent of the damage is yet to ascertained.”

  • September 29: Police recover and defuse a powerful bomb planted by the ULFA in a dustbin on the busy Plaza-Assam trunk road in Tinsukia town.

  • September 28: At least six persons, including two SF personnel, are wounded in an IED explosion triggered by the ULFA at a shopping place at Digboi in the Tinsukia district.

  • September 27: Suspected ULFA cadres trigger a grenade explosion targeting SF personnel at Kundil in the Tinsukia district.

  • September 27: An encounter between Army and ULFA militants is reported from an unspecified area in the Tinsukia district.

  • September 27: The ULFA-backed PCG pulls out from the peace talks with the Union Government. The PCG spokesperson, Aroop Borbora, said: “we feel that due to the attitude of the Government, which made a complete summersault on the assurances given earlier, holding of further parleys with the Government would not serve any purpose.”

  • September 27: A decomposed dead body of a suspected ULFA cadre was recovered from a drain at Bordumsa in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • September 25: A ULFA cadre, Mohipal Moran, is killed and five soldiers wounded during an encounter at Borpathar under Pengeri police station limits in the Tinsukia district. A 9 mm Chinese pistol, five rounds of 9mm ammunition, seven rounds of AK-47 ammunition, a hand grenade and cash worth INR 50,000 are recovered from the slain militant. Two ULFA cadres are arrested following the incident.

  • September 25: The ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa has stated that his outfit is not bothered about the breakdown of the cease-fire. "We don't want a truce and instead committed to ending the war. The government of India's ceasefire announcement in August was nothing but a drama enacted by them," Rajkhowa stated.

  • September 25: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi offers the ULFA leadership one more chance to meet their jailed leaders. "I can allow the ULFA leadership, if they want to consult the jailed leaders on the peace process. I have no problems if it leads to bringing peace in the state," he says.

  • September 25: The ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua warns all ‘Indians living in the North-east’ to pay taxes to the outfit and also appeals to the local inhabitants to contribute according to their means to the outfit’s coffers.

  • September 24: The Union Government declares resumption of counter-insurgency operations against the ULFA in Assam, after the deadline for suspension of operation against the outfit expires on September 20. A statement issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) says that the ‘suspension of operations’ against the outfit is called off ‘with effect from today’. The statement adds, “Operations had been suspended some time back because of the possibility of direct talks with Ulfa towards (the) peace process. However, efforts for pursuing the peace process by the government will continue.”

  • September 24: A ‘corporal’ of the ULFA, Diganta Baruah alias Bitupan Baruah, is killed in an encounter with SF personnel at Mazmamoroni near Lekhapani under Digboi police station in the Tinsukia district. However, another injured militant manages to escape from the encounter site. Further, nine Army personnel and a civilian, Dwipen Baruah, are also injured in the encounter.

  • September 23: The ULFA kills a tea estate manager in Assam. Police said four ULFA cadres shot dead Haren Das, a manager of the Hailanga tea estate in front of his residence, in Digboi town. The attack comes a day after the Union Government indicated that military operations against the outfit could resume.

  • September 22: ULFA militants kill police personnel, Ranjit Sonowal, at Than Gaon village under Barbaruah police station in the Dibrugarh district. The militants opened fire on police personnel, who were searching for an extortionist belonging to the outfit, identified as Debu Dutta.

  • September 22: National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan conveys to the ULFA-backed PCG member Indira Goswami that the Union Government will not extend the suspension of counter-insurgency operations against the outfit in Assam without receiving a written commitment from it on holding direct peace talks.

  • September 20: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi states that the ULFA is yet to refrain from carrying out its extortion activities.

  • September 17: According to Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources, at least four training camps are run along the India-Bhutan border where ULFA cadres are getting trained by the LTTE in carrying out suicide attacks.

  • September 16: At least INR 16, 00,000 is recovered from the possession of two suspected ULFA cadres, identified as Ramzan Ali and Bablu Deka alias Niberan Deka, who were arrested from Mawiong in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalya.

  • September 12: The ULFA seeks time till September 20 to respond to the Union Government’s demand for a formal letter before carrying forward the negotiations.

  • September 7: Army officials state that the ULFA cadres are involved in extortion, despite the suspension of counter-insurgency operations against the outfit.

  • September 5: The suspension of counter-insurgency operations against the ULFA is extended till September 15. The extension is announced by the Union Home Secretary, V. K. Duggal, following a meeting with the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group (PCG) members, Indira Goswami and Rebati Phukan, in New Delhi.

  • September 5: The National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan denies any step on part of the Union Government to unilaterally release five arrested ULFA leaders. Before holding a meeting with the ULFA-backed PCG members, Narayanan says, "Let them come for talks first."

  • September 3: The Union Government decides to convene an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss the peace process in Assam, following the ULFA’s refusal to give a written commitment on direct talks with the Government.

  • September 3: Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, while making a case for a direct communication between the Government and the outfit, says that more civilians than militants are killed in the State since the ULFA constituted the PCG to negotiate on its behalf.

  • August 31: The ULFA in a communiqué assures the Union Government that five of its jailed leaders will not abscond, once they are released. A letter written by ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua is delivered to Union Home Secretary V.K. Duggal by mediator Indira Goswami.

  • August 30: Union Home Secretary V. K. Duggal says that the Union Government is expecting a response from the ULFA, before the suspension of counter-insurgency operation expires on September 5. “They have time until September 5 and we expect a response before that,” said Duggal.

  • August 28: The Border Security Force demands deportation of ULFA ‘general secretary’ Anup Chetia, and other leaders from Bangladesh at the bi-annual meeting with the Bangladesh Rifles in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya.

  • August 24: Meghalaya DGP, W. R. Marbaniang, says that counter-insurgency operations against the ULFA will continue in the State, despite the suspension of Army operations by the Union Government in Assam. “We have taken care of ourselves and the army is only assisting us in (counter-insurgency operations). In 99 per cent cases, the state police are doing the job,” says the DGP.

  • August 24: The Union Government seeks a written assurance from the ULFA to come for peace talks as a condition for the release of its five arrested leaders. The Government asks the outfit to announce its team for negotiations and to specify a timeframe to start direct talks. However, the outfit rejects such conditions set by the Government.

  • August 23: The Union Government decides to extend the suspension of counter-insurgency operations against the ULFA by 15 days. A decision to this effect is taken at the meeting between the Government and the ULFA-backed PCG to decide modalities for direct negotiation with the outfit. While the National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan and officials from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs represent the Government, the PCG is represented by Indira Goswami and Rebati Phukan. "As of now, we have decided to extend the suspension of the army operations against ULFA for 15 days," says the Union Home Secretary V. K. Duggal.

  • August 21: The Union Government asks the ULFA backed-PCG members to stand for personal guarantee for the release of five arrested leaders of the ULFA.

  • August 19: The ULFA denies that it had declared a unilateral cease-fire. The outfit’s ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa says that the ULFA will exercise ‘restraint’ in response to the Union Government’s suspension of security operations against its cadres. Rajkhowa says, “We will exercise restraint in response to the government's announcement to suspend operation and we will try our best to maintain our restraint.” He also urges all concerned “not to create confusion by quoting statements not made by the ULFA on serious issues concerning the people.”

  • August 15: The ULFA along with KLO, MPLF, NLFT and TPDF, in a joint statement, calls upon the people of the North East region to boycott the Independence Day celebration and also calls a 12-hour general strike.

  • August 14: Three persons, including a woman and her son, are killed and seven others sustain injuries when suspected ULFA militants trigger a grenade explosion targeting security convoys near Lifecare Nursing Home at Duliajan town in the Dibrugarh district.

  • August 14: A grenade explosion is triggered at Makum Petrol Depot in the Tinsukia district.

  • August 14: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, while asking the ULFA to abjure violence and extremism, says that difficult issues can be resolved only through dialogue and negotiations. He mentions that the Union Government is doing its best to create an atmosphere where direct talks can be held with the outfit. “Peace and progress is the need of the hour, without which commerce, industry or trade can never take root in the State. Terror and violence must be removed if problems like lack of development and unemployment are to be resolved,” says the Chief Minister.

  • August 13: The Union Government decides to halt all operations by security forces against the ULFA for a few days. Union Home Secretary V. K. Duggal says, “We have advised army and other security forces in Assam to suspend their operations against ULFA for a few days.” He further says, “However, this does not mean that if they resort to any misadventure that will not be replied back. Appropriate action will be taken.” The decision comes days ahead of a crucial meeting between the representatives of the Union Government and mediators appointed by the outfit in New Delhi to discuss modalities for initiation of direct peace talks.

  • August 13: The ULFA has set up three camps in the Sandrup Jhongkar district of Bhutan, after its cadres were driven out by a counter–insurgency operation in December 2003. According to the report, Hira Sarania, a top leader believed to be close to the outfit’s ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua, is heading the cadres operating from these camps.

  • August 12: A woman, Jongli Devi, is killed and eight persons wounded in a grenade explosion, suspected to have been triggered by the ULFA, at Bamunimaidan locality in Guwahati. Additional Superintendent of Police, Rajen Singh, says that the blast occurred around 7.20 p.m. in the Bamunimaidan railway colony area. The blast occurs amidst heightened security measures in the city with police and para-military forces intensifying patrolling to foil sabotage attempts by the ULFA militants, who have called for a boycott of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15.

  • August 11: Six police personnel are killed after suspected ULFA militants ambush a police convoy at Ratanipathar under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district.

    While five personnel are killed at the incident site, another succumbs to injuries in the Assam Medical College Hospital.

  • August 10: The ULFA along with KLO, MPLF, NLFT, TPDF in a joint statement call upon the people of the North East region to boycott the Independence Day celebration and also jointly call a 12-hour general strike for August 15.

    According to official sources, there has been some movement of ULFA cadres in Garo Hills since the last few months.

    The outfit's cadres cross into Bangladesh from West Garo Hills plain belt areas and enter into Assam from the Tikrikilla, Rongsai, Bajengdoba and Mendipather areas.

  • August 8: At least four new training camps of the ULFA were reportedly found along the India-Bhutan border in the Nalbari district.

    Arunachal Pradesh Police arrest five persons, Nuney Tayang, Nakul Chai, Dwarika Meso, Surendra Singh and Makhan Hazarika, from Lohit district for helping the ULFA.

    While four of them are office bearers of the State Congress, another one is a relative of a leader of the party.

  • August 7: An unidentified person is killed and 15 others, including four Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a child, are injured when ULFA militants explode a grenade at Digboi Chariali in the Tinsukia district.

  • August 6: Two unidentified ULFA militants are killed when a grenade, they were carrying, explodes at Mission Chariali near Defence Theater in the Tezpur district. Several persons are also wounded in the explosion.

    Eight paramilitary force personnel are wounded when suspected ULFA militants hurl a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force patrol party near Bhojo railway station under Charaideo subdivision in the Sivasagar district. A hardware shop owner, Sanjay Agarwal, is shot at and wounded by suspected ULFA militants at Gaurisagar Tiniali in the Sivasagar district.

    A ULFA militant, Sundar Chetia, who is arrested from Tinsukia district, confesses during interrogation that he has been extorting money ranging from Rupees 50,000 to Rupees 1 00, 000 annually for the past three years and sending them to Ujjwal Gohain, ‘finance controller of the 28 battalion’ of the outfit.

  • August 5: At least 15 persons are injured when suspected ULFA militants trigger a grenade blast at Jonai in Dhemaji district.

  • August 4: A grenade is triggered by ULFA cadres, targeting a security convoy, killing one SF personnel, Manoj Kumar, and injuring two others at Dhelakhat in the Tinsukia district.

  • August 3: The National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan informs the peace interlocutor Indira Goswami that the Union Government is seeking a formal letter from the outlawed ULFA for the release of its five arrested leaders as well as for direct peace talks.

    "The government wants a formal letter from the ULFA seeking the release of the five jailed leaders and giving consent to sit for direct talks,” says Goswami in New Delhi.

  • August 1: A hardcore United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadre, ‘sergeant major’ Rajen Dutta, is killed during an encounter with the SF personnel at Tamulbari in the Dibrugarh district. An AK-47 rifle, a mobile phone, three SIM cards and cash worth INR 1,000 are recovered from the incident site.

  • July 31: Four ULFA cadres are shot dead in two separate encounters with SF personnel in the Nalbari district. While, two militants, Bhupen Lahkar and Hemanta Deka, are killed at Arora village, two others, including one identified as Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya alias Kaushik Sarma, are shot dead at Dhaniagog village on the bank of the river Pagladia.

  • July 31: An ULFA cadre is arrested following the encounter at Arora village. A cache of arms and explosives, including one 9 mm pistol, 3 Chinese grenades, and 3 rounds of live ammunition, is also recovered from the two encounter sites.

  • July 31: An ULFA leader, Mridul Hazarika alias Bhaskar Barua, who was a prime accused in the Sanjoy Ghosh murder case of 1997, is shot dead by police personnel in an encounter at Khanakrishnapur village under Gogamukh police station in the Dhemaji district. While two other militants, Anil Basumatari alias Gadapani and Bhaben Sonowal alias Biplab Kachari, surrender, a cache of arms and explosives is recovered from the encounter site. Sanjoy Ghosh, who worked with the NGO Avard-NE, was abducted and subsequently killed by the ULFA in July 1997.

  • July 29: The ULFA communicates to the Union Home Ministry that its precondition for direct peace talks with the Union Government is release of the five leaders — all members of the Central Committee, ULFA's highest decision-making body — jailed at Guwahati in Assam. The communication to the Home Secretary Vinod Kumar Duggal is sent through the peace interlocutor Indira Goswami, who belongs to the ULFA-backed People's Consultative Group (PCG).

  • July 28: An unidentified civilian is killed by ULFA militants at Sadiya in the North Lakimpur district, while a cadre of the outfit is shot dead in an encounter with SF personnel inside a hotel at Margherita town in the Tinsukia district. July 26: The peace interlocutor belonging to the People’s Consultative Group (PCG), Indira Goswami, conveys to the Union Home Secretary, V. K. Duggal, refusal of ULFA to name its representatives for direct peace talks with the Union Government unless its five arrested leaders are released ahead of the talks.

  • July 25: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, S. Raghupathy, informs the Lower House of the Parliament that available reports and confession of arrested ULFA cadres indicate links of the outfit with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the external intelligence agency of Pakistan.

  • July 24: A group of women cadres of the ULFA manage to escape following an encounter with SF personnel at Khowji village in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.

  • July 19: The Union Government asks the ULFA to establish direct contact with the government without which, it says, there will be no scope for the proposed peace process to move forward. “The ULFA must communicate their demands, including release of jailed leaders, in black and white directly to the Centre for the peace process to proceed further,” the Union Home Secretary V.K. Duggal tells interlocutor Mamoni Raisom Goswami. Goswami says from New Delhi that the Union Home Secretary informs her that ULFA must make direct contact with the Government and place their demands instead of communicating through intermediaries. Only then can their demands be considered.

  • July 18: Troops of the Red Horn Division stationed at Dhubri neutralise a fake currency racket besides arresting two ULFA linkmen and recover one pistol and some live ammunition from Dingdinga village under Tamarhat police station limits in the Kokrajhar district.

  • July 16: A ULFA cadre, Pradip Das, is arrested from Hatigaon area in Guwahati city. Several incriminating documents and six batteries used in Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are recovered from his possession. Assam’s Director General of Police, Deepak Dutta, informs that, while the ULFA is planning a major attack in any of the four lower Assam districts in ‘retaliation’ to the killing of its cadres, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), intends to attack the Guwahati railway station soon. “The ULFA is planning a major attack in retaliation to the killing of its six cadres in any of the districts of Kamrup, Baska, Nalbari and Barpeta,” says the Director General of Police.

  • July 13: Meghalaya Police suspects that the ULFA leader Rubul Ali, who was killed in the July 11 encounter in Garo Hills, is a linkman of the Pakistani ISI. "The ULFA-ISI nexus has been going on for quite long time and it is suspected that the ISI has been providing assistance to the ULFA in term of arms, training and funds," said police sources.

  • July 12:Two kilograms of ivory worth over INR 100,000 are recovered from a ULFA linkman, Bolin Dutta, who was arrested by the Army Intelligence personnel at unspecified place under Dhola police station in the Tinsukia district. According to official sources, besides aiding the activities of the outfit, Dutta was also involved in smuggling forest produce from Paglam in Arunachal Pradesh. The ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group threatens to pull out of the peace process with the Union government, following the July 11 killing of six ULFA cadres in Assam and Meghalaya.

  • July 11: Four ULFA cadres, identified as Rubul Ali, Prabal Dutta, Rudra Barua and Dulu Kalita, are killed by the troops during an encounter at Tinfa village under Mendipathar police station in the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. While three ULFA cadres were arrested, a cache of arms and explosives, including one AK rifle, four grenades, pistol, several rounds of ammunition, along with INR 40,000 were recovered from the incident site. Two ULFA cadres, Pradip Rajbangshi and Mrinal Rajbangshi, are killed in an encounter with the SFs at Baglamari village in the Nalbari district. Two 9 mm pistols, three Chinese grenades, 8 rounds of live ammunition, a radio set and cash worth INR 30,000 were recovered from their possession.

  • July 7: Police arrests two militants of the ULFA and a linkman of the outfit from Birubari locality of the Guwahati city in connection with the outfit’s extortion demand of INR 15 Lakhs on the Reserve Bank of India regional director Amarendra Sahu. The arrested militants were identified as Mantu Bezbarua and Gautam Sarania alias Rahul Deka. Police also recovered a grenade form their possession.

  • July 3: The ULFA ‘serves’ an extortion note of Rupees 150 milion to the Regional Director of the Reserve Bank of India in Guwahati. The letter is signed, on June 25, by an ULFA ‘commander’, Hira Sarania, who is allegedly involved in several extortion acts in the past.

  • July 1: The ULFA expresses its willingness to hold ‘direct talks’ with the Union Government at the earliest.

  • June 26: Two ULFA cadres, Paban Gayan and Manaj Baruah, are arrested from Deopani under Bokajan police station.

  • June 23: A student of the Guwahati University, Rinku Basumatary, wounded in the June 9 ULFA triggered explosion at Machkhowa in Guwahati city, succumbs to his injuries.

  • June 16: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs objects to the ULFA's plea for releasing its five leaders. The Cabinet Committee on Security, while discussing the issue at New Delhi, is of the view that the outfit should give up violence, surrender arms and should adopt an honest approach to peace before such a step can be taken.

    A frontal organization of the ULFA, Assam Watch, is operating in the United Kingdom. Mukul Hazarika, is the co-ordinator of the Assam Watch. Intelligence sources say that Assam Watch sponsored ULFA's chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa and general secretary, Anup Chetia, to attend a meeting of the United Nations Sub-Commission's Working Group on Indigenous People at Geneva in July 1997, while Interpol had issued a Red Corner Alert notice against the top leadership of the outfit for its involvement in the abduction and killing of Sanjoy Ghose of the Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development- North East (AVARD-North East).

  • June 15: Four ULFA cadres, identified as Bijoy Kalita, Rudra Barua, Hemanta Kalita and Kamal Ahmed, in a letter sent to local media persons, say that they are planning to float a new outfit to continue their "revolution" under the leadership of one self-styled 'captain' of the outfit. They, quoting a letter reportedly written by the ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, say the outfit's chief is planning to liquidate them. They further said several ULFA leaders, including Bening Rava, Abhijit Deka and Nilu Chakravarty, who the outfit claims have gone missing following the Army's counter insurgency operations in Bhutan, were killed on Rajkhowa's orders.

    Assam Police says that following the formation of the ULFA - backed People's Consultative Group on September 8 in 2005, the ULFA militants have triggered off as many as 52 blasts, majority of those were in late January and early part of February and again from June 8 to 12 in 2006. The reports further said that at least 41 civilians are killed and 135 are injured in ULFA's violence since September 8, 2005. During the same period, the outfit attacked the security force personnel on 15 occasions in which six are killed, while 41 are injured. During the same period, the security forces are engaged in encounters with the ULFA cadres on 20 occasions, in which 21 militants are killed and 48 are arrested. The sources further pointed out that in the first five and half months of 2006, as many as 29 civilians are killed, as compared to the death of 20 civilians and injury of 78 in 2005. The fatality figure among the security personnel in ULFA's violence in 2005 is six.

  • June 14: A civilian, Monoj Gogoi, who was wounded in the June 12 blast triggered by the ULFA at Digboi town in the Tinsukia district, succumbs to his injuries.

    Two ULFA extortionists, Paresh Das and Moinul alias Islam, are arrested by the Guwahati city police during separate search operations from Basistha and Garigaon areas in the Kamrup district.

  • June 13: A ULFA cadre, identified as Phulen Nath alias Kamal Barman alias Pintu Das, is killed in an encounter with the police at Kamalnagar atop Narakasur Hill under Dispur police station in the Kamrup district. While two other militants manage to escape from the incident site, the owner of the residence, Bhaben Rabha, is arrested on charges of harbouring ULFA cadres. A cache of arms and explosives, including one unexploded grenade, 24 detonators, fuse wires, one 7.62-bore Pakistani-made pistol and four rounds of ammunition, are recovered from the encounter site. According to police sources, the slain militant is involved in the June-9 blast at Machkhowa in the Guwahati city in which five persons died.

    Assam's Director General of Police D. N. Dutt confirms that the ULFA is involved in all the recent blasts in the State, following the denial of the outfit of its involvement. He says, "All the inputs we have point to the fact that the militants belonging to the ULFA were behind the recent blasts. For a very long time, we had the inputs that the ULFA was planning to explode a series of bombs from June 9 to 11 and they started a day ahead."

  • June 11: A security force personnel, identified as Bircharan Singh, who is among the three injured in the ULFA's grenade attack on a patrolling vehicle at Makum in the Tinsukia district, succumbs to his injuries.

    Suspected ULFA cadres blow up a railway track between Borhat and Baruahnagar railway stations in the Sibsagar district. Rail links between Upper Assam and the rest of the country are snapped for several hours following the blast.

  • June 10: Suspected ULFA militants trigger two more blasts in the Guwahati city killing one person and injuring 19 others. Inspector-General of Police (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma informs that suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade targeting a police post at Bamunimaidam area in which two police personnel are injured. Another blast occurred under the Ganeshguri flyover close to the Dispur capital complex killing one person and wounding 17 others.

    The ULFA denies its hand in the six bomb blasts in which civilians are injured, but owns up three blasts on the oil and gas pipelines at Naharkatia, Digboi and Chabua. In a statement, ULFA chief Paresh Baruah claims the blasts in Guwahati, Dhubri, Mangaldoi, Haibargaon, Golokganj and Doomdooma are "masterminded by Inspector-General of Police (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma and the forces opposed to peace talks between the Centre and the outfit." Baruah says the attacks on the pipelines are carried out in protest against the tightening of security around oil installations, which is to "facilitate the plundering of Assam's natural resources."

  • June 9: At least five persons, including a 10-year-old boy and a woman, are killed and 16 persons wounded in a powerful explosion triggered by the ULFA at Machkowa vegetable market in the Guwahati city of Kamrup district. Senior Superintendent of Police Nitul Gogoi said that the bombs, believed to have been planted in a vegetable basket, have exploded at 4.20 pm at the wholesale vegetable market when it was at its busiest moment.

  • June 8:The ULFA triggers a series of grenade explosions at various parts of the State leaving at least 25 persons wounded. While six persons are injured in a blast at Haiborgaon in the Nagaon district, another is injured when militants trigger a blast at Islampur Chowk in the Mangaldoi district.

  • June 5: A civilian, Dilip Das, is shot dead by the ULFA cadres at Sonapur Chowk under Kamalpur police station in the Kamrup (rural) district. The militants were targeting a SULFA cadre, Narayan Das, in the incident.

  • May 23: A clandestine meeting of the ULFA leaders is held somewhere near Alipurduar in the Jaipalguri district of West Bengal at the end of May. Intelligence Bureau officials indicated that many ULFA cadres have reportedly landed at Siliguri.

  • May 21: Two ULFA militants, senior leader Bijay Kalita and linkman Subrata Paul, are arrested from Siliguri in the Jaipalguri district of West Bengal.

  • May 20: A senior engineer of the state-owned OIL is released after being abducted by unidentified terrorists a day earlier. An OIL spokesman said K. Mohan Rao, a drilling engineer, was abducted while he was going from the company headquarters at Duliajan to a remote installation.

  • May 18: The Union Government confirms that the outlawed ULFA has sent to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation a demand note of Rupees Five billion. The Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dinsha Patel, said in the Parliament that there have been four disruptive incidents by the ULFA resulting in minor damage to the property of ONGC in the recent past.

    An unidentified ULFA cadre was arrested from Siliguri in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.

  • May 17: Four ULFA cadres, including ‘commanding officer’ Mrinal Hazarika, Jagat Barua, Mahesh Gupta and Pradip, are arrested at Siliguri in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. Inspector-General of Police (North Bengal) K. L. Meena says that several documents, an active satellite telephone, two mobile phones with Assam Telecom Circle numbers, an improvised pistol with a few bullets, Rupees 20,370 in Indian currency and Rupees 13 in Nepali currency were seized from their possession.

  • May 14: An ULFA cadre, ‘corporal’ Puspa Borah alias Sanchar Chetia, who had surrendered along with a pistol, two magazines, 16 rounds of ammunition and a Chinese hand grenade, before the Superintendent of Police of the Udalguri district on May 13, is found dead inside the lock-up of the district police station. According to police sources, Puspa Borah committed suicide.

  • May 10: Five ULFA cadres, ‘sergeant major’ Jagadish Mahanta alias Rajesh Sarma, ‘corporal’  Ameer Hussain alias Raj Ahmed, Pradeep K. Barman alias Control, Dinesh Sarkar alias Mithun and Purno Roy alias Purni, surrender before Colonel M.K. Das and Additional Superintendent of Police Umar Ali at Dhubri district. They deposited an AK-47 rifle, three 9 mm revolvers and 45 rounds of ammunition.

  • May 9: Two SF personnel, Rubul Ali and Dhruba Borsaikia, are killed in an ambush by the ULFA at a place near the Borahibari railway station in Sivasagar district. Five persons including the former State Transport Minister and senior AGP leader Pradip Hazarika are wounded in the attack. Hazarika has figured in ULFA’s list of ‘conspirators’ in the ‘secret killings’, the outfit recently claims, that has taken place during the AGP regime. Twenty five empty shells of AK-47 ammunition are recovered from the incident site.

  • May 8: Unidentified militants shot at and wounded a SULFA cadre, Jayanta Maran, at his residence in Nalani in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 2: An unidentified ‘leader’ of the ULFA along with two Delhi-based sex workers, who were arrested from Guwahati in the Kamrup district, are remanded to ten days of police custody by a local court. Additional Police Chief of Guwahati Rajen Singh, while describing the use of sex workers by the ULFA as baits to extort and abduct businessmen in the State, said, "This is the latest modus operandi of the ULFA - luring businessmen with the help of call girls and then extorting money from them."

  • April 24: The Public Works Department chief engineer, Suren Das, who was abducted and later released by the ULFA, is in a stage of coma due to cerebral malaria. Das has started suffering from cerebral malaria while in captivity.

  • April 21: Unidentified assailants kill two surrendered ULFA militants, Lolit Moran and his wife Momi Moran, at Gotong village under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district. Both the low-rung ULFA cadres had surrendered to the army in 2004. Police sources said that a group ULFA militants led by Tedho Moran alias Rocket, who are active in the area, are suspected to be responsible for the killing.

  • April 8: Security forces arrest a linkman of the ULFA, Pradip Doley, from his house at Madhya Lakhipur under Jonai police station in the Dhemaji district. An AK-56 Rifle, 160 rounds of ammunition, two magazines and a motorcycle are recovered from his residence. Two of his accomplices, however, manage to escape.

  • April 4: An ULFA militant, Bhubaneswar Haloi, surrenders before the army personnel near Bihuguri in the Sonitpur district.

  • April 1: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the process initiated by the Union Government to restore peace in Assam will be expedited, but rules out talks with the ULFA on the "sovereignty" issue. Dr. Singh, who arrived in Assam on a two-day election campaign, told a press conference in Guwahati that negotiations would be held within the constitutional framework. "The ULFA may raise the issue during talks but that does not mean all issues are open to negotiation," he says. "Doors will be open to all those who shun violence. Two rounds of talks have been held with certain groups [the discussion with the ULFA-formed People's Consultative Group] and we will accelerate the peace process," he added.

  • March 31: Three ULFA cadres along with one KLNLF activist surrendered before the army at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district. ULFA cadres, Indra Prasad Barua, Lakhi Prashad Nath alias Raj Deka and Parag Hazarika, also deposited an AK 47 rifle, two magazines, 67 rounds of cartridges and four hand grenades.

  • March 31: The ULFA chief, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an electronic message calls on the people of Assam not to vote for any party that has not made any commitment on resolving the “Asom-India political conflict”. He said, “The people should only vote for politics that would ensure sovereignty for Asom.”

  • March 29: The police recover four grenades, an AK series rifle, 30 rounds of live ammunition, a magazine, a 9-V battery, some electronic gadgets and incriminating documents following an encounter with suspected ULFA militants at Satakona under Dudhnoi police station in the Goalpara district. The militants, however, managed to escape and police subsequently arrested two linkmen of the outfit, Sanjit Barsund and Lokesh Sangma.

  • March 28: Suspected ULFA cadres abduct Abhisek Agarwal, the 25-year-old son of a biscuit factory-owner, in the Tinsukia district after the businessman failed to meet a deadline for payment of extortion money. The outfit has reportedly launched a massive extortion drive in Upper Assam, primarily in the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts, targeting businessman and Government employees.

  • March 18: A woman, identified as S. Begum, is killed and 10 persons are injured in a ULFA triggered bomb blast near the railway track at the Bamunimaidan rail yard in Guwahati.

  • March 17: A SULFA cadre, identified as Binod Baishya alias Jit Kalita, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Ghograpar in the Nalbari district.

  • March 9: The Guwahati city police put several businessmen in the city under their scanner accusing them of contributing large amounts to the ULFA. Police sources say that the businessmen are paying the outfit via electronic money transfer facility. A senior police official says that "During police questioning, the businessmen admitted they had transferred money to towns such as Hissar in Haryana and Anand in Gujarat after the ULFA issued them instructions." The official also says the ULFA has stepped up their extortion drive in the city after the peace process between the Centre and the PCG begins in 2005. The outfit has collected at least Rupees 30 lakh from the Dispur police division area alone. He further says, "The amount will be much higher if the figures of all the four police divisions are added up."

  • March 7: Mediator Indira Goswami said that the third round of talks between the ULFA-constituted PCG and Union Government will be held only after the Legislative Assembly elections in Assam slated for April 3 and 10.

  • February 28: Suspected ULFA cadres trigger a blast at the BG Yard near Bamunimaidan in Guwahati city killing one civilian and injuring five others, including a woman.

  • February 25: A joint army-police team arrests a ULFA cadre, Uday Bharali, from Taranigaon under Sadiya police station in the Tinsukia district. A modified AK-47 rifle, 65 live ammunitions, a radio set and incriminating documents are recovered from his possession.

  • February 21: Armed ULFA militants assault four villagers and abduct an AGP activist, Brikudhar Doley, from his residence at Kemi-Jelom village under Poba Reserve Forest in the Dhemaji district recently.

  • February 13: Normal life is affected in the State following a 12-hour general strike called by the ULFA to protest against the killing of nine persons in police firing and death of Ajit Mahanta during Army custody at Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district. There are, however, no reports of any untoward incident from any part of the State.

  • February 10: Police arrest five hardcore ULFA militants from different parts of the Guwahati city for their alleged involvement in a series of grenade attacks in the run-up to the Republic Day celebrations on January 26. One M-20 pistol, an Austria-made grenade, 13 rounds of ammunition and two magazines are recovered from the arrested who were identified as Bubul Deka alias Gajen Deka alias Mansur Ali, Chandan Baishya alias Prabin Thakuria, Mohammad Piyar Hussain, Abdul Salam alias Hamid and Ratan Sarkar.

  • February 10: Eight civilians and a SF are killed during clashes between the villagers and SFs following the alleged custodial death of a suspected United ULFA militant at Kakopathar in upper Assam's Tinsukia district. The ULFA cadre, whom the villagers describe as a civilian, was detained by the army on February 6 and his dead body was subsequently recovered.

  • February 7: The Union Government and the PCG agree, during a meeting at New Delhi, on a series of CBMs to bring the ULFA to the negotiation table. A joint statement said that the Government of India has agreed to examine and initiate a series of CBMs with regard to human rights violations and to examine the release of detained ULFA leaders in consultation with the State Government.

  • February 7: Two ULFA militants, Swapan Roy and Sabed Ali alias Hasinur, surrender before the BSF authorities at Azadnagar in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal. The duo, hailing from Rupasi village under Golakganj police station in Assam’s Dhubri district, deposit two improvised explosive devices.

  • February 1: Counter insurgency targeting ULFA is called off by Army in the outfit’s chief Paresh Baruah’s native village, Jeraigaon, in the Dibrugarh district following demands by the villagers. However, army authorities maintain that the operation is “routine in nature” and is called off only because “the security think tank felt it had served its purpose”.

  • February 1: Surrendered ULFA cadre, Raju Chakraborty, is injured when a group of unidentified assailants shoot at him at Salkocha under Chapar police station in the Dhubri district.

  • January 24: A suspected ULFA militant is killed and three others are injured in an explosion in the Ganeshguri locality of Guwahati city. Police sources said that the ULFA militant, Munin Das hailing from Ghograpar in the Nalbari district, was carrying the explosive and traveling on foot to avoid the intensified checking of vehicles by the security forces.

  • January 24: An IED is detonated by suspected ULFA cadres at Chhaygaon circle office precincts causing no casualty.

    An ULFA cadre, Bhogeswar alias Debojit Bora, was arrested from Nagabat Tinali under Borholla police station in the Jorhat district. Bora is identified as a ‘lance corporal’ in the ‘28th battalion’ of the outfit.

  • January 23: ULFA militants exploded a grenade near the nail factory at Bengenakhowa in the Golaghat district.

  • January 23: ULFA militants exploded a hand grenade at Mayong police station in the Morigaon district.

  • January 22: ULFA cadres lobbed a grenade targeting SF personnel near Gauhati Commerce College in the Guwahati city injuring five SF personnel.

  • January 22: ULFA activists hurled a grenade in front of the Assam Police Reserve at AT Road in the Guwahati city killing a civilian.

  • January 22: ULFA militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED), planted in a requisitioned bus, injuring three police personnel in Guwahati city.

  • January 22: One police personnel is killed and five others sustain injuries in an encounter with ULFA cadres at Ewarlangtha Gorgaon along the Assam-Nagaland border in the Golaghat district.

  • January 22: ULFA triggers a blast in the precincts of the Assam State Transport Corporation building in Jorhat injuring a civilian.

  • January 22: Gas pipelines at Chetiapathar under Chabua police station and Bokulia Chariali under Duliajan police station are blown up by the ULFA.

  • January 22: A gas pipeline, running through Lengri tea estate under Tengakhat police station in the Dibrugarh district, is blown up by the ULFA.

  • January 22: ULFA cadres shot dead a petrol pump owner at Sadiya township in the Tinsukia district.

  • January 22: ULFA militants lobbed a grenade at a police patrol team on the Sessa bridge in the Dibrugarh district injuring four police personnel.

  • January 22: ULFA cadres blew up a gas pipeline near Bherbheri under Bordubi police station.

  • January 22: Guwahati city police arrests seven ULFA cadres from the outskirts of the city and also recovered a Chinese grenade from their possession.

  • January 21: ULFA militants blew up a power tower of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation at Bhoju in the Sibsagar district.

  • January 21: ULFA militants blew up a transformer at Konwar Gaon near Lakhimpur.

  • January 21: Three SF personnel are wounded when ULFA cadres blew up a power transformer at Hindugaon Tiniali.

  • January 21: A gas pipeline is blown up by the ULFA at Mahmora Silgrant under Namrup police station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • January 21: ULFA cadres shot dead a trader, Iswar Chand Jain, at Sonari in the Sibsagar district.

  • January 21: ULFA cadres triggered a blast on pipelines of the Oil India Ltd inside Rangali Reserve Forest under Kakatibari police station in the Sibsagar district.

  • January 20: Ten persons, including eight personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), are injured in a grenade attack by the ULFA at the entrance of the Guwahati Refinery at Noonmati in Guwahati city.

  • January 16: A ULFA militant is killed in an encounter with the police at Santipur in the Tinsukia district.

  • January 15: Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) intimates the Assam Government of an extortion letter served by the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA on its corporate office at Nazira in the Sibsagar district demanding Rupees 5000 million.

  • January 12: Suspected ULFA militants attack a Royal Bhutanese Army patrol and kill an army guide near village Gerwa in the southern district of Samdrup Jongkhar of Bhutan bordering Assam.

  • January 2: ULFA ‘chairman’, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in the outfit’s mouthpiece Freedom reacting to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s announcement of a safe passage for the outfit’s cadres during the Bihu festivities said that the Union Government is playing a ‘dangerous game’ by “talking of peace and unleashing the armed forces on its unsuspecting cadre at the same time.”

  • January 1: Arabinda Rajkhowa rules out holding direct peace talks with New Delhi unless the Government released some of their senior jailed leaders.

2005

  • December 30: SULFA cadre, Biren Neog, is killed in police firing at Digboi in the Tinsukia district.

  • December 27: Officer-in-charge of the Nelli outpost and a ULFA cadre are killed in an encounter at Durapani under Jagiroad police station in the Morigaon district.

  • December 22: Police dismantles a bomb-making factory of the ULFA at Pushpawan village under Merapani police station in the Golaghat district.

  • December 16: SULFA cadre Manikut Kalita is killed by the ULFA at Dipila Chowk, about 18 kilometers away from Mangaldoi town.

  • November 18: Two ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the Army at Medhipara village under Bilasipara police station in Dhubri district.

  • November 18: A SULFA cadre, Parikhit Hazarika, abducted earlier by an unidentified group on November 17, is found with stab injuries at the Digboi-Pengeri road in the Tinsukia district. Hazarika succumbs to his injuries at the district civil hospital.

  • November 6: Three suspected ULFA cadres, Buten Gogoi, Pradip Gohain and Divyajyoti Gohain, are arrested from Rojabari under Chabua police station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • November 4: Two unidentified ULFA militants are killed by the Army at Tekelipathar under Pengeri police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • November 1: The ULFA, in its fortnightly newsletter Freedom, greets the People’s Consultative Group for starting the peace process with the Centre and raising the matter of sovereignty in the meeting.

  • October 27: A ULFA cadre, ‘Lance corporal’ Meena Bokolial alias Meena Gogoi of the outfit’s ‘28th battalion’ and three other women cadres, Binita Hazarika, Monalisa Moran and Khyanmanti Moran, are arrested by the Army at Dighalipathar in the Philobari area of Tinsukia district.

  • October 26: A round of negotiations between the Union Government and the ULFA-backed People’s Consultative Group (PCG) is held in New Delhi.

  • October 25: Two ULFA terrorists, Chand Barman alias Ritesh Saud and Surat Deka alias Rupjyoti, are killed by the police at Mowamari Chapori in the Darrang district.

  • October 25: Security forces arrest Nripen Sarma, chairperson of a women’s organisation Lovita, along with two other members from the organization’s office at Chayygaon in the Kamrup district on charges of having a nexus with the ULFA.

  • October 24: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a hotel employee, Pramode Singh, at Khowang in the Dibrugarh district for non-payment of extortion money.

  • October 7: A ULFA cadre, Dulu Sonowal, is shot dead during an encounter with the SFs at Jokai Sohikota Tepuguri village in the Dibrugarh district.

  • October 1: ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom, says that it would not start any negotiations with the Government till the time Army operations against the outfit are completely stopped.

  • September 29: The ULFA sends a formal letter informing the Prime Minister's Office of the formation of the People's Consultative Group.

  • September 26: Two ULFA terrorists, Nilim Kumar and Hiren Dohotia, are killed by the Army at Dibru-Saikhowa in the Tinsukia district.

  • September 23: A ULFA cadre, identified as Azad Barua alias Swadhin Ray, is arrested from a flat in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

  • September 20: The Army, during its ongoing operations in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest, kills a ULFA 'battalion commander', Achintya Saikia, and one of his woman associates in an encounter near Ajuka village.

  • September 19: Biju Chakravarti alias Shailen Sharma, a senior ULFA cadre, is arrested along with his wife from a locality near Amber Fort in Jaipur, capital city of Rajasthan.

  • September 14: ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a press statement, says 12 of the outfit's cadres have been killed in the army operations in the Dibru-Saikhowa forests. Army authorities, however, deny this.

  • September 8: ULFA calls for a dawn-to-dusk general strike in protest against “Government's negligence towards the treatment of ULFA leader Robin Handique leading to his death.”

  • September 8: ULFA announces a 10-member people's consultative group headed by mediator Indira Goswami to enter into a dialogue with the Union Government.

  • August 31: Robin Handique, 'Political Advisor' of the ULFA, dies at Kanaklata Civil Hospital following kidney failure.

  • August 30: Two ULFA terrorists shoot dead a school-teacher, Sukleswar Medhi, in front of the Balitara High School in Nalbari district. A ULFA terrorist is killed in the subsequent army operation in the same area.

  • August 30: Army launches an anti-insurgency operation in the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest in Tinsukia district in search of ULFA terrorists, Prabal Neog, Jiten Dutta and A. Saikia of the '28th battalion'.

  • August 27: One person is killed and 14 others sustain injuries when ULFA cadres hurled two grenades at a police party on the national highway at Changsari in the Kamrup district.

  • August 22: C. Bora, a doctor, and two nurses are arrested from Rupaisiding in the Tinsukia district for alleged nexus with the ULFA. The doctor confesses of having treated several ULFA cadres.

  • August 16: ULFA militants shot dead a civilian at Khamti Mohang village under the Bordumsa Police Station limits.

  • August 11: Six ULFA collaborators are arrested from the Charigaon and Koronga areas of Jorhat district.

  • August 9: An activist of the human rights organisation, Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti, Benudhar Hazarika, is arrested from Abhayapuri village under Borholla police station in the Jorhat district for nexus with the ULFA.

  • August 7: Four persons are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in an explosion triggered by the ULFA at a bus stand at Boko in the Kamrup district.

  • August 7: ULFA carries out a series of explosions targeting army installations, oil and gas pipelines, electric and telephone exchanges in the Nalbari, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia and Lakhimpur districts.

  • July 31: ULFA asks politicians from New Delhi to keep away from campaigning in the Legislative Assembly elections in early 2006. The outfit's chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, in an e-mail to the local media says, “The practice of inviting leaders of national parties to the state, as if they were leaders from Assam, and listening to their speeches must be stopped immediately.”

  • July 27: A ULFA terrorist and one Army personnel are killed in an encounter at the 12-Mile area inside Tinkupani reserve forest under Lekhapani police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 26: Three ULFA cadres are killed and another sustains injuries in an encounter with the Army personnel between Jagun and Jairampur in the Sibsagar district.

  • July 18: Guwahati city police arrests four ULFA linkmen from various parts of the city.

  • July 14: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion targeting a security forces’ vehicle inside the Duramara Reserve Forest area under Pengeri Police Station in Tinsukia district.

  • July 11: ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah, in a letter to the Prime Minister, threatens to ‘reconsider’ the option of negotiating with the Government if the dialogue process does not focus on sovereignty for the State. The outfit further says that any dialogue process could begin only after the release of 10 of its leaders currently held in various jails in India, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

  • June 26: Twelve persons, including six CRPF personnel, are injured in an IED explosion triggered by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Nine Mile area of Guwahati city. Two persons succumb to their injuries subsequently.

  • June 24: A police officer, Puna Gogoi, is killed by the ULFA at Talap Bazaar in the Tinsukia district.

  • June 22: Mojammel Haque, a ULFA 'commander', is arrested from a hideout at Baxirhat in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal.

  • June 22: Two unidentified ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter with the police at Jonai in the Dhemaji district.

  • June 20: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger a powerful explosion at the State Secretariat complex in the capital Dispur.

  • June 19: Four ULFA terrorists and one soldier are killed during two encounters in the Nalbari district.

  • June 16: Four ULFA terrorists, including three woman cadres, are killed in an encounter with the police at Doloni village under Khowang Police Station in the Dibrugarh district.

  • June 16: Ten ULFA cadres, including ‘sergeant major’ Amit Chandra Mandal, surrender before the Army in Dhubri along with some arms and ammunition.

  • June 16: Ten ULFA cadres, including ‘sergeant major’ Amit Chandra Mandal, surrender before the Army in Dhubri along with some arms and ammunition.

  • June 9: An hotelier in Guwahati city, Hemendra Dutta Choudhury, is arrested for alleged nexus with the ULFA.

  • June 7: Fourteen terrorists belonging to different militant outfits, including the ULFA, surrender before authorities at the Misa Army camp.

  • June 5: Arms and ammunition belonging to the ULFA’s ‘109 battalion’ are recovered from the Bamundanga area of Goalpara district.

  • June 6: A woman, identified as Suchitra Rai, is arrested from Basugaon in the Kokrajhar district for alleged links with the ULFA.

  • June 5: Two ULFA terrorists belonging to the outfit’s '28th battalion', identified as Apurba Barua and Pawan Moran, are killed during an encounter with the army personnel at Jokaichowkgaon under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • June 5: Police in Guwahati arrest Tapan Deka, a junior engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway, and his daughter from the Jalukbari locality for suspected links with the ULFA.

  • June 4: Suspected ULFA terrorists explode a bomb beneath a microwave tower at Gutanagar.

  • June 1: Three ULFA terrorists surrender before the Army authorities at Panbari in the Dhubri district.

  • May 30: ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah asks for the release of four of the outfit’s leaders before commencement of talks with the Union Government.

  • May 27: An IED explosion by the ULFA damages the wooden bridge at Maithong on the National Highway No. 52, connecting the eastern parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

  • May 26: ULFA triggers IED explosions in the Choto Dirak and Dirak Chariali areas near Kakopathar in Tinsukia district damaging the electric transformers.

  • May 26: Suspected ULFA cadres kill a leader of the Congress party, Amrit Dutta, at the Dhekorgorah Block office under Pulibor police station in Jorhat district.

  • May 26: Three security force (SF) personnel are wounded in an explosion triggered by the ULFA targeting an army vehicle at Digboi-Pengeri road in the Dibrugarh district.

  • May 25: A hardcore ULFA cadre, Ashanta Rajguru alias Raj Baishya, is arrested from an unspecified location on the Assam-Meghalaya border.

  • May 24: A civilian is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists at Dirakmukh under Dhola police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • May 24: Four ULFA collaborators are arrested from the Noonmati police station area in Guwahati and Rongjuli police station area in Goalpara.

  • May 23: Three persons, including one SF personnel, are injured as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an IED explosion in the Noonmati locality of Guwahati city.

  • May 21: A college teacher and a freelance journalist are arrested from Bilasipara in the Dubri district and Panbazaar in Kamrup district respectively for alleged links with the ULFA and involvement in several explosions in Guwahati.

  • May 20: Four ULFA terrorists are arrested along with a unspecified number of IEDs from Kumarikata in the Baska district.

  • May 20: Suspected ULFA cadres trigger an IED explosion partially damaging a bridge at Sadiya in the Dibrugarh district.

  • May 20: One Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel is killed and four others sustain injuries during an ambush by the ULFA at Borhat under Sonari subdivision in the Sibsagar district.

  • May 14: Two ULFA cadres, Debajit Amche and Palesh Malang, are arrested from the Rangfang gaon area in Karbi Anglong district.

  • May 14: Police recover two universal machine guns, three magazines and 60 rounds from an ULFA hideout at Masuk in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

  • May 9: Three ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter with the Army at Kothalguri in the Dibrugarh district.

  • May 8: Army personnel kill two ULFA cadres, identified as Ugra Barman and Uddipta Bharali, at Dhanbil in the Nalbari district.

  • April 27: Two ULFA terrorists are arrested from Baruabamungaon in the Golaghat district.

  • April 24: Six ULFA cadres, including a woman ‘sergeant major’, are arrested at Sesupani in the Tinsukia district.

  • April 18: Four ULFA terrorists are arrested during two separate operations at Baichara village and Jail Road area in the Nalbari district.

  • April 12: Sixteen ULFA cadres surrender before the General Officer Commanding of the 2 Mountain Division at Laipuli in the Tinsukia district.

  • April 2: A ULFA cadre is killed by the Guwahati City Police during an encounter at Panjabari-Bagharbori Napara area under Dispur police station limits.

  • April 1: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an explosion at Kharbilpar village under Barama police station in the Baska district.

  • April 1: ULFA carries out several explosions in Guwahati, Dhemaji and Tinsukia targeting security forces and oil pipelines and injure more than 15 persons.

  • March 27: Four ULFA terrorists, including hardcore cadre Khagen Boruah alias Rana Gohain, surrender before the Sivasagar district police.

  • March 24: Police arrests three ULFA terrorists from the residence of an advocate near the Assam Engineering College in Guwahati.

  • March 16: A suspected ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Misa Hatkhola under Khairabari police station limits in the Darrang district.

  • March 16: Diganta Baruah alias Kesar Jyoti Saikia, ‘second commander’ of the ULFA’s ‘Enigma group’ and a bodyguard of Paresh Baruah, are killed during an encounter at Nikhira village under Khairabari police station in the Udalguri district.

  • March 15: Six people are injured during an explosion suspected to have been triggered by the ULFA at Bihpuria in the Lakhimpur district.

  • March 14: Hiten Thakuria, a ULFA terrorist, is killed in an encounter with the Army at Ghasbari village in the Dhubri district.

  • March 12: Suspected ULFA terrorist, Parag Das, is killed during an encounter with the police in the Lokhra area of Guwahati city.

  • March 11: One person is killed and nine others are wounded as ULFA terrorists lob a grenade targeting a police vehicle in front of the headquarters of the Congress party in Guwahati city.

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

  • March 9: One police personnel is killed and seven others sustain injuries as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger several bomb explosions across the Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Dhubri and Sivasagar districts.

  • March 2: Two ULFA terrorists, Biren Gogoi and Naren Gogoi, are arrested from Lengeri Bamunbari No. 2 village in Dibrugarh district.

  • February 28: Two ULFA terrorists, including Suman Barua alias Ruby Bhuyan, editor of the outfit’s mouthpiece Freedom, and Chandan Borah, a bomb expert believed to be trained in Pakistan, surrender before the Assam Police in Guwahati.

  • February 26: Three ULFA terrorists, identified as ‘lance corporal of Sivasagar’ Amar Mili, Pallav Kakoti alias Ban Moran and Nasang Rangpi, are killed in an encounter with Army personnel at Kheroni Hatimura under Bordumsa police station on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

  • February 20, 2005: Suspected ULFA cadres hurl a grenade at a grocery shop located at Kakopathar Tiniali under Kakopathar police station in Tinsukia district injuring the owner and four persons.

  • February 10: A ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter with the Army personnel at Khalenapara under Barama police station in the Baska district.

  • February 8: ULFA terrorists explode a bomb at Kardaiguri village in the Tinsukia District targeting the Army personnel on patrol. However, no loss of life or injury is reported.

  • February 7: A ULFA cadre is killed during an encounter with the Army personnel at Jagun Meo under Lekhapani police station in the Tinsukia District.

  • February 7: ULFA terrorists explode a grenade targeting a shop at Rupai Chaiding under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • January 26: A ULFA cadre is killed during an encounter with the Army at Amguri under Lakhpur police station in Goalpara district.

  • January 26: Two persons are seriously injured as ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion near Bamunimaidan in Guwahati City.

  • January 26: ULFA cadres explode a bomb under a culvert at Bongaigaon.

  • January 26: ULFA cadres explode two bombs near the Judges' field in Guwahati City targeting the Republic Day celebrations. Three persons, including a police officer, are injured in the second explosion.

  • January 25: ULFA terrorists lob a grenade near Railway Gate No.3 at Maligaon in Guwahati City.

  • January 24: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger a grenade blast at Ganesguri in the capital Guwahati injuring seven persons.

  • January 23: ULFA activists hurl a grenade targeting the outer barricade of Golaghat Jail in Golaghat district.

  • January 20: ULFA terrorists explode a bomb targeting a portion of a gas pipe line at Sarupathar Bengaligaon under Chabua police station in Dibrugarh district.

  • January 19: ULFA cadres hurl a bomb at Mangaldoi police station compound in the Darrang district resulting in injuries to a police personnel.

  • January 19: ULFA terrorists hurl a grenade at Jonai police station in the Dhemaji district.

  • January 19: An Electric Tower located at Toklai tea estate in the Jorhat district is damaged due to an explosion triggered by the ULFA.

  • January 19: One person is killed and six others sustain injuries during a bomb blast triggered by suspected ULFA terrorists at Boxirhat under Golokganj police station in the Dhubri district.

  • January 15: An ULFA terrorist, Ajit Deka, is killed in an encounter at Gandhibari village under Tamulpur Police Station in the Nalbari district.

  • January 11: Fourteen civilians, including a nine-year-old girl and four women, are injured when suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion at the Marwaripatty area of Jorhat town.

  • January 8: A surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre, Ashok Das, is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in the Barama town of Nalbari district.

2004

  • December 30: Security forces’ arrest two ULFA terrorists, Jayanta Gaon and Arup Dutta, suspected to have been involved in the improvised explosive device blast at the Jalukonibari police outpost on December 24, from an unspecified place in Jorhat district.

  • December 28: ULFA terrorist, Dipak Das, is killed during an encounter with the Army at Aagsia village in the Kamrup district.

  • December 27: Two ULFA cadres, Narak Rabha and Dipak Rabha, surrender before the police at Goalpara.

  • December 26: Three ULFA terrorists are killed following an encounter with the police at Mornoi Garchouk along the Assam-Nagaland border in the Jorhat district.

  • December 24: Unidentified ULFA terrorists hurl a grenade targeting the Janukoni police outpost under Titabor police station in the Jorhat district.

  • December 22: Assam Police kill a ULFA cadre, Ujjal Roy alias Aliul Islam, at Bhaibazar in the Dhubri district.

  • December 18: Six persons are injured as suspected ULFA terrorists lob a grenade targeting a vehicle in the Noonmati area of Guwahati city.

  • December 17: In an e-mail message, ‘Chairman’ of the ULFA, Arabinda Rajkhowa, states that the outfit’s ‘commander-in-chief’, Paresh Baruah, has fallen ill and is being shifted to a safe location for surgery.

  • December 16: Medhi, a ‘sergeant major’, of the ULFA surrenders before the troops at Panbari in the Dhubri district.

  • December 16: One person is killed and 12 others sustain injuries when suspected ULFA terrorists lob a grenade in the Paltan Bazaar area of Guwahati city.

  • December 15: ULFA terrorists hurl a grenade targeting a police team and injure nine persons at Silapathar in the Dhemaji district.

  • December 15: ULFA terrorists lob a grenade at a CRPF patrol party at Sadiya Bazaar in the Tinsukia district.

  • December 14: Two persons are killed and 26 others sustain injuries when a timer explosive device, planted by ULFA terrorists, explodes at Maya Bazaar in Morigaon town.

  • December 14: A timer device explodes opposite the Haiborgaon police station in Nagaon town killing one person and injuring 17 others.

  • December 14: A CRPF personnel and a civilian are injured when unidentified ULFA terrorists lob a grenade near a cinema hall in Guwahati city.

  • December 14: Two army personnel are wounded in a bomb blast by ULFA terrorists near the Guwahati railway station.

  • December 14: ULFA detonates a bomb blast targeting a rural telephone exchange at Kakojan in the Tinsukia district.

  • December 13: Two police personnel are killed and eight others sustain injuries in two explosions engineered by the ULFA in front of the Hatigaon police outpost in Guwahati city.

  • December 10: Two hardcore ULFA terrorists, Raju Gogoi, an explosive expert and ‘major’ Jyotish Nath, surrender at Panbari in the Dhubri district and the district headquarters of Sibsagar district.

  • December 9: An unidentified ULFA terrorist is killed during an encounter with the Army at Merkuchi village in the Nalbari district.

  • December 9: ULFA rejects the invitation from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for peace talks. Talking to media houses in Guwahati over telephone, the ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’, Paresh Barua states that the PMO letter sent through noted writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami was ‘self-contradictory and confusing’.

  • December 8: The Nazira Police arrest Bijuli Devi, wife of ULFA ‘second lieutenant’ Sujit Mohan, commander of ‘B’ camp at Myanmar with her two-year-old child from an unspecified place in the Sibsagar district.

  • December 5: Two hardcore ULFA terrorists, ‘second lieutenant’ of the outfit’s ‘109 Battalion’, Rubul Ali and ‘lieutenant’ of the same battalion, Subhash Sharma, are killed in an encounter with the army at Kumarbari in the Kamrup district.

  • December 5: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter with the army personnel at Kumarbari under Palashbari police station in Kamrup district.

  • December 4: Three militants belonging to the ULFA including a woman cadre surrender to the army authorities in Dibrugarh.

  • December 3: The Sentinel quoting police sources reports that ULFA is planning a major offensive in Dhemaji district and 20 hardcore cadres of the outfit trained in the Kachin area of Myanmar are trying to sneak into the district.

  • November 29: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion at an unspecified place in Tinsukia district damaging two electric poles.

  • November 29: ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’, Paresh Barua claims that at least 150 ULFA cadres have been working in various security force establishments in the country. In an interview to the Sentinel Baruah says, "As the Indian security forces have sneaked in their members into our organisation, we are also adopting a similar policy."

  • November 27: Three ULFA terrorists including a woman cadre and a doctor working for the outfit are arrested from Tengapukhuri under Mathurapur police station limits in Sibsagar district.

  • November 27: ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, in a press statement, demands a plebiscite on the issue of sovereignty of Assam. He assures that the outfit would follow the verdict of the plebiscite and urged the Government of India to do the same.

  • November 26: Three ULFA terrorists surrender before the Tinsukia district administration at Tinsukia.

  • November 25: ULFA terrorist Nomal Gogoi is killed and another terrorist is arrested following an encounter at Dhingchapari near Sadia in Dibrugarh district.

  • November 25: ULFA, on the eve of the ‘protest day’, triggers a series of explosions in different parts of the State injuring six persons.

  • November 23: A ULFA terrorist, Biswajit Bora and three of his aides are arrested by the security forces following an encounter at Maskhowa under Deberapar police station in Jorhat district.

  • November 22: Two ULFA terrorists, Praneshware Rabha and Bokul Rajkhowa, are killed in an encounter with the army at an unspecified place along the Assam-Meghalaya border in Goalpara district.

  • November 21: Two ULFA terrorists, a ‘general secretary’ of the Dhubri district unit, Atul Baruah alias Arabinda Nath and Sushen Bepari, a ‘lieutenant’ in the outfit’s ‘central communication’, surrender before the Dhubri Superintendent of Police at Dhubri.

  • November 19: Three ULFA terrorists, belonging to its ‘Enigma-B group" including a woman cadre surrender before the army and police authorities at Tamulpur in Nalbari district.

  • November 18: In an e-mail message to the local media, ULFA’s ‘chairman’, Arabinda Rajkhowa, expresses willingness to begin a peace dialogue with the Government of India, provided the outfit is formally invited. He reiterates that no discussion would be possible without the outfit’s demand for sovereignty on the agenda and described the issue as "a right of the people of Assam" and not a "mere demand by his organization".

  • November 16: Talking to The Sentinel over the phone, the ULFA’s ‘commander-in-chief’, Paresh Barua make it clear that any talks with the Central government must have ‘sovereignty’ as the core issue to make it a meaningful exercise.

  • November 15: A ULFA terrorist, Jayanto Moran alias Jotin surrender before the army authorities in Tinsukia on November 15.

  • November 15: ULFA terrorist Amal Barua alias Jiban Sarma killed in an encounter at Milanpur village in Golaghat district.

  • November 14: ULFA terrorist, Prakash Boro alias Mukti Kachari arrested subsequent to an encounter at Jagiroad in Morigaon district.

  • November 10: Six ULFA cadres surrender before the Army at Missa in Nagaon district.

  • November 9: ULFA ‘second lieutenant’, Tulu Bora killed following a gun battle with the troops of Red Horns Division at Chiramoga in Goalpara distinct.

  • November 8: An ULFA terrorist Manas Das alias Mridul killed near Nalbari town.

  • November 4: Self-styled ‘second lieutenant' of the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA, Simanta Saikia alias Simanta Chinese along with his associate, Nijut Chetia surrender at the Laipuli Army camp in Tinsukia district along with an AK-56 rifle and ammunition.

  • November 1: An army personnel is killed following an encounter with the ULFA terrorists at Lakhrakhan under Sepakhati police station in Sibsagar district.

  • October 30: ULFA threatens to target Congress ministers, MLAs and other district and local-level leaders of the party to avenge the killing of five cadres of the outfit in Lakhimpur district on October 29 by the security forces.

  • October 29: Five ULFA terrorists, members of the outfit’s ‘Action Group’, are killed in an encounter with the security forces at Kasojuli village under Laluk police station limits in Lakhimpur district.

  • October 29: 13 ULFA terrorists, including a women cadre surrender before the police at Dibrugarh along with an AK-56 rifle, a .56 pistol, a wireless set and several rounds of ammunition.

  • October 27: Eight ULFA cadres surrender before the district administration at Sibsagar along with an AK-56 rifle, one hand grenade, one gun, magazines, live cartridges and a wireless set.

  • October 19: Troops of the Army’s Red Horn division arrests the ‘commander’ of the ULFA’s Bongaigaon unit, Pulak Bharali, alias Uday Das from Utamar village in Dhubri district.

  • October 12: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill two civilians at Mridongpara in Tinsukia district.

  • October 3: Two persons including a six-year-old boy were injured as ULFA terrorists open fire at a weekly market at Gossaigaon in the Kokrajhar district.

  • October 3: ULFA terrorists blow up a gas pipeline near Borhat Tea Estate in the Sibsagar district disrupting supply of gas to several tea factories of Upper Assam.

  • October 3: Seven army personnel were injured in a grenade attack by ULFA terrorists at a bus carrying them at Medongpara Dhola Road under Doomdooma police station in the Tinsukia district.

  • October 2: Suspected NDFB and ULFA terrorists trigger a series of bomb blasts and open indiscriminate firing at various places in lower Assam killing at least 24 people and wounding over 40.

  • September 30: Assam police arrests two ULFA terrorists including a "bomb expert" identified as Mihir Chetia, from Halwating Tea Estate along the Assam-Nagaland border in the Sibsagar district.

  • September 29: ULFA terrorist Lohit Chandra Roy alias Akon Hazong, killed in an encounter with the Assam Police at Bidyapur Rabhapara in Bongaigaon district.

  • September 23: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with the troops at Nayapara under Krishnai police station in Goalpara district.

  • September 22: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with the army personnel at Singimari under Palasbari police station in Kamrup district.

  • September 21: ULFA terrorists kill a civilian at Rashigaon in Bongaigaon district.

  • September 15: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with the security forces at Khilakimari village under Golokganj police station in Dhubri district.

  • September 12: Two ULFA terrorists, including a self-styled lieutenant, Rakta Cheleng, are killed in an encounter at Mulong Pahar under Ledo police station in Tinsukia district.

  • September 7: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Balatarigaon in Barpeta district.

  • August 29: Two army personnel are killed in an IED explosion by suspected ULFA terrorists at Shantipara-Sakumari in Kamrup district.

  • August 27: 47 ULFA cadres surrender at the Assam Rifles camp at Chardwar in Sonitpur district.

  • August 26: ULFA terrorists trigger a series of bomb blasts in different districts of Assam, killing six persons and injuring 80 others.

  • August 25: One person is killed and 10 others, including two police personnel, are injured in a grenade attack by ULFA terrorists in front of a movie theatre at Dibrugarh town.

  • August 25: Assam Police arrests self-styled 'lieutenant' of the ULFA’s ‘28th Battalion’, Anju Saikia alas Dalimi Dutta, from Puthinadi in the Jorhat district.

  • August 19: ULFA 'Commander-in-Chief', Paresh Baruah, in a statement to the media denies his outfit’s involvement in the August 15-explosion at Dhemaji.

  • August 15: Seventeen persons, including 16 school children, were killed as ULFA detonates explosives at the venue of Independence Day celebrations at Dhemaji town.

A separate explosion by the ULFA, at the venue of Independence Day celebrations at Dhakuakhana in Dhemaji district, results in no casualty.

  • August 14: One civilian is killed and 18 others are injured as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger a grenade blast inside a cinema hall at Gauripur in Dhubri district.

  • August 10: Two ULFA terrorists, a SULFA cadre and a police personnel are killed in an encounter at Jorabat in the Kamrup district.

  • August 8: ULFA explodes five powerful improvised explosive devices targeting two transmission towers of the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited and Assam State Electricity Board at Titabor in the Jorhat district.

  • August 7: A security force personnel is killed as suspected ULFA terrorists lob a grenade on a vehicle of the Border Security Force (BSF) at the Machkhowa locality in Guwahati city.

  • August 3: A Block Development Officer of Manikpur in Bongaigaon district killed by suspected ULFA cadres in front of his office.

  • August 2: The Assam Police arrests Simanta Phukan alias Bastav Deodhai Phukan, chief of ULFA’s 'Enigma unit' and commander of the outfit’s ‘28th battalion’ along with his associate Dulal Baruah, from Napam Mising village under Gaurisagar police station in Sibsagar district.

  • July 23: Two ULFA cadres, identified as Ratiul Barua and Dhaniram Barua, are killed in an encounter at Sundardheki in the Lakhimpur district.

  • July 22: ULFA ‘district commander’ of Bongaigaon, Hitesh Rai, is killed during an encounter at Majigaon.

  • July 21: ULFA terrorists kill two activists of the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party at Jagun in the Tinsukia district.

  • July 17: Media reports indicate that 25 northeastern militants including several ULFA cadres have been killed in separate attacks by unidentified assailants in various localities of Dhaka city. Bangladesh Government denies the occurrence of any such incident.

  • July 17: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a trader at Kabaitari market in the Bongaigaon district for non-payment of extortion money.

  • July 16: Unidentified militants fire at the residences of three ULFA cadres in Sibsagar city.

  • July 16: ULFA terrorists trigger a blast targeting a telephone exchange at Chabua in the Dibrugarh district, causing extensive damage to the exchange.

  • July 15: Six persons, including three Assam Police personnel, are wounded when suspected ULFA terrorists hurled a hand grenade near the Bongaigaon civil hospital in the Bongaigaon district.

  • July 15: Suspected ULFA terrorists blow up an oil pipeline belonging to the Oil India Limited at a village near Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district.

  • July 15: ULFA terrorists blow up a gas pipeline of the Assam Gas Company at Bismile in the Dibrugarh district.

  • July 14: ULFA terrorists kill a SULFA cadre, identified as Monul Haque, at Hajo in the Kamrup district.

  • July 10 : Twelve persons are injured during a grenade explosion in a cinema hall at Nagaon by suspected ULFA terrorists.

  • July 9: ULFA terrorists shoot dead two local leaders of the Congress party, identified as Debajit Haloi and Bipul Talukdar, at Santipur Milan Chowk under Barama police station limits in Nalbari district.

  • July 2: Assam police arrest a man, identified as Nirmal Das, for allegedly harbouring ULFA terrorists from the Basistha locality of Guwahati city.

  • June 29: A suspected ULFA woman cadre, namely Mamoni Devi alias Bibha Hazarika, is arrested from Sarupathar in the Golaghat district.

  • June 29: Seventeen terrorists belonging to the ULFA, NDFB and Tiwa Liberation Tiger Force surrender at Misa in the Nagaon district.

  • June 28: Union Minister of State for Defence, B K Handique, speaking to the press in Guwahati rules out the possibility of the Union Government announcing any unilateral cease-fire with the ULFA.

  • June 28: Thirty-nine terrorists, including four women cadres of the ULFA and Bodo Tiger Force (BTF), surrender at North Lakhimpur along with 10 assorted weapons.

  • June 24: Seven bus passengers are killed and fifteen others sustain injuries as suspected ULFA terrorists detonate a bomb inside a passenger bus at Majgaon under Mathurapur police station limits in the Sibsagar district.

  • June 21: ULFA triggers a bomb blast in the premises of the Telephone Exchange cum Post Office of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) at Tengakhat in Dibrugarh district. The explosion partially damages the office although no casualty is reported.

  • June 20: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in an interview to The Telegraph says that the Union Government is keen to have negotiations with the ULFA and the NDFB on the lines of the dialogue with the NSCN-IM.

  • June 19: Seventeen people are wounded as suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion at Chamber Road in the Tinsukia town. One person later succumbs to his injuries.

  • June 19: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an IED and blow up a coal-laden goods train at Ultapur railway station between Digboi and Margherita in the Tinsukia district derailing eight bogies. A driver of the train was injured in the incident.

  • June 18: ULFA serves an extortion demand amounting to Rupees 25 lakh on a business establishment, SRI Company, in the Mangaldoi town.

  • June 17: Three ULFA cadres are arrested from Bordubi in the Tinsukia district.

  • June 17: One ULFA terrorist is killed during an encounter with the Army at Lokrapara village in Goalpara district.

  • June 16: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, in an interview to the Press Trust of India in Guwahati, says that the ULFA has shown the ‘first signs’ of coming to the negotiation table to solve the insurgency problem.

  • June 16: ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua, in a telephonic conversation with the Guwahati-based vernacular daily Pratidin, rejects the Chief Minister’s statement as baseless.

  • June 14: ULFA terrorist Rohit Mardi alias Hopna Mazda of Bharaguri village in Kokrajhar district killed in an encounter with Army at Pachim Mannatari village under Tihu PS in Nalbari district. An AK-56 rifle with two magazines, 24 rounds of AK-56 live ammunition etc are recovered from him.

  • June 11: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi states in Guwahati that, "The recent understanding between the ULFA and the NSCN-IM is a threat to the State."

  • June 9: Twenty-three people are wounded when suspected ULFA cadres explode a grenade inside a cinema hall at Tinsukia. One of the injured dies a day later.

  • June 4: A surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre is killed by suspected ULFA terrorists at Chakchaka Bazaar under Sarbhog police station limits in Barpeta district.

  • June 4: Suspected ULFA terrorists blow up an oil pipeline of the Oil India Limited at Geetapathar in the Tinsukia district.

  • June 3: Self-styled district commander of the ULFA in Nagaon, Siba Rajbongsi alias Rajen Gohain, is arrested by the Army from Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district.

  • June 3: Three ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Bhalukdabi village in the Goalpara district.

  • May 31: Six surrendered ULFA and NDFB terrorists are arrested while extorting money from a private hospital at Udalguri.

  • May 29: ULFA ‘foreign secretary’, Sashadhar Choudhury, in a statement, demands the release of seven of the outfit’s leaders, missing during the Bhutan Military operations in December 2003, in exchange for the release of the Assam State Minister G C Langthasa’s son whom it had earlier abducted.

  • May 22: Twenty ULFA terrorists surrender to the Army authorities at Tamulpur in the Nalbari district.

  • May 10: A school teacher of Kukurmara village is killed by two ULFA terrorists at Tan Tan High School in the Kamrup district.

  • May 5: Hardcore ULFA terrorist, Rudrajit Deodhai Phukan of Deoraja Mantania village in Sibsagar district, is killed during an encounter with the Army at Na-Kathalguri village in Tinsukia district.

  • April 30: One ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter with the Army at Bordoloinagar under Tinsukia police station limits in Tinsukia District.

  • April 27: Security forces recover seven kilograms of RDX planted by suspected ULFA terrorists underneath the railway tracks at Kurshakati in the Kokrajhar district.

  • April 26: Two ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter with the Army at Lakhopur village in the Nalbari district.

  • April 24: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in a bomb explosion inside a building under construction at Bishnu Nagar in Tinsukia District.

  • April 14: Two persons, including a child, are killed when suspected ULFA terrorists hurled a grenade targeting a group of security force personnel at Ganeshguri in Guwahati city.

  • April 10: Three ULFA cadres are killed during an encounter with the troops near Hahim in Kamrup district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

  • April 6: Nine police personnel are injured in a bomb blast, suspected to be carried out by the ULFA, at Ghuguha in the Dhemaji district.

  • April 4: Two ULFA terrorists, identified as Bhaba Gogoi and Navajyoti Gogoi, are killed in an encounter with the police at Changpur in Golaghat district.

  • April 3: Twenty people are wounded in a bomb explosion triggered by suspected ULFA terrorists inside a movie hall at Simaluguri in the Sibsagar district.

  • March 31: Speaking to the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan rules out the possibility of handing over ULFA leader Anup Chetia, who is now in jail, to Indian authorities.

  • March 29: Two ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter with the Army’s Red Horn Division at Aranga Nala in Kamrup district.

  • March 24: ULFA terrorist Biki Chutia alias Rakesh Chutia of Purana Matapung is killed in an encounter with Army at Daimali Tea Estate under Doomdooma police station limits in Tinsukia District.

  • March 20: Suspected ULFA terrorists detonate explosives targeting the underground oil pipeline at Ratnapuria Chetiapathar in Sibsagar district.

  • March 7: A goods train coming from Ledo to Guwahati is derailed when suspected ULFA terrorists explode an Improvised Explosive Device on the railway track at a place between Bhojo and Sufrai railway stations under Sonari police station in the Sibsagar district.

  • March 4: Two security force personnel and a ULFA terrorist are killed in an encounter at Doholapara village in the Barpeta district.

  • March 3: Eight ULFA and one NDFB cadre surrender at the Udalguri army camp of the 62 Field Artillery Regiment in Darrang district.

  • March 3: Assam Police recover a huge cache of arms and ammunition, kept buried by ULFA terrorists in Bishondoi village in the Dhubri district. 12 AK-56 rifles, one US carbine, one rocket launcher, 28 rounds of AK-56 ammunition, seven universal machine guns magazines, one camera, some wireless sets, six rocket launcher cells and documents relating to arms training are recovered.

  • March 3: Four ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with troops of the Red Horns Division of the Army at Tepkilobana in the Kamrup district.

  • February 25: Assam Government extends the period of ‘general amnesty’ to cadres of the terrorist organizations- ULFA, NDFB, anti-talks faction of the UPDS and anti-talks faction of the Dima Halim Daoga (DHD) - till March 31 to enable them to surrender.

  • February 24: Two unidentified ULFA terrorists and a SULFA cadre are killed in an encounter at Samotiapara village in Nalbari district.

  • February 19: Atul Barooah, ‘Finance Secretary (Western Zone)’ of the ULFA, is killed during an encounter at Bhagadoli village in Dhubri district.

  • February 12: Three suspected ULFA terrorists are killed near the Assam-Meghalaya border under Boko police station jurisdiction in Kamrup district.

  • February 9: Eleven ULFA cadres, hailing from the Nalbari and Nagaon districts, surrender before the authorities after fleeing from their Bhutan camps following the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) operations in December 2003.

  • February 6: Five ULFA terrorists, including two women cadres, are arrested from a Nagaland-bound private vehicle near Borhola in the Jorhat district.

  • January 31: Fifty-three ULFA cadres surrender at Tamulpur in the Nalbari district along with 56 assorted weapons.

  • January 30: Three ULFA cadres surrender at Barpeta Road camp in the Barpeta district.

  • January 28: Four ULFA terrorists trying to enter Assam from Bhutan are killed during an encounter at Paharbasti under Tamulpur police station jurisdiction in the Nalbari district.

  • January 23: Twenty-six ULFA cadres surrender at Udalguri in the Darrang district.

  • January 19: ULFA terrorists explode an IED targeting a crude oil pipeline of the Oil India Ltd (OIL), embedded seven feet under the ground, at Na Pathar village in the Sivasagar district.

  • January 16: ULFA terrorists kill a civilian at Maj Mamorani village under Digboi police station jurisdiction in Tinsukia District.

  • January 15: ULFA terrorists explode bombs on gas pipeline at two locations in the Tinsukia district.

  • January 10: Suspected ULFA terrorists trigger an explosion targeting an over-ground crude oil pipeline of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) at Fakumharmoti in the Sibasagar district.

  • January 8: Ten security force personnel are injured in twin ULFA strikes near Krishnai in the Goalpara district and Ghilabari in Kamrup district.

  • January 5: North East Peoples’ Forum (NEPF), a conglomeration of 16 political parties in the region, urges the ULFA to hold talks with the Union Government.

  • January 5: Six ULFA and two Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA) terrorists surrender to the Army along with small arms and ammunition at Laipuli under Tingkhong police station limits in the Dibrugarh district.

  • January 4: ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa reacting to the Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonpo Jigmi Thinley’s speech at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in Islamabad, Pakistan, in a press statement, labels him as ‘a liar dictated by New Delhi’. He claims that there was absolutely no truth in the Bhutanese Premier’s assertion that the Kingdom "suffered from the presence of three armed extremist outfits of northeast."

  • January 3: Six ULFA cadres surrender at Laipuli in Tinsukia and Bengtol in the Kokrajhar district.

2003

  • December 31: Sixteen ULFA terrorists surrender at Jorhat.

  • December 29: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Sargapur village in the Nalbari District.

  • December 27: Two unidentified ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter with the Army at Batiagaon under Sarthebari police station limits in Barpeta District.

  • December 26: ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah, in an interview to a Guwahati based newspaper, offers conditional dialogue with the Union Government on the issue of Assam's sovereignty through a neutral third party mediator.

  • December 26: ULFA's ideologue and founder member Bhimakanta Buragohain alias Mama surrenders along with three other ULFA leaders before the Indian Army at Tezpur in Sonitpur district.

  • December 25: Five ULFA terrorists are killed while attempting to enter Assam from Bhutan at Baltinadi area under Tamulpur police station limits in the Nalbari district.

  • December 23: Three ULFA terrorists are killed in separate encounters along the India-Bhutan border at Kumarikata and Tamulpur in the Nalbari district.

  • December 22: ULFA 'Chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa in a letter to the Chinese authorities asks for safe passage for its fleeing cadres from Bhutan.

  • December 20: ULFA 'publicity secretary', Mithinga Daimary is arrested during military operations in Bhutan and later handed over to the Indian Army.

  • December 20: Seven ULFA terrorists surrender in the Darrang district after escaping from their camp in Bhutan. December 20: ULFA along with the NDFB and the KLO calls for a 48-hour shutdown in 'Assam, Bodoland and Kamatapur' in protest against the military operations in Bhutan.

  • December 19: Three ULFA terrorists are killed as they enter Indian Territory from Bhutan in the Manas Reserve Forest area of Barpeta district.

  • December 18: Three ULFA terrorists are killed during an ambush laid by the Army in Panbari Reserve Forest under Bijni police station in Bongaigaon district.

  • December 16: 63 ULFA cadres surrender at the 4 Corps headquarters in Tezpur.

  • December 15: Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) launches military operations against the ULFA, NDFB and KLO terrorists holed up in 30 camps in southern Bhutan.

  • December 8: Three persons are killed and six others sustain injuries as a time bomb planted by suspected ULFA terrorists explodes in front of a hardware store at Makum market in the Tinsukia district.

  • November 29: ULFA terrorists kill three persons, including two police personnel, and injure four others in an ambush at Mejeragaon village under Silapathar police station limits in Dhemaji district.

  • November 27: Three ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Ghopapara Basti in the Nalapara Nala village of Darrang district.

  • November 24: ULFA kills two civilians at Khanhkholobari under Udalguri police station limits in the Darrang district.

  • November 22: ULFA terrorists kill 11 labourers of two brick kilns and injured seven others in the Bordubi area of Tinsukia district.

  • November 19: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Gaikhowa village under Golokganj police station jurisdiction in Dhubri district.

  • November 19: ULFA cadres kill four Hindi speaking persons in Nalbari town.

  • November 19: Four women are killed and seven others sustain injuries as ULFA terrorists open fire at Gangquarter in the Bongaigaon district

  • November 18: Five truck drivers are killed and seven others are injured as ULFA terrorists open fire at Basirhat in Dhubri district.

  • November 16: ULFA kills two persons at Nakerbari village in the Nalbari district.

  • November 15: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill two businessmen at the Golakganj market in Dhubri district.

  • November 10: Two ULFA cadres are killed in an encounter at Urangnala Guabari village near the Indo-Bhutan border in Nalbari district.

  • October 28: One ULFA terrorist and a police personnel are killed during an encounter at Borkhuiha village in Nalbari district.

  • October 27: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Betagaon in the Kamrup district.

  • October 24: Pranati Deka, 'cultural secretary' of ULFA, is arrested along with another ULFA cadre at Phulbari in the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

  • October 11: Five persons are killed while another is injured in an attack by the ULFA near Dighal Tarrang Tea Estate in Tinsukia district.

  • October 6: Two ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter at Khalingduar reserve forest in the Darrang district.

  • October 2: ULFA terrorists kill Deben Saikia, a village chief, at Kailash under Pengari police station limits in the Tinsukia district.

  • September 27: Two ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter at Ballamjora village under Gossaigaon police station jurisdiction in Kokrajhar district.

  • September 14: Five persons, including two army personnel, are killed in an ambush by ULFA terrorists at Mukongpathar under Pengeri police station jurisdiction in Tinsukia district.

  • September 8: Police confirms that ULFA was behind the blast that occurred at the Athgaon area of Guwahati in Assam on September 7. 13 persons had been injured in the incident and one of them succumbed to injuries later.

  • September 4: Six ULFA terrorists, including the Kolong-Kopili Anchalik Parishad ‘area commander’ Manoj Bora alias Bhim, surrender before the Nagaon district police chief.

  • September 2: Former Army personnel suspected to have links with the ULFA is killed at Tankibasti village under Paneri police station limits in the Darrang district.

  • August 28: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter near Barpathar village under Bijni police station limits in Bongaigaon.

  • August 27: A Court in Assam’s Kamrup district sentences to life two ULFA terrorists convicting them in the Sanjoy Ghosh abduction and murder case. Ghosh, a social worker had been abducted on July 4, 1997, from Majuli and was subsequently killed.

  • August 25: ULFA terrorists blow up a goods train causing extensive damage to the 200-metre rail track between Lakwah and Safrai railway stations in the Charaideo sub-division of Sivasagar district.

  • August 24: ULFA terrorists kill a woman and her son at Basugaon in Kokrajhar district.

  • August 23: Court in Dhaka pronounces that ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia would remain in Kashimpur Jail for six months more than the stipulated term awarded for various offenses under Bangladeshi laws, as he had failed to pay the fine of Taka 10,000.

  • August 23: Two ULFA terrorists and a member of the Village Defence Committee are killed during an encounter at Sakapara village under Lakhipur police station limits in Goalpara district.

  • August 20: Five ULFA cadres surrender before the Nagaon district police chief.

  • August 19: ULFA terrorists abduct a tea planter from the Tokopathar area under Pangeri police station limits in Tinsukia district.

  • August 18: Five ULFA terrorists are killed at Ghopabasti under Paneri police station limits in the Darrang district and separately two more in the Sessapani area of Kokrajhar district.

  • August 16: One ULFA terrorist is killed at an unnamed place under Bijni police station limits in Bongaigaon district.

Reports indicate that ULFA has set up a camp in the Changpang area of Nagaland that has some Government-controlled oil installations.

  • August 16: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter under the Khoirabari police station-limits, Darrang district.
  • August 10: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter in the Solmara area of Nalbari district.

Approximately 40 unidentified gunmen attack a ULFA hideout at Tiluka in Bhutan killing four ULFA cadres and injuring five more.

  • August 7: ULFA women’s wing secretary Bhomita Talukdar alias Deepali is arrested from the Jangrinpara village of Barpeta district.

  • August 6: Three ULFA cadres are killed during an encounter at Srirampur in Kokrajhar district.

  • August 4: A media report indicates that unidentified gunmen attacked two ULFA hideouts at Kinzo and Babang in Samdrup Jongkhar district and killed three ULFA cadres. Four attackers were also killed in the incident.

Asom Public Works ULFA Parial Committee (APWUPC), an organisation of the ULFA kin, starts a signature campaign in protest against the ULFA’s demand of Swodhin Asom (independent Assam).

  • August 3: ULFA terrorists kill a tea estate-owner and his two sons at Diasajan in Tinsukia district.

  • August 2: Three ULFA terrorists are killed and two police personnel injured during an encounter in the Dakshin Haldibari area of Jalpaiguri district in the State of West Bengal.
    Two ULFA terrorists are killed in Nalbari district.

  • July 23: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter in the Koksaguri area of Kokrajhar district.

Media reports say that the 81st National Assembly of Bhutan adopted a resolution for ‘the last attempt’ to persuade ULFA, NDFB and the KLO to close down their camps within this year ‘peacefully’ failing which terrorists would face ‘military action’.

  • July 20: ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter at Shimultapur, Kokrajhar district.

  • July 17: Three ULFA terrorists are killed during an encounter inside the Chariduar reserve forest of Sonitpur district.
    ULFA terrorist killed during an encounter in Nalbari district.
  • July 11: Media reports from Bhutan indicate that Bhutan National Assembly was unable to reach a consensus over the issue of the way to tackle NDFB, ULFA and the KLO.
  • July 11: ULFA terrorist is killed during an encounter at Machakolgre village in the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.
    A joint hideout of ULFA and the Meghalaya-based Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) is destroyed in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

  • July 10: ULFA terrorist is killed and two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are injured during an encounter at Sonpoirabari under Barpeta police station limits. A woman is also killed in the crossfire.

  • July 7: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter in the Rangjuli area of Goalpara district.

  • July 2: The Nine-day Army cordon laid in search of ULFA terrorists suspected to be hiding inside the forest areas of Lakhipathar in Tinsukia district is lifted.

  • June 29: ULFA 'assistant finance secretary' Rustom Choudhury alias Harimohan Roy is killed during an encounter at Kumargram in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.
    Report indicates that ULFA and NDFB have formed a new outfit named Gorkha Bhutan Liberation Front (GBLF) with 300 Nepalese Gorkha youths from Bhutan.
    ULFA woman cadre killed during an encounter at Bitukana in Meghalaya and two more ULFA cadres, including a woman are subsequently arrested.

  • June 27: Reports indicate that heavy monsoon rains and an outbreak of malaria forced an unspecified number of ULFA terrorists to abandon their jungle bases in Bhutan and seek safe places in the North-Eastern States.
    19 United ULFA and 11 NDFB terrorists surrender before the General Officer Commanding (GOC) IV corps Lt. Gen. Mohinder Singh at Tamulpur in Nalbari district.

  • June 26: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill the Personal Assistant (PA) of a Member of Assam Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Bhawanipur, Sarbananda Choudhury, at Betbari, under Patacharkuchi police station limits in Barpeta district.

  • June 25: Counter-insurgency operations against the ULFA initiated in the forest areas of Lakhipathar in Tinsukia district.

  • June 23: ULFA terrorists ambush an Army convoy at Juriapool in Assam’s Tinsukia district and killed a civilian and injured 10 troops.

    Report says that ULFA ‘commander-in-chief‘Paresh Baruah in an interview to the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC’s) Kolkata correspondent on June 21 admits that he was indeed attacked by unidentified gunmen in Dhaka on May 27.

  • June 22: Inspector General of Police (Special Branch), Khagen Sarma says that while the ‘28th battalion’ of the ULFA was responsible for the attack on an oil storage facility in Tinsukia district on June 20, a 22-member ULFA ‘hit-squad’ was involved in the attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Dhubri district on June 21.

  • June 21: A ULFA terrorist is killed and two security force personnel are injured during an encounter at Panbari, Dhubri district, following an attack by ULFA terrorists at a Central Reserve Police Force camp.

    Reports indicate that ULFA, the Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), a conglomerate of three terrorist groups–United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)– active in Manipur, and the Tripura People’s Democratic Front (TPDF), a front outfit of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), operating in Tripura under a common platform have launched a "Coordinated Regional Military Offensive for liberation of the Region from Indian colonial occupation," code named "Operation Freedom". The reports further said that attacks under the ‘operation’ started on June 17.

  • June 20: State Government issues directives to the Deputy Commissioners and district police chiefs to remain vigilant following intelligence reports that some ULFA terrorists would sneak into the State to find safer places due to heavy rains. The report further indicates that ULFA cadres in small groups have already entered Lakhimpur, Darrang, Nalbari, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Goalpara, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh and Karbi Anglong districts.

    ULFA terrorist and two personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) are killed in an encounter at Nagajan in Tinsukia district. The terrorists also blow up an empty crude oil tank with a rocket launcher.

  • June 19: Security forces arrest three ULFA terrorists from a hideout following an encounter at Bikonggiri in the Phulbari area of West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya.
    The Dibrugarh police arrest a woman home guard personnel, Junali Gogoi for her alleged links with the ULFA.

    Report indicates that Bangladesh Director General of Field Intelligence (DGFI) is probing into the reported attack on ULFA ‘chief’ Paresh Baruah on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 27, 2003.

  • June 17: In Darrang district, three hardcore ULFA terrorists and an Army Major are killed in an encounter, and a woman also receives bullet injuries in the crossfire at Neogpara village under Kalaigaon police station limits.

  • June 16: ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter at Lotkapara, under Golokganj police post limits, in the Dhubri district.

  • June 13: Police increase surveillance on the border areas of Assam following reports that the ULFA terrorists are compelled to move out of their hideouts in the mountainous regions of Bhutan, Myanmar and Garo Hills area in Meghalaya and also from the regions in upper Assam due to heavy rains.

    Report says following recovery of a letter from a slain terrorist a three-month over-ground organisation of the ULFA the Asom Yuva Chatra Parishad (AYCP) is unearthed. The organization is said to be in operation in 18 of the State’s 24 districts.

  • June 12: ULFA terrorist Akon Gogoi alias Pranjal Gogoi alias Chabua Moran is arrested from his residence at Bhadhara village under Chabua police station, in Dibrugarh district. Subsequently, on the basis of the information provided by the arrested terrorist, ULFA ‘communication centre’ is unearthed at Kakopathar in No 2 Dirak village, Tinsukia district and an ULFA conduit Prafulla Hazarika is also arrested by a joint police team of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.

    ULFA terrorists kill a local trader near the Hemlai Tea Estate under Teok police station limits in Jorhat district for not paying an extortion amount of Rupees 200,000 demanded by the outfit earlier.

  • June 11: One ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter at Sarthebari, Nalbari district.

  • June 10: Paresh Baruah, ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ in a telephonic interview with a vernacular daily in Guwahati, Asamiya Pratidin, dismisses claims of attack (May 27) on him by unidentified assailants in Bangladesh.

  • June 10: ULFA terrorist Bipul Bora alias Cobra who acted as a bodyguard of the ULFA ‘deputy commander’ Raju Baruah surrenders at the Army Headquarters in Tezpur, Sonitpur district.

  • June 8: Woman ULFA cadre and two members of the human rights organisation, Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS), which allegedly acts as a front of the ULFA are arrested from Ananda Nagar locality in Guwahati city.

    Police in Nalbari district recover a huge cache of arms including eight anti-tank explosives allegedly belonging to the ULFA from Barkhanajan village.

  • June 7: Four persons sustain injuries in a grenade attack in Dhemaji town allegedly carried out by the ULFA.

  • June 6: One ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter at Sikorajan in the Filobari area of Tinsukia district.

  • June 4: Assam Public Works ULFA Pariyal Committee (APWUPC) submits petition before the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to issue summons to the ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua for forcibly confining their kin for arms training in the jungles of Bhutan.

  • June 3: Reports indicate that ULFA agreed to share the proceeds it would extort from the Tirap, Lohit and Changlang districts in Arunachal Pradesh with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM).

  • June 2: Three NDFB terrorists and two ULFA terrorists, including a ‘sergeant major’ of latter’s women’s wing, surrender at Thakurbari in the Sonitpur district.

  • May 31: An ULFA conduit is killed by his colleagues at Barbheta in Goalpara district

  • May 30: Two ULFA terrorists–‘sergeant major’ Soru Hajo alias Bhupen Kalita and Aswini Sarma alias Ramesh Sarma– are killed in an encounter at Katpuha village in Nalbari district.

  • May 29: ULFA terrorist Clever Momin surrenders before the Meghalaya police in the East Garo Hills district.

  • May 28: Railway Protection Force identifies four insurgency prone sectors in the Northeast and says that the ULFA is active in the Guwahati-Rangiya-Srirampur and the Rangiya-Rangapara sector.

  • May 27: ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah escapes unhurt in an attack by four unidentified assailants while he was leaving his transport agency, ‘Challenger’ at Uttara town in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

  • May 26: Police in Sonitpur destroy an ULFA hideout near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border at Jarubari hillock under Sootea police station and arrest a front ranking terrorist, involved in the killing of officer-in-charge (OC) of Gohpur police station corporal Bibek Hazarika alias Prasanta Barpatra Mudoi.

  • May 24: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in separate encounters in the Kumar Kali reserve forests near Lakhipur in Cachar district and in the Puntan reserve forest of south Kamrup district.
    ULFA terrorists kill their former colleague (Surrendered ULFA) at Basugaon, in Kokrajhar district.

  • May 23: Report indicates that the ULFA has asked its cadres to prepare to leave their camps in Bhutan following Bhutan Government’s warning to ULFA, NDFB and KLO to vacate its territory by June 30, 2003.
  • May 21: Security forces repulse ULFA attack at Borjhora in Assam’s Dhubri district. No injuries on the either side are reported.

  • May 16: In its fortnightly mouthpiece Freedom, ULFA warns the Government not to adopt the Mizo model to tackle the demands made by it.

  • May 18: Reports indicate that the Tripura-based ATTF has acquired rocket launchers and Rocket-Propelled Grenades through ULFA.

  • May 17: Police personnel from Assam arrest ULFA ‘Enigma group’ commander identified as Lal Singh alias Amar Singh alias Alman Singh from Tura, district head quarters of West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. His two female associates are also arrested.

Bhutanese King Jigme Singhye Wangchuk calls upon the people to volunteer for formation of a ‘militia force’ to counter Indian insurgent groups–ULFA, NDFB and the KLO on its soil.

  • May 15: Report indicates that ULFA has floated an ‘overground wing’ under the name of Asom Jatiya Parishad.

  • May 14: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at an unnamed place in Assam’s Darrang district.

  • May 14: ULFA ‘sergeant’ is arrested a local bus stand at Adabari in Guwahati.

  • May 12: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Nimaitola, Bongaigaon district.

  • May 9: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at Andhargaon village in Bongaigaon district.

  • May 6: Unidentified assailants attack ancestral house of ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah at Jeraigaon, Chabua police station limits in Dibrugarh district.

  • April 29: Meghalaya Police Chief L. Sailo says that a joint operation with Assam would be carried out in the Garo Hills area of Meghalaya where ULFA and NDFB have intensified their activities.

  • April 23: ULFA terrorist killed and three police personnel injured in encounter at Borpathar village, under Bijni police station limits, Kokrajhar district.

  • April 23: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at an unnamed place under Baithalangshu police station-limits, Karbi Anglong district.

  • April 22: The Assam Public Works (APW), an organisation of the kin of ULFA terrorists, expresses reluctance to accept noted musician and singer Bhupen Hazarika or any other intellectual to mediate with the ULFA.

  • April 20: Woman ULFA cadre, Dwipamani Kalita, believed to be involved in major mortar attacks in 2002 in Guwahati surrenders before the Assam Police chief Hare Krishna Deka along with an AK 56 rifle and three rocket-propelled gun cells.

  • April 18: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Bograguri village, Nalbari district.

  • April 16: Report indicates that the Meghalaya-based Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) has reached an understanding with ULFA and NDFB to operate together in the Garo Hills area of Meghalaya.

  • April 10: Police in Meghalaya seize, among other things, 11 big shoulder-borne rockets, an AK 56 rifle, several thousands of medium machine gun-ammunition and two communication sets from an ULFA hideout at Rongdupara, in West Garo Hills district.

  • April 7: ULFA cadres reportedly gather for the 24th 'raising day' at Talli village, Golokganj police station-limits, Dhubri district.

  • April 5: Four ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Silkhaguri, Bongaigaon district.

  • April 3: Suspected ULFA terrorists fire rocket-propelled grenade at a petroleum gas bottling plant in Palasbari, Kamrup district.

  • April 1: ULFA terrorist killed at Jurigaon, in Assam's Goalpara district.

  • March 30: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Jatiabangra in Tamulpur area, Nalbari district.

  • March 21: ULFA 'sergeant major' Manoj Deka killed in encounter in the Nalanga Pahar area, Kokrajhar district.

  • March 21: ULFA 'sergeant major' identified as Manoj Deka killed in encounter in the Nalanga Pahar area, Kokrajhar district.

  • March 18: ULFA terrorist identified as Jitu Konwar alias Nitu Gogoi alias Ritu Sarma arrested in Sivasagar district.

  • March 16: Six civilians are killed and 55 more injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast set-off by ULFA terrorists under a passenger bus, on National Highway No. 7, Bamunghopha, Goalpara district.

  • March 13: ULFA 'commander' of a Bhutan-based camp, identified as ‘Captain’ Kamal Gogoi, surrenders to General Officer Commanding (GOC), IV Corps, Lt Gen Mohinder Singhat the corps-headquarters in Tezpur, Sonitpur district.

  • March 12: Two motorcycle-borne ULFA terrorists attack Bongaigaon police station, injuring four policemen and three civilians.

  • March 10: Reports indicate that ULFA terrorists are planning to abduct a group of Russian engineers of the Moscow-based company LARGE, engaged by the state-run Oil India Limited.
    Speaking in Delhi Deputy Premier Advani rules out immediate negotiations with ULFA terrorists.

  • March 9: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says ULFA is desperate and that the March 8-attack on an oil refinery in Tinsukia was just to maintain its visibility.

Assam Public Works ULFA Parial Committee, an organisation of ULFA kin criticises ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah for attacks on innocent persons and important installations like oil pipelines.

  • March 8: ULFA terrorists set-off an explosion at a five million-litre petrol reservoir at Digboi Refinery, in Tinsukia district, causing a huge loss of approximately Rs 200 million to the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), a public sector enterprise. In another attack, they damage a gas pipeline facility at Kathalguri, in the same district, in a blast.

A group of ULFA terrorists attack and partially damage the Darrangiri police outpost in Goalpara district. While none police personnel are injured in the attack, the fleeing terrorists kill two persons and injure six more at a nearby migrant-settlement.

  • March 7: ULFA terrorists fire rocket-propelled grenades at a police commando barrack in Bongaigaon district town. No one is injured in attack.

  • March 4: ULFA cadres alleged to be planning attacks on oil pipelines are arrested from Teok area in Jorhat district.

ULFA terrorists flee following a clash with a joint team of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel at Baruathan in Dhemaji district.

  • March 3: At a meeting in Guwahati, the Unified Command’s strategy group recommends the formation of a ‘crack police team’ for Guwahati to counter ULFA-attacks.

  • February 25: ULFA attacks a local petrol pump at Chagolia, Dhubri district, injuring a person.

  • February 18: Three ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter at Borrangajuli village, Darrang district.

  • February 18: A couple affiliated to the ULFA is arrested from Koligaon bus station, Mangaldoi police station-limits in Darrang district.

  • February 19: ULFA kills a personnel of Assam Police’s Commando Battalion in an ambush at Nongardon Nepalibasti, Baithalangshu police station-limits, Karbi Anglong district.

  • February 15: The ULFA’s mouthpiece, Freedom says that a solution to its 'problems' is to be sought outside the Indian constitution.

  • February 12: ULFA 'sergeant' Nipul Bora surrenders to the Sonitpur district police chief.

Union Minister of State for Home I.D. Swami while speaking in Dimapur, Nagaland, says the ULFA should come forward for talks without any preconditions.

  • February 11: Four persons sustain injuries in a grenade blast triggered by ULFA terrorists inside the Prem Chandra Champalal complex, in Bara Bazar (local market) area of Assam's Goalpara district.

  • February 3: ULFA terrorists abduct businessman from Jagiroad in Morigaon district

  • February 3: Former Assam Chief Minister Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta appeals to Union government to start peace process with ULFA at the earliest with an 'open mind'. He also says that government should go ahead with peace process even if the ULFA wants to discuss 'sovereignty' of Assam.

  • February 2: ULFA calls differences over geographical boundaries in Northeast to be an 'internal matter' and appeals for resolution without the involvement of Union government.

ULFA claims responsibility for blast at an underground oil pipeline in Upper Mamoroni area of Tinsukia.

  • February 1: Two ULFA terrorists killed in encounter at Nanoi reserve forest of Darrang district.

  • January 30: ULFA 'political trainer' Bandana Das alias Babita Kalita arrested by police in Kamrup district.

  • January 24: ULFA kills one SF personnel at Bhuyanpara inside the Manas National Park in Barpeta.

  • January 22: 10 Northeast-based terrorist outfits, including ULFA, give Republic Day (January 26) 'boycott call'.

January 21: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Rangchali in Dibrugarh district.

  • January 20: Two ULFA terrorists killed in encounter at Rangsali, Tinsukia district.

  • January 14: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Patkijuli village, Nalbari district.

  • January 13: ULFA reported to be planning major offensive against some 'controversial' public personalities in Assam, including Ministers, ruling Congress Party's Legislators and bureaucrats.

  • January 5: Assam government decides against granting safe passage to ULFA leaders and cadres during festive season of Magh Bihu.

2002

  • December 25: Suspected ULFA terrorists throw five mortar bombs in quick succession in Kalibari and Ambri areas of Guwahati killing two civilians, including a five-year-old child. 16 more are injured in these incidents.

  • December 24: An ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter in Bagicha Chuba, Kalaigaon, Darrang district.
    Two ULFA terrorists are killed near Nakati forest, in Kokrajhar district.

  • December 23: All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) president Prabin Boro volunteers to broker peace with ULFA.

  • December 22: Three ULFA terrorists are arrested from Kaimari village, Golakganj police station-limits, in Assam's Dhubri district.

  • December 17: Reports say the ULFA, in its fortnightly Freedom, alleged that security forces in Assam killed at least 500 ULFA and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) terrorists in various encounters during the past 18 months.

  • December 16: The Sanjoy Ghosh abduction-cum-murder-case trial indicting ULFA begins in Guwahati.

  • December 11: ULFA terrorist Manoranjan Doley alias Mangal Singh is arrested in a search operation in Assam's Golaghat district at No. 3 Tarani Gaon, Merapani police station-limits.

  • December 9: Police in Assam's Lakhimpur district arrest ULFA terrorist Rabin Deuri from Bhogpur, Bihpuria circle.

  • December 7: Two ULFA women cadre surrender to the 181st Mountain Brigade in Assam's Tinsukia district.

  • December 5: Two ULFA terrorists, Pranjal Borah and Jayanta Ray, are killed in an encounter in Putani village, Samaguri police station-limits, in Assam's Nagaon district.

  • December 4: Reports quote ULFA 'chairman' Arbinda Rajkhowa as saying the outfit would continue its 'armed struggle'.

  • December 2: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in a memorandum to Prime Minister Vajpayee alleges that Bhutan was ‘cleverly relocating' ULFA camps to evade pressure from the Indian government.

Self-styled ULFA 'corporal' Meghnath is killed in an encounter in Maomari, Dudhnoi police station-limits, Goalpara district, Assam.

  • November 27: Four persons are injured in a grenade attack by suspected ULFA terrorists near Chilarai Bridge, Golokganj police station-limits, in Assam's Dhubri district.

  • November 21: Assam Police chief (Director General) H K Deka says, in Guwahati, top-ULFA leaders have lost control over the rank and file and the latter indulge in extortion independent of their leaders.

  • November 18: A report indicates that ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah has directed his cadres to target the tea industry in Assam for extortion.

  • November 17: ULFA mouthpiece Swadhinata reiterates preconditions for peace talks.

  • November-13: ULFA terrorists set free local contractor Alimuddin Ahmed abducted on September 2.

  • November 12: Two ULFA terrorists, including a woman cadre are arrested from Dimow, in Assam's Sivasagar district.

  • November 6: A group of villagers, in Assam's Bongaigaon district, lynch two ULFA terrorists.
    Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter in Tinsukia district.

  • November 6: Reports indicate of ULFA's extortion drive in Barpeta and Bongaigaon districts of Upper Assam. Reports also indicate of ULFA-National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Khaplang (NSCN-K) tie up for extortion.

  • November 5: Reports say a joint police team from Tingkhong and Borbam has nabbed ULFA terrorist Pankaj Gogoi in Assam's Dibrugarh district.

  • November 3: In a joint operation with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Assam police destroy a training camp situated at the foothills of Molapahar, in Tinsukia district, being jointly used by ULFA and NSCN-K.

  • October 31: Five ULFA terrorists led by 'corporal' Himan Deori of the outfit's Enigma-A group and seven NDFB terrorists surrender at the Tamulpur Army camp, in Assam's Nalbari district.

  • October 30: Two top terrorists of ULFA’s Enigma Group are killed in an encounter in Ajanta Path area, Guwahati, Assam.

  • October 21: ULFA terrorist identified as Dipu Gogoi is arrested in Moranhat, Dibrugarh district, Assam.

  • October 15: ULFA, through its mouthpiece Freedom, reiterates the demand for a 'plebiscite' in Assam.

  • October 12: An ULFA terrorist and his wife, also an ULFA cadre, are nabbed from a bus at Haloating Chariali, near Amguri, in Assam's Sivasagar district.

  • October 6: An ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter in the Jamduar Reserve Forest, Gossaigaon police station-limits, Kokrajhar district.

  • October 5: Police sources suspect ULFA might have been behind a bomb blast that occurred in Assam's Nagaon district, killing a civilian and injuring three others.
    A school teacher from Garumara is arrested in Jorhat district for alleged links with ULFA.

  • October 2: An ULFA terrorist is killed in an encounter in Bihjia village, in Assam's Nalbari district.

  • October 1: ULFA women 'sergeant' Tulsi Rabha and another woman cadre, Malti Santoshi, are arrested from Somphong Par, near Balda village, Goalpara district.
    ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom, terms the government's effort of furthering development in Assam as 'mischievous' and a ploy to intensify counter-measures against the outfit.

  • September 30: ULFA 'cultural secretary' Pallavi Phukan alias Kunjalata Deuri is arrested in Baluguri village, Tinsukia district, Assam.

  • September 26: Media reports indicate, Assam is vigilant against any threat that might emanate from the suspected nexus between the ULFA and Nepal's Maoists.

  • September 24: A court in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka sentences ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia and his two accomplices to seven years imprisonment for 'illegal possession' of a satellite phone.
    Sivasagar Chief Judicial Magistrate remands ULFA 'east zone commander' Ramu Mech and his body guard to seven days in police custody.
    Reports indicate ULFA has shifted two of its training camps from their current, unspecified location in Bhutan to Narphung, also in Bhutan.

  • September 23: ULFA terrorists abduct a civilian from his residence in Kheremiagaon, Mariani police station jurisdiction, Jorhat district.

  • September 22: Prabin Konwar alias Ramu Mech, the ULFA 'east zone commender', and another ULFA terrorist identified as Ranjit Rajkhowa alias Jyoti Chaliha are arrested from a private nursing home in Diburgarh district of Assam.

  • September 20: ULFA terrorists kill a security force personnel in an ambush near Orang River at Gowabari in Assam's Darrang district.

  • September 19: Two ULFA terrorists are killed in an encounter the security forces near the Nanoi river embankment in Assam's Darrang district.

  • September 18: The General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 'Red Horn Division' of the Army, stationed in Assam, Major General Gaganjit Singh claims that terrorists from two ULFA camps in Myanmar are ready to surrender, but are, however, being restrained by their leaders.

  • September 15: In its mouthpiece Freedom, ULFA denies its suspected involvement in the Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express derailment on September 9, in Bihar State. Approximately 119 persons had been killed in the accident.

  • September 14: Two ULFA terrorists and a security force personnel are killed in an encounter following a raid on a terrorist hideout at Uttarkuchi village in Nalbari district of Assam.

  • September 12: Report says, a court in Dhaka would pronounce its verdict on detained United ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia, on September 24.
    ULFA terrorist nabbed from a place under Bilasipara police station limits, Dhubri district, Assam.

  • September 10: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter in Bhebladongpar, Patacharkuchi police station limits, Barpeta district of Assam.
    ULFA terrorists kill a Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) cadre at the local club-cum-library in Balajan in Dhubri district, Assam.

  • September 6: ULFA self-styled 'lieutenant' Lakhyajit Gogoi alias Bhaimon Gogoi and another ULFA terrorist, Arvinda Konwar alias Devanand Chetia, arrested by Assam Rifles in Nagaland's Mon district.
    Assam Governor Sinha says ULFA's 'preconceived mindset' is impeding negotiations.

  • September 1: Five ULFA terrorists arrested from Bhekulajan village, Duliajan police station limits, in Assam's Dibrugarh district.

  • August 31: Three ULFA terrorists killed following an encounter in Bamunkuchigaon, Patacharkuchi police station limits, Barpeta district.

  • August 30: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Suktaguri village, Darrang district.

  • August 29: Report says an ULFA 'sergeant' and a female cadre surrendered to security force (SF) personnel in Assam's Dibrugarh district.
    A report indicates that oil companies in Assam have paid extortion money to ULFA.

  • August 28: Five ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Kachkuripathar, Sarthebari police station limits, Barpeta district.

  • August 22: Government confirms that South Abhayapuri (Bongaigaon district) Legislator Chandan Sarkar's son, abducted on March 2, 2002 from Falakata in West Bengal, is in ULFA's captivity. Alert people apprehend three pseudo ULFA cadres while trying to extort money from a local businessman, at a place under Kokrajhar police station limits.

  • August 19: Reports indicate that intelligence sources suspect ULFA's hand, besides that of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisations (KLO), in the August 17-Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) killings in which five Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) activists had been killed.

  • August 18: Reports claim ULFA is trying to unite with the Manipur-based United National Liberation Front (UNLF).
    Reports state that ULFA is trying to take advantage of the differences between Bodo and non-Bodo groups over the formation of the Bodoland Territorial Council with the aim of creating disturbances in the Assam.

  • August 14: Four ULFA terrorists killed in separate encounters--two near Suklapara in Kamrup district and two more near Dudhnoi in Goalpara district.

  • August 13: ULFA conduit arrested from Gauripara area in Guwahati.

  • August 12: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter near Darrangamela, Nalbari district. Suspected ULFA conduit arrested from Aarikusi, Nalbari district, Assam.

  • August 10: ULFA issues a press release refuting allegations of its involvement in the abduction of seven BLT cadres.

  • August 6: Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samiti (SJSS), a platform of various non-Bodo organisatons, hails the 'moral support' extended by ULFA to its opposition to forming the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).

  • August 4: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter in Khoirabari, Kamrup district. Two ULFA terrorists arrested at a place under Hatssinghimari police station jurisdiction, Dhubri district.

  • August 3: Basanta Gogoi alias Dipen Bora, a 'corporal' in ULFA's 28th battalion, killed in an encounter in Chamguri village, Dibrugarh district.

  • August 2: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Umananda, Darrang district.

  • August 1: The ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom, says Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) would create political chaos.

  • July 29: Four ULFA terrorists, including a self-styled 'lieutenant' and a woman cadre, killed near Ghaghrapar in Assam's Nalbari district.

  • July 25: Reports say a nine-member ULFA team led by Ashanta Phookan entered Golaghat district to sabotage Independence day (August 15) celebrations.

  • July 24: ULFA terrorist killed in Kukapar village, Barpeta district.

  • July 20: Media report indicates security force personnel apprehend strikes by ULFA on Independence Day-eve in Assam.

  • July 19: ULFA alleges that increased presence of Indian security forces on Assam's border with Bhutan is a hurdle in withdrawing from bases in Bhutan.

  • July 17: Manipur-based United National Liberation Front (UNLF) while claiming responsibility for the July 16 killing of three security force personnel near Jirighat in Assam's Cachar district in a statement, indicates that attacks were carried out at ULFA's behest.
    Reports say, ULFA terrorists vacated two camps in Bhutan.

  • July 16: Six ULFA terrorists, on their way to a training camp in Myanmar arrested by Assam Rilfes (AR) personnel in Mon district of Nagaland.

  • July 14: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Dighali village, Nalbari district.
    Intelligence reports caution authorities in Assam about the presence of a 70-member-strong ULFA gang in Sivasagar district, allegedly led by 'operation commandant' Dristi Rajkhowa,` and warn that the group might sabotage Independence Day celebrations.
    Media report indicates that ULFA and NDFB terrorists based in camps in Bhutan may approach hospitals in West Bengal for treatment, following shrinking of medical facilities in Bhutan.
    Three ULFA terrorists arrested from Netabari village while on an extortion bid.

  • July 10: Three ULFA terrorists arrested from Pallel Bazar, in Manipur's Thoubal district.

  • July 8: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in the Barpathar area of Golaghat district.
    Sidharthamani Bora, the self-styled finance secretary of ULFA's Sowansiri Anchalik Parishad surrenders in Jorhat.

  • July 6: Major General Gaganjit Singh, General Officer in Command (GoC), 21st Mountain Division rules out presence of a women suicide squad of the ULFA.

  • July 5: A senior police official says ULFA has trained women in 'intelligence gathering'.

  • July 3: Report claims 20 ULFA terrorists, including women cadres, infiltrated Assam to extort money and recruit cadres.

  • July 1: ULFA in its mouthpiece Freedom asks Assamese students to launch anti-Hindi campaign, say reports.

  • June 26: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at Kardoiguri village in Tinsukia district.
    A report says ULFA involved is in fake currency circulation in Assam.

  • June 25: Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Nanoipara, under Paneri police station limits.
    Civilian killed and 28 more, including three SF personnel, injured in a grenade attack by suspected ULFA terrorists near Mayapuri cinema in Bongaigaon.

  • June 23: Two ULFA terrorists, one SF personnel killed in Subansiri-encounter, Nalbari district.

  • June 21: A report says, ULFA is continuing with its recruitment drive in Upper Assam.

  • June 20: Police in Dibrugarh arrest two ULFA terrorists from Khowang and Moran areas in separate raids.

  • June 19: Two ULFA terrorists, one security force personnel killed in an encounter near Achabam Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district. · Assam Public Works (APW), a Guwahati-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) refutes ULFA's charges that it had, at the behest of the government, mobilised people to file complaints with Assam Human Rights Commission against ULFA Commander-in-Chief Paresh Baruah.

  • June 18: Six ULFA terrorists killed in separate encounters--two at Vishnupur, Ulubari, another two at Lakhimpur, and two more at the Dumni Tea Estate, Nalbari district. One SF personnel also killed in the last encounter.
    ULFA terrorist arrested from Bisondoi village of Assam's Dhubri district.
    Reports hold, ULFA and NDFB procure arms from a Manipur-based terrorist outfit, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF).

  • June 12 : Arpan Saikia, believed to be ULFA’s ‘operation commander’ for Rangpur Anchalik Parishad, arrested in Pathalibum village in Dibrugarh district.

  • May 29: ULFA terrorist arrested from Thekeraguri village, under Tingkhong police station limits.

  • May 28: ULFA terrorist arrested from Ratanpur near Tingkhong in Dibrugarh district.

  • May 26: Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) may use ULFA’s ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua to target its chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, c;lim reports.

  • May 25: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter near Sukhanjali village in Nalbari district.

  • May 22: Ffour ULFA terrorists arrested following a joint operation launched by troops of the 2nd Mountain Division and personnel of Assam and Nagaland police at Lahurijan village, under Bokajan police station limits.

  • May 20: Self-styled ULFA commander Tapan Baruah alias Madan Das killed in an encounter at Talpathar Majhgaon in Tinsukia district.

  • May 19: ULFA’s 28th battalion’s ‘sergeant major’ identified as Diganta Dihingia killed in encounter at Chetia Handique village in Sivasagar district.
    Assam police arrest ULFA terrorist from a house under Simaluguri police station limits.

  • May 18: 10 ULFA terrorists, including a woman cadre, surrender in Nalbari district.

  • May 16: Reports say ULFA mouthpiece Freedom (Swadhinata) leveled allegations against the Indian government of carrying out ‘reconnaissance surveys’ over its camps in Bhutan for a possible military offensive.

  • May 14: Nine persons injured in various attacks carried out by ULFA terrorists, allegedly, jointly with NDFB terrorists at Gauripur in Dhubri district.

  • May 12: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at Dalanghat village in Darrang district.

  • May 10: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at the Pachim Kamarkuchi village under the Nalbari police station limits.

  • May 9: ULFA conduit arrested from Nij Bihuguri village, under Tezpur police station limits.
    ULFA has renewed its attempt to escalate its terrorist acts in parts of Assam, claim reports.

  • May 8: Two ULFA terrorists killed in separate encounters in Nalbari district––in Elangidal and Dahali villages respectively.

  • May 6: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter in Umananda village, under Goreshwar police station limits.

  • May 5: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter near Kekankuchi in Nalbari district.

  • May 1: Encounter between Jorhat police and ULFA terrorists reported at Panijangaon under Mathura East police station limits. There were, however, no casualties.

  • April 25 ULFA terrorist Bulbul Bora, self-styled 'corporal and weapon training instructor', killed in an encounter in Mahakhuli, Nagaon.

  • April 22 ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter with security forces in Nalbari district Kokrajhar police recover the dead body of a girl from Hatimatha

  • April 20: Seven  ULFA terrorists surrender  at Laipuli in Tinsukia. One more terrorist surrenders at Barhampur camp, Nagaon.

  • April 19: Two United Liberation Front of Asom  ULFA terrorists  killed in an encounter at  Barandhara under the Ghagrapaar police station limits of Nalbari.

  • April 18: A  ULFA  terrorist identified as Bikash Das  killed in an encounter at Dahkaunia under the Nalbari police station limits. A suspected ULFA conduit identified as Deepak Roy  arresed in Gossaigaon Natabari village under the Tamarhat police station limits of Kokarajhar district.

  • April 17: One unidentified ULFA terrorist  killed in an  encounter at Pipla village under Patacharkuchi police station limits in Nalbari.

  • April 15: Bagaribari police personnel arrest  two Muslim Revolutionary Democratic Front (MRDF) terrorists from the Sonkosh.

  • April 13: Two  ULFA terrorists injured in an encounter at the North Bishnupur area, Nalbari.

  • April 12: Jorhat police  arrest one ULFA ‘acting district commander’ Jagat Phukan of Dhansiri Anchalik Parishad.

  • April 8: One  ULFA terrorist  killed by  near Hathigor in Darrang .

  • April 7: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Balilessa Soondartala in Nalbari district. ULFA observes its ‘raising day’.

  • April 4: ULFA chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, rejects the safe-passage offer by the Assam government.

  • April 3: One ULFA terrorist surrenders at Barhampur camp, Nagaon.

  • March 30: One ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at Dalledela village under Phulbari police station limits in West Garo hills district of Meghalaya.

  • March 29: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at Bihira village near Nalbari, Assam.

  • March 24: ULFA reiterates preconditions- venue for talks should be a third country, should be under United Nations (UN) supervision; and ‘sovereignty’ should also be discussed, for talks, indicate reports.
    A self-styled 'sergeant major' Dilip Saloi alias Bhaiti Adhikary killed in Kamrup encounter, Assam.
    Separately, A self-styled commander of ‘B’ Group, Arantu Hazarika alias Dwipen Talukdar killed in an encounter at Arikuchi Balagaon in Nalbari district on March 22.

  • March 22: Two ULFA terrorists, including a woman cadre, killed in an encounter in a reserve forest under the Patacharkuchi police station limits of Barpeta district, Assam.

  • March 20: ULFA terrorist surrenders before the Nagaon district police chief in Assam.

  • March 19: Seven ULFA terrorists- four at Akhara, 70 kilometres west of Guwahati and three in Dhubri killed in separate encounters in Assam.
    Separately one ULFA terrorist killed in Kamrup and another arrested in Nalbari.

  • March 18: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a trader at Bhatipara village under Boko police station limits, Kamrup in Assam.

  • March 17: Five ULFA terrorists -three from Balipara village and one each from Shanristipur in Nalbari and Nagaon arrested in Assam.

  • March 16: One ULFA terrorist killed near No. 2 Bongaon under the Tihu police station limits, Assam.

  • March 7: Two ULFA terrorists killed in the Ripu Reserve Forest area, near Gossaigaon, Assam.

  • March 5: One ULFA terrorist killed in Niljulki village, Nalbari district, Assam.

  • March 3: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Nemukur Konwargaon, near Bokota, in Sibasagar district, Assam.

  • February 27: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Gugoloni under Naharkotia police station limits in Assam

  • February 24: Four ULFA terrorists killed at Boragaon in Tinsukia district in Assam.

  • February 22: One ULFA terrorist killed at Dhantola in Nalbari, Assam.

  • February 20: One ULFA terrorist killed in the Dirok reserved forest area, Tinsukia in Assam.

  • February 19: ULFA terrorist killed near Guwahati.
    Suspected ULFA terrorists kill two youths at Bistupur in Nalbari, Assam.

  • February 14: Five ULFA terrorists killed near the Assam border with Arunachal Pradesh.

  • February 10: Two Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) terrorists killed at Naharbari Kopili Xatra near Mangaldai.

  • February 3: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter near Birubari Nizorapar in Guwahati, Assam.

  • January 31: Three ULFA terrorists killed neat Boko in Kamrup district, Assam.

  • January 29: A ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter at the Dibru-Saikhowa reserved forest near Doomdooma, Assam.

  • January 27: ULFA terrorists kill two security force (SF) personnel in Kamrup district, Assam. Ten others injured in a separate attack in Golaghat.

  • January 22: A ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter in the Raimana Reserve Forest area near Gosssaigoan.

  • January 20: Four ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Toli village near Agomani on the Assam-Bangladesh.

  • January 9: Two ULFA terrorists killed in Kokrajhar, Assam.

  • January 1: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) offered a 30-day safe passage by the Assam government.

2001

  • December 30: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill a Congress (I) activist near Bejkuchi village, under Nalbari police station limits.
    A ULFA terrorist killed under the Duni police station limits, Darrang district.

  • December 28: Suspected ULFA terrorist killed under the Kalaigaon police station limits in Assam.

  • December 23: Two ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter in Nijkhusla, Kamrup district in Assam.

  • December 21: Six Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) activists arrested in Shantinagar, near Guwahati in Assam.

  • December 20: Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter near Suwagpur, Darrang district, Assam.

  • December 18: Five ULFA terrorists-three in Nalbari and two in Sadiya along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, killed in Assam.

  • December 15: Three ULFA terrorists arrested from the Motapam village near Dholaghat in Tinsukia district.

  • December 9: One ULFA terrorist killed an encounter and two others arrested in Khoirabari and Darrang districts respectively.

  • December 6: One ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter near Kumsung in Tinsukia district, Assam.

  • December 2: Reports indicate ULFA likely to ‘close’ camps in Bhutan.

  • November 27: ULFA declares as a ‘protest day’. Its Arabinda Rajkhowa appeals for a political settlement.

  • November 23: Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter near Bolajhar in Darrang.

  • November 21: ULFA terrorist killed in an encounter in the Dangori Reserve Forest area. Two ULFA terrorists arrested separately in Guwahati.

  • November 18: Suspected ULFA terrorists kill Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader in Rangajan village, Tinsukia in Assam.

  • November 10: ‘Chief’ of ULFA platoon division arrested in Siliguri, West Bengal.

  • November 5: Two ULFA terrorists arrested in Dhubri.

  • October 22: Three ULFA terrorists killed in Bholpur under Tamulpur police station limits in Nalbari, Assam.
    Five ULFA terrorists surrender in Nalbari.

  • October 21: ULFA terrorist killed in encounter at Donjargaon in Nalbari, Assam.

  • October 20: Two ULFA terrorists killed in encounter near the Dikcham Tea Estate, Rajgarh, in Dibrugarh district, Assam.

  • October 18: Two ULFA terrorists lynched by the locals in Bijupara, Kamrup district in Assam.
    Security forces kill one ULFA terrorist in Darrang.

  • October 17: Two ULFA terrorists arrested at Balikuchi village under the Nalbari police station jurisdiction.

  • October 15: ULFA ‘publicity secretary’ along with 10 others surrender in Lajpuli, Tinsukia.

  • October 11: Four ULFA terrorists surrender in Golaghat.
    Kamrup ULFA ‘area commander’ killed at Patharkmhah in Ri Bhoi, Meghalya.

  • October 8: Two ULFA terrorists surrender in Jorhat.

  • October 6: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) personnel arrest five ULFA terrorists in connection with Tinsukia district police chief murder in May 1996.

  • September 27: Two ULFA terrorists and one Army personnel killed in encounter at Kumarigaon in Mahadevpur area along the Assam-Nagaland border.

  • September 21: Two Army personnel killed in an ULFA-triggered bomb-blast near Kakapathar Kumchang Tea Estate. Another succumbs to injuries later.

  • August 17: The ULFA reiterates its earlier pre-conditions for a peace process to be initiated. These are: (1) Talks would have to be held at a mutually decided venue outside India. (2) Talks would have to be held under the supervision of the United Nations. (3) The main issue to be discussed is 'sovereignty' for Assam.

  • August 5: Three ULFA terrorists killed and five security force personnel injured in an encounter at Nalapara village along the Indo-Bhutan border in Darrang district.

  • July 29: Two CRPF security force personnel and a driver of the vehicle they were travelling in killed and five more security force personnel injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion caused by suspected ULFA terrorists at Bhalukjuli in Goalpara district.

  • July 27: ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, addressing the outfit's Martyr Day celebrations, calls for a referendum in the State to decide the issue of sovereignty for which the outfit is fighting. He adds that his organisation wants a ‘political solution’ to the 'Indo-Assam conflict.’

  • July 17: ULFA, in its mouthpiece Freedom, calls upon the NSCN-IM to review its stand on an extended Nagalim to 'avoid being projected as a chauvinistic outfit'.

  • July 6: Media reports suggest that the ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah has been injured in an explosion at the residence of a political activist of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal in Bangladesh, Mir Kasim Ali.

  • June 13: Three ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter at Lainagar Dimrohala in Dibrugarh district.

  • June 6: 12 security force personnel injured in a pre-dawn rocket attack by suspected ULFA terrorists on a Central Resrve Police Force (CRPF) camp at Dhupdhara in Goalpara district.

  • June 4: Three ULFA terrorists killed and five police personnel injured in an encounter at Dhalajan Fatagaon in Jorhat district.

  • May 3: Six AGP activists killed and 16 civilians injured in separate attacks by suspected ULFA terrorists in Nalbari and Goalpara districts.

  • May 2: An AGP office holder and another AGP activist killed in an attack by suspected ULFA terrorists at Raniganj in Bilasipara.

  • May 1: The general secretary of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and also the party's candidate from Dibrugarh constituency, Jayanta Dutta and four other persons were killed and nine others injured in separate ULFA attacks in Dibrugarh town.

  • April 29: Twelve AGP activists were injured as suspected ULFA terrorists exploded a grenade near 'Janata Bhawan', the official residence of the Chief Minister in Guwahati.

  • April 25: The then Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, addressing a press conference in Guwahati, alleges that ULFA terrorists in connivance with the Congress Party were targeting the AGP candidates.

  • April 24: Two AGP activists were killed by ULFA terrorists at Diwanpara and Chakihali Bazar of Bongaigaon district.

  • April 15: Three security force personnel were killed in an attack by ULFA terrorists near the Paneri police station in Darrang district.

  • March 30: Five ULFA terrorists killed in two separate encounters in the Tengi village of Tinsukia district and Kalakuchi village of Nalbari district.

  • March 17: Three youths, suspected to be police informers, were first abducted and later killed by ULFA terrorists at Burinagar village in Nalbari district.

  • March 15: Six ULFA terrorists belonging to the outfit's 'Enigma Unit' killed in an encounter in a forest area under Krishnai police station in Goalpara district. On the same day, six ULFA terrorists, led by the outfit's Kamrup district 'operation commander' Raju Ahmed surrender at Baihata Chariali in Kamrup district.

  • February 24: ULFA's Kamrup 'district commander' shot dead. On the same day, eight ULFA terrorists are arrested.

  • February 23: Six ULFA terrorists killed and three more injured in an encounter with security forces in Meghalaya, at Garobadha in the West Garo hills district, on the Assam-Meghalaya border.

  • February 12: ULFA threatens wild life campaigner Vivek Menon for campaigning against poaching of elephants and rhinos in the State.

  • February 2: Three ULFA terrorists were killed in an encounter in the Mazgaon area, Bongaigaon district. On the same day, 13 ULFA terrorists, including the outfit's 'foreign liaison officer', 'communication officer' and 'medical-in-charge', surrender at the Misa Army camp near Nagaon.

  • January 31: Four ULFA terrorists were killed in two separate encounters at Khangbari and Soneswar village.

  • January 26: 123 ULFA terrorists surrendered in Guwahati.

  • January 2: Three Surrendered ULFA (SULFA) men, including former ULFA leader Abinash Bordoloi, were killed by suspected ULFA terrorists in Nalbari district.

2000

  • December 17: Army sources claim that the ULFA chief, Paresh Baruah has been injured and his deputy, Raju Baruah killed in an internecine clash in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. However, Paresh Baruah later contacted news agencies and contradicted these reports.

  • December 13: I D Swami, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, speaking in the Parliament, confirms the reports that ULFA has been procuring arms from the Chinese Army.

  • December 8: Brother of Sasha Choudhury, 'foreign secretary' of ULFA killed by unidentified assailants in Nalbari district.

  • December 7: 28 Hindi-speaking traders and farm workers from Bihar were killed by suspected ULFA terrorists near Sadiya.

  • December 6: 153 ULFA terrorists surrendered in Dispur. House of Paresh Baruah, ULFA chief, in Dhubri district attacked by unidentified miscreants.

  • November 28: Three non-Assamese, Biharis, were killed by ULFA terrorists in Tinsukia district.

  • November 26: Four non-Assamese, 'Biharis' were killed by ULFA terrorists.

  • October 27: ULFA terrorists massacred nine persons and injured 12 others in the Nalbari district.

  • October 23: 15 persons were killed by suspected ULFA terrorists killed in two separate incidents in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.

  • September 18: A news report stated that in a special joint operation conducted over a period of two weeks, eighteen ULFA terrorists were killed in Bhutan.

  • September 16: Two hundred ULFA terrorists operating in central Assam’s Nagaon and Morigaon districts surrendered with their ‘commander’ Pranab Bora alias Swapnil Deka Raja.

  • September 10: An ULFA terrorist, who was the main accused in the killing of Sanjoy Gosh, General Secretary of an NGO, AVARD-NE, killed in an encounter in Jorhat.

  • August 18: Four hardcore ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter with army in Tinsukia.

  • August 15: Three hundred ULFA terrorists including one of its top leaders Lohit Deuri surrendered before Assam’s Chief Minister. A 'commander' of ULFA, Anil Bora alias Basant Phukan killed in an encounter with police in Dibrugarh.

  • August 12: Four ULFA terrorists killed in an encounter with army in Tinsukia.

  • May 27: ULFA’s ‘Assistant Publicity Secretary’ who was also a Central Committee leader and the editor of Freedom, Swadhinata Phukan, alias Kabiranjan Saikia, killed in an encounter with security forces at Gendheli, Jorhat district.

  • March 14: Chief Minister Mahanta alleges that Pakistan's High Commissioner in Bangladesh is playing an active role in sending ULFA terrorists to Pakistan for arms training.

  • March 5: The then State Veterinary Minister Hiranya Konwar escaped an assassination attempt by ULFA terrorists near Moran, Sibsagar district.

  • February 27: ULFA terrorists killed the then State PWD and Forest Minister, Nagen Sharma. Four others were also killed in the attack, in Nalbari district.

1999

  • October 2: ULFA attacks Assam Revenue Minister, Dr. Zoii Nath Sharma's convoy. Sharma escapes unhurt while three Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) activists and a security guard are killed.

  • September 24: ULFA kills Dr. Pannalal Oswal, the BJP candidate for the Dhubri Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) seat, ahead of the polls.

  • May 11: Seven security force personnel were killed and two others injured in an ambush laid by ULFA terrorists in Nagaon district.

  • February 4: ULFA and three other Northeast insurgent groups launch websites (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7434/ulfa.htm).

1998

  • December 20: Six security force personnel and four civilians killed in an ambush laid by ULFA terrorists in Dhubri district.

  • September 28: Seven security force personnel killed in an ambush laid by ULFA terrorists in Goalpara district.

  • August 24: Three people killed in a massive bomb blast at Guwahati railway station. ULFA claims responsibility for the incident.

  • July 24: 51 ULFA terrorists surrender.

  • May 15: ULFA warns the Naga terrorist outfit, National Socialist Council of Nagaland Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) about encroaching on Assamese territory. The warning follows reported killing of a family member of a ULFA leader by the NSCN-IM.

1997

  • July 4: Prominent social activist Sanjoy Ghosh killed by suspected ULFA terrorists.

  • June 8: Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta escapes a bid on his life when ULFA terrorists attack his convoy in Guwahati.

1996

  • August 19: ULFA terrorists kill 13 security force personnel in three separate attacks.

  • May 18: ULFA terrorists gun down Ravi Kant Singh, Superitendent of Police (SP), Tinsukia district.

  • April 28: Lt. Col. Devendra Tyagi shot dead by ULFA terrorists in the Kamakhya temple, Guwahati.

  • April 25: ULFA terrorists kill a local Congress (I) leader and four others near Margherita town, Tinsukia district.

1995

  • November 23: Five security force personnel and their civilian driver killed in a ambush laid jointly by ULFA and Bodo Security Force (BdSF) terrorists.

  • August 3: ULFA terrorists kill eight security force personnel in an ambush in Kamrup district.

1994

  • November 20: Central government extends ban on ULFA.

  • June 29: Security forces arrest Pradip Gogoi, the Vice-chairman of ULFA.

1992

  • April 11: ULFA terrorists gun down ten security force personnel.

  • January 14: State government suspends Operation Rhino; ULFA agrees to participate in a political dialogue with the government.

1991

  • July 1: ULFA resumes terrorist activities, abducts 14 people, including an engineer, a national of (the erstwhile) Soviet Union.

1990

  • November 28: Central government imposes President’s rule in Assam as terrorist activities unleashed by ULFA reach unprecedented heights. The entire State of Assam is declared a "disturbed area"; ULFA banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967; army launches Operation Bajrang.

  • May 9: ULFA terrorists kill Surendra Paul, a leading tea planter, causing many tea estate managers to flee the State.

1979

  • April 7: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) founded under the leadership of Paresh Barua.

 

Note:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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