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Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
Formation
The Achik National Volunteer
Council (ANVC) was formed in December 1995. It was proscribed on November
16, 2000. The outfit, signed a ceasefire agreement with the Govenrment
of India on JUly 23, 2004.
Objectives
The ANVC aims to carve
out a homeland called ‘Achik Land’ in the areas of Garo Hills. The proposed
‘Achik Land’ comprises the present districts of Garo Hills in Meghalaya
and a large chunk of Kamrup and Goalpara district of Assam. The ‘Garo
majority' in these areas is used as the argument for this demand. The
ANVC differs from the other Garo separatist organisation, Garo National
Council (GNC), which aims for a Garo State comprising only the three
districts of the Garo hills.
Leadership
Dilash
R. Marak is the ‘Chairman’ of the ANVC. The outfit’s ‘Commander-in-Chief’
is Jerome Momin. Among the other leaders are ‘General Secretary’, Wanding
R. Marak, ‘Publicity Secretary’, Artist Sengsrang Sangma, ‘Joint Secretary’,
Janggam Momin, and ‘Finance Secretary’ Rickie Sangma.
The
outfit divides its area of operation into several zones and each zone
is headed by a ‘commander’. The cadres who function as commanders of
different zones are: Chenang Marak (Eastern Zone), Goran Sangma (Southern
Zone), Batjang Shera (Western Zone), Ranggam Marak (West Khasi Hills).
Area
commanders function below the zonal commanders in the operational hierarchy.
Sohan D. Shira functions as the ‘Area Commander’ of Williamnagar.
The
leadership maintains strict vigil on the activities of its cadres. This
was manifest in the threats it issued in the year 2000 to its surrendering
cadres, who were doing so under the rehabilitation package announced
by the Union Government in the year 1998-99, and their family members.
The outfit also warned them not to join any other outfit.
Area of Operation
The ANVC, during its active
days, was active in the Garo Hills and in certain parts of the West
Khasi Hills. It maintained its headquarters at Cheram in the Garo hills
area. Among its activities were extortion from the business community
in the name of ‘fund collection’. Besides that, the outfit also pumped
fake currency into circulation.
Linkages
The outfit was reportedly
formed with the assistance of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland
– Issak Muivah (NSCN-IM). However, it has severed its entire links with
the Naga outfit as well as with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland
(NDFB). The outfit now maintains links with the United Liberation Front
of Asom (ULFA), especially after the latter wound up some of its camps
in Bhutan and is in the process of relocating them in the Garo Hills.
The ANVC has some of its camps in Bangladesh. It is also involved in
fake currency circulation initiated by the Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency. In Meghalaya, ANVC,
along with the other prominent outfit, HNLC, abets this infusion of
fake currency and in turn receives considerable operating funds. Extortion
remains the major source of funding for the ANVC. Incidents of abduction
are frequent in the state. Money is regularly collected from the trading
community of the area in the name of ‘fund collection’. However, extortion
remains the major source of funding for the ANVC. Incidents of abduction
are frequent in the State. Money is regularly collected from the trading
community of the area in the name of ‘fund collection’.
Peace Process
On
July 23, 2004 a cease-fire agreement was signed between the Government
of India and the ANVC for a period of six months. A seven member ANVC
team, with the notable absence of Chairman Dilash Marak and Commander-in-Chief
Jerome Momin signed the agreement in New Delhi. The agreement has since
been periodically extended.
A
ceasefire-monitoring cell has been set up at the Coal India Complex
at Araimile in Tura, headquarter of the West Garo Hills district. Two
designated camps for housing the surrendered militants have also been
set up at Samada and Chokpot in the Garo Hills region.
Incidents
2008
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December 3: Shillong Times quoting police
source reports that the ANVC is carrying out an extortion drive
with support from the NSCN-IM in the coal belt areas of West Khasi
Hills and East Garo Hills. According to police sources, the activities
of ANVC and NSCN-IM are at their peak during the winter season as
this is the period when a large quantity of coal is exported to
Bangladesh resulting in a huge business transaction. "The ANVC and
NSCN (IM) equally share the extorted amount," police sources state.
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November 23: Meghalaya Police said that the newly
formed militant outfits, the Atong Liberation Army (ALA) in South
Garo Hills, and Achik National Security Defence (ANSD) in West Khasi
Hills, are being used by the NSCN-IM and ANVC for carrying out an
extortion drive in coal belt areas. Police sources said the ALA
and ANSD were extorting money from coal-laden trucks and coal exporters
in West Khasi Hills and South Garo Hills. "We have already started
our operations to destroy these two militant outfits before they
could manage to make their presence felt in the State," sources
said.
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October 17: Police recover explosives, a camera,
CDs and incriminating documents, including demand notes, belonging
to ANVC from a rented house at Chinengree village near Shahlang
in the West Khasi Hills district. The documents recovered from the
house indicate that money was extorted by the outfit from various
parts of the district. The ANVC cadres, however, manage to escape
from the incident site.
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July 23 The Union Government extends the cease-fire
with the ANVC for an indefinite period for the first time, unlike
the earlier periodical review of the cease-fire with the militant
group.
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May 29: Surrendered ANVC cadres asked
the Meghalaya Government to provide them with recruitment in 5th
India Reserve Battalion and monetary assistance. They also alleged
that the former State Government did not have the commitment to
rehabilitate all surrendered insurgents. They say that the previous
D.D. Lapang-led Government had given "more importance" to the Shillong-based
former cadre of the HNLC than those from the Garo Hills. The former
ANVC cadres have sought Government jobs for at least 25 of them
and financial assistance for the others to start their own entrepreneurship.
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May 28: The LAEF's
new 'commander-in-chief' Daria Sangma, while speaking to the media
over phone, reconfirms the Meghalaya Police’s claim that the LAEF
has forged ties with the Assam-based Black Widow (BW) outfit. He
said that it was in the interest of consolidating LAEF to pursue
its goal of a ‘separate Garo state’. The report added that a group
of five LAEF cadres recently returned from arms training organised
by the BW in Assam. Daria also said the Garo outfit had recently
held a general council meeting in the West Khasi Hills in which
he was appointed the new ‘army chief’ in the presence of LAEF ‘chairman’
Darong T. Marak who, according to police, had been killed by his
own colleagues long ago. The LAEF general council meeting is said
to have also appointed one Khanam D. Shira as ‘general secretary’
of the outfit, besides a former ANVC cadre Nikseng Sangma holding
an important portfolio within the group. Nikseng had deserted the
ANVC and joined with former ANVC 'eastern area commander' Sohan
D. Shira to help the LAEF during the early days of its formation.
Following the killing of the then ‘chairman’ Peter Marak in the
hands of police and subsequent surrender of Sohan before the government,
Nikseng reportedly fled into the LAEF stronghold of West Khasi Hills.
Daria also says tells the media that the general council meeting
had taken up several resolutions one of which was to turn ‘pro-active’
in its operations against certain organisations aligning with the
government to wipe out the outfit.
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April 7: One ANVC militant, Amjad A. Sangma, is
arrested by the Meghalaya Police during a search operation at Williamnagar
in the East Garo Hills district. One 9-mm pistol was recovered from
his possession.
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February 29: The Congress party candidate Mukul
Sangma complained to the Returning Officer that the ANVC and police
are aiding the National Congress Party candidates from Ampati constituency
in the Garo Hills. Mukul said that ANVC cadres led by Ronald Sangma
threatened people and Amapati police station officer in-charge A.M.
Sangma had taken no cognizance of the offence. He mentioned that
his supporters were also assaulted.
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February 28: The ANVC said that it will remain neutral
in the Legislative Assembly elections scheduled to be held on March
3, 2008. In a letter signed by 'chairman' Dilash Marak alias S.
M. Marak, the outfit stated: "Rumours will always be there and the
ANVC respect and recognise the people's 'Right' to choose their
own representatives and shall remain neutral as far as the 2008
assembly elections are concerned."
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January 20: One ANVC cadre, Dorang G. Momin, is
arrested by the Meghalaya police personnel when they neutralise
a hideout at Tarajak village in the West Khasi Hills district. However,
10 militants, including two persons belonging to the Naga community,
managed to escape from the incident site. An AK-47 rifle and an
M-16 rifle, other arms and ammunition are recovered from the hideout.
2007
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December 12: The Joint Monitoring Committee meeting
of the representatives of the ANVC, Meghalaya Government and Union
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was held in the national capital
New Delhi. The meeting expressed concern over the reported extortion
being carried out by the outfit and stressed the need to strictly
adhere to ground rules of the cease-fire agreement signed on July
23, 2004.
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November 22: Shillong Times reports that
the ‘organising secretary’ of the ANVC, identified as Bernard N.
Marak alias Torik Jangnang, is released. On August 17, he was arrested
for his involvement in extortion at Tura market in the West Garo
Hills district, and was later lodged in the Jowai jail under the
Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act for almost three months.
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September 9: An unidentified civilian is shot dead
by suspected militants at Chachatgre in the East Garo Hills district.
He was reportedly working as a domestic help of Sohan D. Shira,
a surrendered ANVC leader.
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September 6: One Achik National Liberation Front
Army militant, Nabat Marak, is shot dead by suspected ANVC militants
at Chidimit village near Songsak in the East Garo Hills district.
Meghalaya Police stated that ANVC militants after killing Marak
buried his body at the village. He reportedly deserted the ANVC
in 2005 and later joined the Achik National Liberation Front Army
outfit.
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August 25: A self-styled 'area commander' of the
ANVC, identified as Sohan D. Shira, surrenders in an unspecified
place in Meghalaya.
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August 17: The organising secretary of the ANVC,
Bernard Marak, is arrested from Tura in the West Garo Hills district
on charges of extortion. Police said several complaints had been
lodged against Marak, also known as Torik Jangang, by the truckers.
Three of his associates arrested on August 16 had also confessed
to their involvement in the racket. They had been collecting INR
20 each from each truck plying in Tura posing themselves as members
of the truckers' association. Marak was also manning the liaison
office of the militant group at Tura.
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May 23: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal
extended the ban on the ANVC and HNLC for two more years due to
their continued anti-national and anti-social activities. The new
order will remain in force till May 15, 2009.
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April 14: The two-day meeting of the Tribunal to
look into the proscription on the HNLC and ANVC concluded. Official
sources said that there was no representation from the HNLC and
only the ANVC contested the case aiming at lifting the proscription.
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January 17: An ANVC cadre, Onkang Sangma, who had
deserted the camp at Chokpot in the South Garo Hills district in
2006, surrenders at Williamnagar in the East Garo Hills district.
2006
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November 9: The Union Government extends the proscription
on ANVC.
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October 25: The ANVC fails to respond to the appeal
made by Meghalya Chief Minister, J. D. Rymbai, and Home Minister,
R. G. Lyngdoh, to lay down arms, before the State Government could
convince the Union Government to lift the ban imposed on the outfit,
indicates report.
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September 28: The ANVC decides to discuss with the
Meghalaya Government the conditions of disarmament for lifting the
ban on the outfit. "We will have to discuss the matter before taking
any decision in this regard," said ‘publicity secretary’ Arist Sangma.
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September 11: The newly formed Garo outfit, Achik
National Liberation Front Army (ANLFA), allegedly accuse the Meghalaya
Government of being soft on the ANVC, which is currently under a
cease-fire with the Union and State Governments. The ANLFA alleges
that the State Government is turning a blind eye to the ‘atrocities’
committed by the ANVC cadres in Garo Hills.
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August 31: The self-styled ‘chairman’ of the ANVC,
Dilash Marak, figures in the list of wanted militants, residing
in Bangladesh, handed over by the Border Security Force (BSF) to
the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) during their meeting in Shillong.
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August 31: Two political parties, the Hill State
People's Democratic Party from Khasi Hills and Garo National Council
from Garo Hills, at a joint statement demand the creation of separate
provinces for the two major tribes of the State. Both the parties
are opposed to the idea of ‘Greater Garoland’ demanded by the ANVC.
However, the ANVC criticizes the joint proclamation of the two parties
as a "political propaganda".
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August 28: The ANVC states that it has discussed the issue of Garo
Hills with the Union Government in New Delhi in July 2006. The ‘publicity
secretary’ of the outfit, Arist Sangma, said, "We submitted our
memorandum and said separate Garoland was our demand."
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August 8: Meghalaya Government starts the Disaster
Awareness and Search & Rescue Traning programme for ANVC cadres
at Tura in the West Garo Hills district.
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July 11:The cease-fire agreement between
the Government and ANVC is extended by one more year. An agreement
to this effect is reached during the Joint Monitoring Group held
in New Delhi on an unspecified day. The ANVC entered into a tripartite
cease-fire agreement on July 23, 2004.
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May 30: Meghalaya Home Minister H.
Donkupar R Lyngdoh, while responding negatively on the request of
the ANVC to the Union Government to lift the ban imposed on it,
says, "Let people be satisfied with their non-violence and
peaceful existence." "No doubt, the illegal activities
of the ANVC has reduced to a great extent; but until people are
satisfied, the ban should continue," adds the Home Minister.
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May 28: The ANVC asks the Union Government
to withdraw its ban on the outfit to facilitate peace talks.
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May 10: The ANVC, while criticizing
other Garo outfits such as the ANLF and United UANF, terms them
as "group of extortionists and dacoits who have no ideology
or principle." "Both UANF and ANLF are only after money
and they are not fighting for the cause of the people of Garo Hills,"
said ANVC 'publicity secretary' Arist Sengsrang Sangma. "We
are fighting for a separate state and our demand is very much within
the framework of the Indian constitution while the so called UANF
has claimed that the organisation is fighting for independence which
is not at all acceptable both to the government of India and the
Garos as well," he added.
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May 1: Chief Minister D. D. Lapang,
while expressing the State Government’s willingness to hold
talks with the militant outfits, says, "But we have no say
on the issues, which are totally depended on the initiative of the
Union Home Ministry." He further adds, "We have to patiently
wait and see things to happen because whatever steps that have been
followed with the ANVC, the same thing will be done with HNLC."
- April 7: An ANVC cadre is killed by
three of his colleagues at Tura in the West Garo Hills district.
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April 5: The JMG meeting held at the
BSF premises in Guwahati decides to conduct a joint survey for setting
up a designated camp for the ANVC cadres in the South Garo Hills
of Meghalaya by the end of April 2006. The existing camp at Jetra
in the Ri Bhoi district will be dismantled following complaints
from paramilitary forces.
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March 27: Meghalaya Chief Minister
D.D. Lapang, while responding to the issue of negotiations with
militant outfits, informs the Legislative Assembly that a "Joint
Monitoring Group (JMG) has been formed to monitor the cease-fire
with the ANVC. The next JMG meeting will be held on April 5 in Guwahati,
said, while adding that, “We are thinking of adopting similar pattern
as the first step to initiate dialogue with HNLC.”
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March 24: The ANVC calls for the formation
of a separate state known as the 'Garoland State' for the Garos
in Meghalaya. The 'publicity secretary' of the outfit, Arist Sengsrang
Sangma, says that it is high time for all Garos to come under one
umbrella and demand a separate state.
2005
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December 14: Union Minister of State
for Home Affairs, S. Reghupathy, while speaking in the Rajya Sabha
(Upper House of Parliament), says that cease fire and suspension
of operations is on with ANVC along with certain other militant
outfits of the North East.
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November 16: Police kills Tiko Areng,
a militant belonging to the ANLF, a splinter faction of the ANVC
at Dongranggre near Shallang in the West Khasi Hills district. One
9mm pistol and a grenade are recovered from the incident site.
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November 9: ANVC 'publicity secretary',
Arist Sengsrang Sangma, says, "We have told the cadres that those
who are willing to leave can do so without deserting or running
away from the camps." Commenting on reports that some former ANVC
cadres have formed a new outfit, the ANLF, he says, "We will try
to neutralise ANLF with the police, otherwise there will be law
and order problem in Garo Hills." He further says that the relation
between the police and the ANVC has improved considerably over the
past few months.
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November 6: Two ANVC cadres, M. Marak
and N. Momin, who have escaped from the Chokpot cease-fire camp,
are killed by a joint team of Meghalaya Police and the army near
Thapha in the East Garo Hills district. Three Chinese-made hand
grenades and three rounds of AK-47 ammunition, besides documents
such as extortion notes and money receipts are recovered from the
incident site.
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November 4: Meghalaya Police kills
two hardcore ANVC cadres, Rarik Sangma and Rabi Marak, and arrests
two others at Bangsiminol under Mendipather police station in the
Garo Hills district. Police sources informed that the slain militants
are part of a group of nine ANVC cadres who have deserted the outfit's
camp at Samanda in East Garo Hills and Chokpot in South Garo Hills
and have made attempts to form a new outfit, the AN LF. Police also
recover an AK-56 rifle with 20 rounds of ammunition, three hand
grenades and an SLR with 17 rounds of live ammunition from the incident
site.
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September 4: ANVC threatens to call
off the cease-fire agreement with the State Government protesting
against the latter's constant allegation of truce violation by the
outfit. The outfit's 'Publicity Secretary' Arist Sangma said, "We
express concern over the state government's often repeated statement
that the ANVC is engaged in extortions… If the government continues
with its wild allegations, we will be forced to go back to the jungle."
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July 18: The cease-fire between ANVC
and the Union Government is extended for a year with effect from
July 23, 2005. The decision is taken following a meeting between
the ANVC leaders and MHA officials at Patgaon in the Guwahati city
of Assam. The ANVC is asked to submit names of its cadres taking
shelter in the two designated camps in East and South Garo Hills
to the Union Government and also keep its arms and ammunition in
safe custody.
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July 6: Meghalaya Government sends
a note to the Union Government detailing the acts of cease-fire
violation by the ANVC. Chief Secretary P. J. Bazeley said that the
State Government would agree to extend the cease-fire agreement
beyond July 23 provided the truce ground rules are framed and strictly
adhered to. He says, "We have told the Centre that we will not be
a party to the cease-fire with the ANVC if there are no proper ground
rules."
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May 11: Two ANVC cadres, Ganesh Sangma
and Nicholas Sangma, and one of their associates are arrested from
Borsora in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya.
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April 19: Meghalaya Chief Minister,
D D Lapang, while addressing a press conference in Shillong, said
the ANVC is violating the cease-fire agreement.
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April 14: Meghalaya Home Minister,
Mukul Sangma, says that failure to settle issues relating to the
cease-fire ground rules have led to the delay in starting the peace
process with the proscribed ANVC.
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March 30: A tribunal makes recommendations
for the extension of the proscription on the HNLC and ANVC for another
year.
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March 8: Meghalaya Home Minister, Mukul
Sangma, says that the State Government will begin peace talks with
the ANVC only after the outfit adheres to the principles of the
cease-fire.
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January 17: The ceasefire agreement
between the Government and the ANVC is extended by six months. The
agreement is reached during the JMG meeting held at Tura in the
West Garo Hills district. The duration of the present ceasefire
is set to expire on January 23.
2004
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December 23: As a first step towards
fulfilling the cease-fire ground rules, the ANVC submits a list
of 100 of its cadres to the State Government. Informing this in
Shillong, the State Home Minister, H.D.R. Lyngdoh, says that these
cadres will be accommodated in the two designated camps. However,
the outfit is yet to submit the list of arms and ammunition, adds
Lyngdoh.
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December 22: Union Government extends
the ban on two militant outfits of Meghalaya, the ANVC and HNLC.
In an official notification in Shillong, the MHA cites the reasons
for extension stating that although the ANVC agrees to abjure violence
and expresses willingness for talks within the framework of Constitution,
it continues "collection of funds and extortion, acquisition of
sophisticated weapons and recruitment of new cadre."
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December 10: Meghalaya Government asks
the ANVC chairman Dilash Marak and 'commander-in-chief' Jerome Momin
to confine themselves to the Garo Hills area.
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December 9: The JMG meeting between
the banned ANVC and the representatives of the MHA and the Meghalaya
Government takes place in New Delhi to discuss the 'ground rules'.
Following the second round of the tripartite talks of JMG, the ANVC
agrees to submit the full list of its cadres to the State Government
by December 20 to facilitate the implementation of cease-fire ground
rules. The cadres will stay in two designated camps in the Garo
Hills region.
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July 23: ANVC signs a tripartite agreement
with the Union and Meghalaya Governments for immediate suspension
of hostilities. The agreement is signed by the Secretary, Border
Management in the MHA, A.K.Rastogi, Chief Secretary of Meghalaya,
P.J. Bazely, and representatives of the ANVC led by its 'General
Secretary' Wanding K Marak.
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July 2: The abducted Indian Forest
Service official, D Sathyen, is released unharmed in the South Garo
Hills district of Meghalaya after about a fortnight amidst claims
by the State Government that no ransom was paid to the abductors.
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June 24: ANVC denies any links to the
abduction of D. Sathiyan, Indian Forest Service officer posted at
the Balpakram National Park. The outfit's 'publicity secretary',
Arist Sengsrang Sangma, says that the outfit does not have any connection
with the incident.
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June 22: ANVC demands Rupees 15 lakh
as ransom for the release of abducted D. Satyan.
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June 18: Suspected ANVC terrorists
abduct Forest Officer, D. Satyan, from his house at Baghmara in
South Garo Hills district.
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June 1: Suspected ANVC terrorists shot
dead a trader from Tura in Meghalaya for failing to pay extortion
money demanded by them.
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June 1: Suspected ANVC terrorists kill
a trader from Tura in the West Garo Hill district.
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May 6: Meghalaya Police arrests an
ANVC terrorist, involved in truck burning incidents at Borsora on
April 28, from Nonghyllam in the West Khasi Hills district.
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March 16: One ANVC terrorist is killed
in an encounter with the security forces at Kajinagar in the West
Garo Hills district.
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February 20: Suspected ANVC cadres
release Borsora Land Custom Station Superintendent, L.H. Faihrem,
from captivity at Tila Basti in the East Khasi Hills district. He
was abducted on October 9, 2003.
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February 6: Meghalaya Chief Minister,
D D Lapang, accuses former Lok Sabha Speaker and Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) leader P A Sangma of conniving with the proscribed ANVC
to remain in State politics.
2003
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December 15: A woman ANVC cadre, identified
as Tresy Sangma, wife of the Mendipather 'area commander' of the
outfit, is arrested near Mendipather in the East Garo Hills district.
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November 16: Meghalaya Police arrest
a self-styled corporal of the ANVC, identified as Havel Sangma,
from Bologgitok village in the West Garo Hills district and recover
a Japanese wireless hand-set and a tape recorder from his possession.
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November 10: Suspected ANVC terrorists
kill three civilians at Rajapal in the East Garo Hills district.
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October 28: ANVC 'commander-in-chief'
Jerome Momin indicates that the outfit "would continue its struggle
for a greater Garoland and not give in to any moves initiated by
the government towards a reconciliation."
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October 1: Two Achik National Volunteer
Council (ANVC) terrorists surrender before the police in Shillong,
and at Baghmara in South Garo Hills respectively.
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September 30: ANVC decides not to participate
in the Meghalaya Government backed peace talks with the Garo Baptist
Convention (GPC) after the September 26 incident.
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September 26: Security force personnel
kill eight ANVC terrorists in two separate encounters in the West
Garo Hills district and recover one AK-56 rifle with twelve rounds
of live ammunition, one Pakistan-made.32 pistol with seven rounds
of ammunition, two Chinese hand grenades and some incriminating
documents from the encounter site.
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September 24: Meghalaya Chief Minister
Lapang offers truce to the ANVC and HNLC.
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September 10: ANVC terrorists in Meghalaya
release abducted Bajengdoba SBI Branch Manager after nine days of
captivity.
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August 7: An ANVC sympathizer alleged
to be involved in supplying arms to the outfit is killed during
an encounter at Rewak in the South Garo Hills district.
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July 16: Two ANVC terrorists, including
a ‘commander’, are killed during an encounter at Bikonggre village
in the West Garo Hills district while three others escape from the
incident site.
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June 27: Meghalaya Police arrests former
State Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader
Adolf Lu Hitler Marak at Laban in Shillong for his alleged links
with the ANVC.
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May 15: Four ANVC terrorists are arrested
from a hideout at Ampati in the West Garo Hills district.
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May 4: Meghalaya Police unearths an
ANVC ‘finance cell’ at Asimggre village in West Garo Hills district
and seizes incriminating documents indicating to an extortion racket
being run by the outfit in the area.
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May 01: Suspected ANVC cadres abduct
two persons from Balachand, West Garo Hills district.
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April 29: Three ANVC terrorists, including
an ‘area commander’, surrender before the State police at Sonapahar
village in West Khasi Hills district with two AK-56 rifles, two
wireless sets, four grenades and 216 rounds of AK-47 ammunition.
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April 2: Four suspected ANVC terrorists,
including a woman cadre, abduct a businessman at Ampati, West Garo
Hills district.
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March 24: NDFB sets free the four remaining
coal exporters, following the escape of two other exporters from
its unidentified hideout in Meghalaya. ANVC and NDFB terrorists
abducted the six coal exporters and a customs official Dipak Mahanta
from Gasupara in South Garo Hills district on February 28.
A group of six ANVC terrorists
abduct two teachers of a local school at Katuligaon near Ampati in
the West Garo Hills district.
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February 26: Security forces rescue
four abducted persons, including the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau
Assistant Director Deben Singh Rana at Damalgiri, Garobada police
post limits in Tura, West Garo Hills district.
ANVC terrorists abduct
a Government official at Bajengdoba in East Garo Hills district.
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January 14: Suspected ANVC terrorists
kill three persons in Songsak, near Williamnagar, East Garo Hills
district, for allegedly using the outfit’s name to extort money
from local residents.
2002
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December 12: A businessman abducted
from Nidhanpur, Assam, flees from an ANVC hideout despite being
hit by bullet in the leg.
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December 9: Union Ministry of Home
Affairs (MHA) establishes contact with ANVC and confirms the possibility
peace talks in the future, most likely in Delhi in the year 2003.
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December 1: Terrorist-attack on a passenger
bus in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, injures two passengers. The ANVC's
hand is suspected in the attack.
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November 12: ANVC relates the 1996-Wakabua
raid to the rise of terrorism in Garo Hills. At the same time, the
outfit's southern command in-charge and publicity-wing head Sohan
D Shira says the September 9, 2002-killings of Deputy Superintendent
of Police Paichon Sangma and five others, near Chokpot, was in retaliation
to the Wakabua camp raid.
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October 05: Meghalaya Chief Minister
F A Khonglam discloses he is in possession of certain evidence against
three Ministers from the Garo Hills region having nexus with the
proscribed ANVC terrorist outfit. He says they all belong to the
Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
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September 24: An ANVC terrorist is
killed and another arrested by security forces (SF) in Dobu, East
Garo hills district, following a prolonged gun-battle between group
of five terrorists and a joint team of Police and Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) personnel. Three more terrorists escape. A 9mm
carbine, 11 rounds of ammunition and a US-made carbine are recovered
from the clash-site.
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September 9: Six Meghalaya police personnel,
including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), are killed in
an ambush laid by ANVC terrorists at Chocpot, in the Garo Hills
of Meghalaya.
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July 1: An ANVC terrorist is killed
in an encounter with police near Dudhnoi in Assam. Five ANVC terrorists
surrender at the Mendipather police station in the presence of Church
leaders, in East Garo Hills.
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June 30: Meghalaya Forest Minister
Monindra Rava's son, Devajyoti Rava, and four others are killed
by unidentified, armed-men at a place between Belguri and Abhiram
Para near Tikrikilla. Police suspect the ANVC's hand in the attack.
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June 11: Two ANVC terrorists are killed
in an encounter at Amarsang village, near Kulung, under Borsora
police station limits, West Khasi Hills district. Two AK-47 rifles,
a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), a Chinese rifle, two 12-bore guns and
a large quantity of ammunition are recovered from the site of the
encounter.
ANVC terrorists injured in an encounter in South Garo Hills. Police
recovered Rs 1,54,000 in cash from the clash-site.
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May 12: Three Nepalese settlers are,
and seven more injured in an attack by the ANVC terrorist outfit
at the Tinali settlement near Phulbari in the West Garo Hills district
of Meghalaya.
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April 1: ANVC terrorist killed in encounter
near Rangagre village under Tura police station limits.
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March 14: Suspected ANVC terrorists
kill eight persons, including four policemen in West Garo Hills.
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March 1: ANVC terrorists abduct a leading
businessman and a manager of a construction company from Chibinang,
West Garo Hills.
2001
1999
August: Two policemen killed
when suspected ANVC terrorists blow up two jeeps at Aniaga village in
the East Garo hills.
1998
October: Five security
force personnel killed and over Rs. 100,000 looted during an attack
in East Garo hills.
February: Two police personnel
killed and Rs. 800,000 looted in an ambush laid by ANVC terrorists,
the East Garo Hills.
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