Incidents involving United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)

2008

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 ‘28^th battalion’.
July 7: The ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said that three pro-talks leaders of the ‘28^th 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 27^th 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 28^th 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.