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February 26
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During an incident relating to
a drunken brawl, Thangcha Kipgen, ‘president’ of the KLA,
is killed at a hotel room in the Aizawl, capital of Mizoram. The
hotel manager said the KLA leader was fighting with two men in
the presence of two women before his death. Kipgen was strangled,
police stated. A report stated that around 14 cadres of seven
Kuki insurgent factions held a meeting at a tourist lodge in Aizawl
on February 24 to discuss unity among various Kuki underground
factions. The Police said it had no knowledge about the meeting,
but did not rule out the hands of a rival Kuki outfit in the killing.
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April 5
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One HNLC
cadre, Ossomon Rynjah alias Belu, is arrested by the Border Security
Force personnel from Andermanik border outpost in the Mamit district
while trying to cross over to Mizoram from Bangladesh. He confessed
that the HNLC has maintained links with the Tripura-based NLFT
since 2001.
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April 9
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Mizoram Government officials led
by the Chief Secretary Haukhum Hauzel hold talks with officials
of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on various aspects
of the resettlement of 950 former cadres of the BNLF and the BLFM.
The MHA officials reportedly promised to take up the problems
faced by Mizoram while providing health care, education, communication
and supply of drinking water to the former militants who are resettled
in the Mamit district.
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April 17
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Surrendered BLFM cadres threatened
to return to refugee camps in Tripura rather than wait for their
full rehabilitation in Mizoram. Alleging that they have not received
the rehabilitation package in full, former BLFM ‘foreign secretary’
Edwin Chorky threatened, "If by April there is no positive action
from the Centre as well as the state government, we will go back
to the refugee camps in Tripura."
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April 23
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Assam Rifles personnel arrested
three suspected cadres of the Myanmar-based Chin National Confederation
outfit from their hideout in the Lunglei district along the India-Myanmar
border. One locally-made .22 miniature rifle and several rounds
of ammunition are recovered from them.
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June 28
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Mizoram police arrest two Assam-based Black Widow
(BW) militants and six Bru Liberation Front Mizoram (BLFM) militants
when they recover arms, including 17 AK 47 and 56 rifles, from
a truck at Buichali village, 30 kilometres west of capital Aizawl.
INR 9, 84, 000 is also confiscated. The Superintendent of Police
of Special Branch of Aizawl district, K. Rozina, next day says
the truck was on its way to Cachar district in Assam from Champai
district in Mizoram. Sources said the arms were purchased at Chiang
Mai, an arms market along the Thailand-Myanmar border. Sources
add that the BW outfit is now using a large quantity of cash,
collected in the last few months through extortion, to buy modern
weapons from different places. The militant group is currently
reported to be in Kathmandu to explore the possibility of buying
arms from Nepal to south Assam. "We have held back our operation
against the DHD (J) as it had given us indications about further
extending the truce. The government is looking into the nitty-gritty
of responding to its ceasefire offer. But the haul has forced
us to take a fresh look at the situation," a source in the home
department says.
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July 2
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Gauhati High Court, following
an appeal from the Mizoram Government over its interim order of
June 13 that directed the State not to arrest or deport any Indian
nationals on grounds of not possessing the Inner Line Permit (ILP),
makes a modification allowing the State Government to ''verify
the credentials of those persons whom the respondents suspect
are not citizens''.
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July 5
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Excise officials at a checkgate
at Vairangte intercept a Silchar-bound vehicle and recover seven
AK-47 rifles and a rocket launcher with one shell. Officials believe
that the arms consignment was meant for the Black Widow outfit
in Assam. However, no one was arrested as the driver of the vehicle
managed to escape.
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September 2
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Four police personnel, including
an officer of Mizoram’s first battalion of India Reserve Police,
are killed when suspected militants ambush a vehicle at Saipum
village in the Kolasib district along the border with Assam. Three
other police personnel are injured while civilians who are in
the vehicle escape unhurt. Police suspect the involvement of the
HPC-D. "The HPC (D) insurgents might be the culprits in view of
the coming state assembly polls," an unnamed senior police officer
says.
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September 19
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One gelatin bomb explodes inside
the office of State Bank of India in capital Aizawl. While two
gelatin bombs targeting the Manager Accounts room are lobbed by
unidentified persons, one of them fails to explode. According
to police sources, one computer set and a hidden camera installed
on the ceiling of the office are destroyed in the explosion.
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September 24
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A top leader of a former Mizo
National Front (MNF) says in Aizawl that five groups in Mizoram,
all offsprings of the erstwhile militant outfit, have regrouped
to counter any activities of militant groups from across the border.
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October 6
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A school headmaster, Kishore Rongya
Chakma, abducted by six suspected militants from his residence
in Mizoram on October 4-evening, is rescued near the Bangladesh
border. An intelligence source says that the Bangladesh-based
United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) rescued the hostage and
captured two of the abductors inside Bangladesh and later handed
them over to the Mizoram police. The abductors, who were in army
camouflage armed with AK 47 rifles and revolvers, demanded INR
4, 00, 000 ransom to be paid before October 7-evening.
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