|
2010
- January 7: Four HNLC cadres, including
Cherishterfield Thangkhiew, General Secretary
of the outfit and Sainkupar Nongtraw, the
publicity secretary are pushed back to India
from Bangladesh.
- January 14: Meghalaya Police arrest two
top leaders of Hynniewtrep Liberation Front
(HLF) including the self-styled 'Commander-in-chief'
identified as Mawthoh and its chairman Shembhalang
Dkhar from Demthring and Lum Jingsuk localities
in Shillong respectively.
- January 15: Assam Police arrest a leader
of the ULFA from Woodland Hospital in Shillong.
Identified as Pradip Kalita, he was believed
to be a member of the 27th Battalion of the
outfit and was admitted into the hospital
on January 13 for malaria.
- January 16: Two activists of Liberation
Achik Elite Force are killed and another injured
in a gunfight with security forces in Songsak
area bordering South Garo Hills and West Khasi
Hills district of Meghalaya.
- January 17: Police arrest Randall Nongrum,
a cadre of the newly formed militant organization
Hynniewtrep Liberation Front (HLF). Nongrum
is arrested from Madanrting.
- January 18: A cadre of Hynniewtrep Liberation
Front, Livingson Khongsti alias 'Mike' alias
'Leesen' surrender before the Superintendent
of Police, East Khasi Hills.
- January 23: A National Youth Award winner
is arrested in Shillong on charges of having
links with the Hynniewtrep National Liberation
Council (HNLC). According to the Police, Andreas
H Marwein, who had received the National Youth
Award last year, was arrested last week for
allegedly working as an over ground worker
of the militant outfit. According to police,
Andreas had collected nearly Rs 1 crore over
the last five years for the HNLC and helped
mobilize youths to join the rebel group.
- January 27: Nine insurgents of the proscribed
Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC),
are arrested by the police during a raid in
West Khasi Hills district. Among those arrested,
includes the area commander of the outfit
Alex Harshah.
- March 25: One Meghalaya minister and some
MLAs from Garo hills receive extortion notes
from the nascent militant outfit Garo National
Liberation Army (GNLA).
- June 26: Guwahati City Police arrest four
militants including two cadres of UNLF and
two cadres of Liberation of Achik Elite Force
(LAEF), a newly-formed outfit of Garo Hills.
- June 26: Security forces in Garo Hills with
assistance from the army achieve its first
major breakthrough against the newly created
Garo militant outift called Garo National
Liberation Army (GNLA) by gunning down two
of its senior leaders who were returning to
a camp deep inside the jungles of Kharkutta
in East Garo Hills district bordering Assam.
The deceased are identified as senior GNLA
member Patrick Marak who is also known as
Jong and Janggam in the GNLA.
- June 30: New Delhi extends the Suspension
of Operations (SoO) agreement with the Achik
National Volunteers’ Council (ANVC),
for a further period of three months. The
extension came in the wake of the expiry of
the truce with the Government on June 30.
- July 14: Two separatist rebels of the Liberation
A'chik Elite Force (LAEF) are arrested from
Wage-Asi Imbangi area under East Garo Hills
district in western Meghalaya.
- July 16: The Garo National Liberation Army,
a militant group operating in Meghalaya, sends
extortion demands ranging from Rs 30-40 lakh
each to three government officials through
mobile text messages. The outfit has sent
the extortion demands to the district transport
officer and block development officer in East
Garo Hills district, while a sub-divisional
officer (civil) at Resubelpara received an
extortion note signed by GNLA finance secretary
Jagpil Sangma.
- August 1: Two separatist rebels of the Liberation
A'chik Elite Force (LAEF) surrender along
with a huge cache of ammunition in Meghalaya.
- August 5: Aiborlang Khartani alias Saddam
Hussein, a top rebel member of the outlawed
Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC),
which is demanding a sovereign Khasi homeland
in eastern Meghalaya, is arrested along with
two AK-47 rifles and ammunition.
- August 5: A separatist rebel of the Liberation
A'chik Elite Force (LAEF) surrenders along
with one revolver and five rounds of .32 live
ammunition in East Garo Hills district.
2009
- January 4: One NDFB militant succumbs to his injuries, who
was arrested yesterday after being wounded
in an encounter with the Police in the Shohksih
coal mining area of Jaintia Hills District.
The deceased militant hails from Churachi
village of Nalbari
District in Assam,
and was involved along with militants of the
HNLC in an extortion drive in the coalfields
of Jaintia Hills District.
- January 8: Five suspected KYKL militants, including two
women cadres, are nabbed by Meghalaya police
from a rented house in the Malki area of Shillong.
- Jan 9: Meghalaya police apprehend five KYKL ultras from
Manipur, including two women, from Malki locality.
The police have identified those apprehended
as: Ningthajan Romen (23), Thokthom Ibomacha
(24), Hao Bijan Dingku Singh (34) Haobjan
Maipoki (21) and Chanchal Bino Bala (32).
- January 28: Three members of KSU's Umrasong Unit under Khliehriat
Civil Sub-Division are allegedly kidnapped
by people from Green Valley Industry Private
Limited. The KSU activists who have gone ‘missing’
are K Rymbai, S Swer
and J Bareh.
- February 4: Three suspected cadres, including a woman, of
the Manipur-based Peoples Liberation Army
(PLA) are apprehended from the Indo-Bangladesh
border along Meghalaya by BSF during its intensified
operations and anti-infiltration drive on
the international border. Two of them were
identified as Mema (48) and her son Vinod
(15), residents of Imphal in Manipur, while
the third was Narayan Singh (25) of Bangladesh’s
Sunamganj district.
- February 4: A mother and son suspected to be members of
the proscribed Manipur-based Peoples Liberation
Army (PLA) militant outfit are arrested by
BSF jawans in Meghalaya while attempting to
cross-over to Bangladesh. One Bangladeshi
national, Narayan Singh, who was detailed
to guide both the mother and son, is also
nabbed.
- February 12: BSF personnel arrest a suspected PLA cadre,
Lisum Premjeet, from Dawki in the Jaintia
Hills District along the India-Bangladesh
border.
- February 12: One woman cadre of the HNLC, identified as
Marbilas Syiemlieh, surrenders before the
East Khasi Hills District Police in capital
Shillong.
- February 17: Two PLA militants are arrested by the Border
Security Force personnel from Shella in the
East Khasi Hills District. They are identified
as Krishna Mohan from Thoubal District and
Sushil alias Santi from Bishnupur District
in Manipur.
- February 19: BSF personnel arrest four PLA militants, including
two female cadres, and a Bangladeshi 'transborder
courier' of the outfit, from Beltoli area
in the East Khasi Hills District along the
India-Bangladesh border.
- March 1: At Dawki three HNLC female cadres surrender before
the Superintendent of Police of Jaintia Hills
District, M.K. Singh.
- March 4: PREPAK militants abduct two children, Thongam Noba
Singh and Teson Rakesh Singh from Thoubal
District of Manipur.
- March 5: The two children abducted by PREPAK militants on
March 4 manage to escape from the confinement
of the militants at Nongthymmai in the capital
Shillong.
- March 10: One HNLC cadre surrenders before the Superintendent
of Police of East Khasi Hills District.
- March 24: A camp of the LAEF outfit at Tajal area near Shahlang
in the West Khasi Hills District is neutralised
by Meghalaya Police.
- March 30: Kalwin Lyngdoh (19), a UPDS militant, surrenders
before the Police at Khanduli village in Jaintia
Hills District.
- March 31: According
to a report in The
Sentinel, illegal traders along the Khasi-Jaintia
hills are victims of an extortion drive carried
out by the HNLC.
- April 6: Two HNLC militants
– Andreas Sangma and his wife Angelina
Shylla – surrender before the Police
at Shillong.
- April 12: HNLC declares 24 hrs bandh from 6 pm on April
12 protesting Sonia Gandhi’s Visit.
- May 8: UPA Government revokes President’s rule in
Meghalaya, which was imposed in the state
on March 19, 2009.
- May 2: Meghalaya Police,
in collaboration with the Assam Police arrest
two BW militants, identified as Aten Haflongbar
and Darshing Rongpi, from a vehicle along
the National Highway at Mawblei
village on Assam-Meghalaya border. INR five
million in cash, reportedly to be used for
striking an arms deal, are recovered from
their possession.
- June
23: A suspected HUJI cadre is arrested by
the BSF from the bordering area of Balajan
in Dhubri .
- June 29: Three NDFB militants
are arrested from Bamundanga village in Tikrikilla
area by West Garo Hills Police.
- July 1: Two Liberation
A'chik Elite Force (LAEF) cadres are arrested
by a special police team from Byrnihat and
Police Bazaar area in Shillong.
- July 7: Three Liberation
A’chik Elite Force (LAEF) militants
are arrested in East Garo Hills district while
extorting money of Rs 5 lakh from an unidentified
local businessman.
- July 18: Three FCI officials and another
person are abducted by the Unification faction
of the NSCN from a hotel in Dimapur. July
19: The abducted FCI officials and another
person are released by the unification faction
of the NSCN.
- August 12: HNLC calls for a 24-hour general
strike from 6 pm on August 14 to 6 pm on August
15.
- August 21: Suspected ULFA militants abduct
the manager and chief engineer of Virgo cement
company from a place between Damas and Damra
in East Garo Hills.
- August 24: Intelligence sources say that
the two officials of Virgo cement company
are being held captive by suspected ULFA militants
as they had allegedly refused to pay Rs.20
lakh to the outfit.
- September 11: Centre rejects a demand for
a separate Garo state by Achik National Volunteers
Council (ANVC).
- September 20: The Home department of Meghalaya
government says that the state government
is ready to examine the demand of Achik National
Volunteers Council (ANVC) for an autonomous
status for Garo hills.
- September 30: Deputy Commandant of Border
Security Force (BSF), Trideep Sangma says
that ULFA has given birth to a new tribal
Garo militant group to strengthen its base
in Garo Hills region of Meghalaya. Achik
Tiger Force (ATF), the new militant group
was formed a few months ago after the Liberation
Achik Elite Force (LAEF) was neutralised
with many of its cadres either arrested or
surrendering before the state police.
- December 16: HNLC calls a 24-hour bandh
during Union Home Minister P Chidambarams
scheduled visit to Meghalaya on December 19.
The HNLC has called the bandh from 6 pm of
December 18 to 6 pm of December 19 in the
entire Khasi-Jaintia Hills district in protest
against the Union Home Ministers visit. HNLC
spokesman Sainkupar Nongtraw has, in an e-mail,
accused New Delhi of illegal subjugation
of our land and disrespecting human rights.
Chidambaram would visit and address trainees
of the North Eastern Police Academy at Umsaw
during the passing-out parade.
- December 23: Suspected HNLC rebels gun
down a prominent coal exporter and shot at
his wife in their Pomshutia village residence
near the India-Bangladesh border. December
23: A corporal of the ULFA -- Jatin Shaw
alias Alput Thapa surrenders to BSF IG Prithvi
Raj.
2008
- January 20: Madan Koch, area commander of ULFA shot dead
by security force personnel at Katalbari near
Garobadha in the West Garo Hills district.
The deceased ILFA oversaw the shipment of
explosives and weapons from across Bangladesh passing through
Garo Hills enroute to the neighbouring State
of Assam.
- January 26: 24-hour strike called by the HNLC in the Khasi
and Jaintia Hills in protest against the celebration
of the Republic Day.
- February 6: Security forces arrest six suspected ULFA militants
at Dainadubi in the Mendipathar area of East
Garo Hills.
- February 16: Kalti Rava and Tejimala Rava, women bomb experts
of ULFA, and their sympathiser, Lovison Sangma,
are arrested by police personnel from Bangsi
Donggre village in the East Garo Hills district.
- February 21: Pradip Hazarika , a school teacher, is shot
dead by suspected ULFA militants at Kakopathar
Harumechai village in the Tinsukia district.
The same group also killed Bhoyen Moran, a
resident of the adjoining Bormechai village.
- March 9: ANLF, 'commander-in-chief' Nobin Marak alias Scorpion,
and another cadre of the outfit are assassinated
by an angry mob for trying to extort money
at Cheran village in the East Garo Hills district.
- March 10: Congress Legislature Party leader D.D. Lapang
takes oath as the Meghalaya Chief Minister.
- March 12: LAEF militants demanded INR ten million as ransom
for releasing the abducted manager of a grocery
shop, Devendar Prajati. He was abducted from
his residence in Rongjeng in the East Garo
Hills District on March 10.
- March 27: Meghalaya police bust a joint camp run by Hynniewtrep
National Liberation Council (HNLC) and National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in Jaintia
Hills. Six HNLC militants were arrested in
the area and two others killed in an encounter
at the joint camp.
- March 27: The police arrest the three LAEF (Liberation of
Achik Elite Force) militants during their
extortion bid at Rongkhukre in coal-rich West
Khasi Hills district.
- March 28: Two Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
militants are gunned down and six others arrested.
Three Liberation of A’chik Elite Force
(LAEF) members are nabbed in a separate incident.
- April 1: One LAEF cadre, identified as Salman Sangma, is
arrested by the Meghalaya Police from Shahlang
in the West Khasi Hills district.
- April 3: Meghalaya Police arrested six persons, including
rangbah shnongs (members of the traditional
local-self government institutions) and businessmen,
from different parts of the Jaintia Hills
district for their suspected links with the
HNLC.
- April 23: Three persons, including two LAEF cadres, are
booked under the Meghalaya Preventive Detention
Act.
- May 4: Security forces arrest Walter R. Sangma, personal
bodyguard of the slain ‘chairman’
of the LAEF Peter Marak, at Sarangkol village
in the Bajengdoba area. He confessed to having
killed Peter in a hideout near Songsak in
December 2007 over an argument about the share
of looted money.
- May 7: Meghalaya Police neutralised a transit camp of the
ULFA after an encounter with cadres of the
outfit at Bilbot near Malangkona village in
the West Khasi Hills district along Meghalaya-Assam
border.
- May 21: Meghalaya Police arrests one hardcore HNLC cadre,
Banteiborlang Lyngdoh Nonglait, from the coal
belt areas at Nongjri near Borsora in the
West Khasi Hills district.
- May 26: Troops of the Border Security Force’s 35th
battalion arrests one ULFA militant, Parameshwar
Chandra Kotch, a Bangladeshi national, near
the Chandabui outpost in the West Garo Hills
district.
- June 6: Border Security Force (BSF) personnel release 4
HNLC cadres in Tripura for "lack of evidence"
who were arrested while entering Indian territory
from Bangladesh without passport
on May 16.
- June 12: Four surrendered HNLC cadres reveal that Phershal
Khongwang, Dawki unit president of the Khasi
Students' Union (KSU), was abducted and later
killed by HNLC cadre, Hep Khoit, along with
two of his accomplices, Bol Khonglah and Jop
Lamin, in Bangladesh
in 2007.
- June 29: Police arrest two HNLC militants, who infiltrate
from their hideouts in Bangladesh, from Mawkyrwat
village in the West Khasi Hills district.
Both the militants were sent to India by their outfit
to extort money from coal exporters and other
businessmen in the district.
- June 30: Meghalaya Police and Army arrest 2 LAEF cadres,
Anju Sangma and Christian A. Marak, during
a joint search operation along Assam-Meghalaya
border.
- July 1: The dead body of Nicheng Sangma, self-styled ‘commander-in-chief’
of the LAEF, is recvered by Meghalaya Police
near a camp of the outfit at Parasin in the
East Garo Hills district. Police also recover
three AK-47 assault rifles from the incident
site. Earlier, police arrested two suspected
LAEF cadres, Anju Sangma and Christian Sangma,
from Pengkasot village. They revealed that
Nicheng was killed by the LAEF cadres over
the leadership issue.
- July 11: One LAEF militant, Sengba W. Momin, is arrested
by Meghalaya Police from Tura in the West
Garo Hills district. Momin confessed for his
involvement in the abduction of a trader,
Bendra Prajaparti, from Rongjeng in the East
Garo Hills district on March 10. He is also
accused of hurling a grenade at Wagesi Weigh Bridge
on May 26 and killing a person at Nonchram
on the same day.
- July 17: One NDFB cadre belonging to the Khasi group, identified
as Jklis Mawphniang, surrenders before the
Army and Meghalaya Police in Shillong. Hailing
from the Ri-Bhoi district in Meghalaya, he
was operating as an ‘area commander’
of the outfit at Kokrajhar in Assam. He deposited two
revolvers during the time of his surrender.
- July 19: Unidentified militants abduct a trader, Vinod Kumar
Khemka, while returning from West Khasi Hills,
from Upper Shillong. The militants initially asked
for INR 7000000 for Khamka’s release,
and later reduced the ransom amount to INR
2000000.
- July 22: Suspected militants release the abducted trader,
Vinod Kumar Khemka, at Lai Mer in Upper
Shillong.
- July 23: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) observe black
flag day protesting the abduction of its circle
president Fairshall Kongwang, who disappeared
from Shyiap, a picnic spot near the Indo-Bangladesh
border on December 16, 2007.
- July 29: Three persons, involved in cross-border arms smuggling,
are arrested by Meghalaya Police in the West
Garo Hills district. One self-loading rifle
and counterfeit currency notes worth INR 44,000
are recovered from their possession.
- August 2: One senior ULFA leader is arrested from Tura Super
Market.
- August 4: The senior ULFA cadre Dharmen Hajong, nabbed from
Tura market, committed suicide inside the
police lock up.
- August 12: The HNLC calls for a general strike from August
14 in Meghalaya in protest agonist the Independence
Day celebrations on August 15.
- August 17: Two HNLC cadres, including one identified as
Command Lytan alias Commando, are arrested
by police from Shillong Club for attempting
to extort money from some traders. They have
demanded money from INR 300000 to INR 500000
from the traders of Jaintia Hills.
- September 4: Four DHD (Nunisa faction) and one NDFB are
arrested from different parts of Meghalaya.
- September 13: One LAEF and one Meghalaya People’s
Liberation Front cadre arrested by Meghalaya
Police in two separate operations at Bajengdoba
and Dudhnoi.
- September 28: ‘Deputy commander-in-chief' of the newly
formed militant outfit Achik National Social
Defend (ANSD), identified as Arbinus Marak,
along with a Bangladeshi national, is arrested
by police.
- September 29: One school boy, abducted by PLF-M militants
from his residence in Kharkutta 15 days ago,
is released by the militants in Dolonggiri
area of West Garo Hills district.
- September 30: Two NDFB militants, G. Rapid and B Phukan,
are handed over by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)
to Meghalaya Police at Dalu in the East Garo
Hills district.
- October 3: One cadre of the Bangladesh based Islami
Chhatra Shibir (ICS), identified as Mohammed
Habibur Rohman, is arrested, after he infiltrates
into Bholaganj village near Shella in the
East Khasi Hills district from Sunamganj district
of Bangladesh.
- October 6: One HLNC cadre, Bantei Sohtun alias Pyrkhat,
surrenders before the Border Security Force
(BSF) Inspector General P.K. Mishra in Shillong.
- October 11: A suspected HuJI militant is arrested by Meghalaya
Police from Bholaganj near Shella in the East
Khasi Hills district.
- October 12: Self-styled ‘commander-in-chief’
of the PLF-M, identified as Pollendro Marak,
is shot dead by the East Garo Hills district
police.
- October 15: A HNLC cadre, Kyntiew Kupar War, surrenders
before Meghalaya Police at Dawki. He was involved
in a number of extortion ceases in the coal
belt region at Lyngngam in the West Khasi
Hills district.
- November 3: ‘Second lieutenant’ of the HNLC,
identified as Shandor Phanbuh alias Antony, is arrested by Meghalaya
Police from Jingkieng Mawlai. Shandor is also
the ‘camp commander’ of the outfit
in Chittagong Hill tracts of Bangladesh.
- November 10: LAEF cadre Sail R. Marak is arrested by Meghalaya
Police from Nangalbibra in the South Garo
Hills district.
- November 12: One suspected HuJI cadre, Salim Ahmed is captured
by members of Khliehriat unit of the Khasi
Students Union from Rymbai road at Lad Rymbai
in the Jaintia Hills district. Salim is later
handed over to police.
- November 12: The ban on HNLC is extended by two years by
the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). The
ban is also extended on ULFA and NDFB for
their involvement in October 30 serial bomb
blasts. The existing ban on the HNLC expires
on November 15.
- November 14: The Jaintia Hills District Police recover 50
gelatin sticks and 35 detonators during a
search operation in the residence of a person,
Mohammed Sukur Ali alias Sukur Ahmed, at Ladrymbai
under Jowai police station. Sukur was arrested
from the incident site.
- November 18: Nine LAEF (Liberation A’chik Elite Force)
ultras nabbed by Meghalaya police from Pillangkata
in Meghalaya, bordering Assam. One of the arrested
militants is identified as “area commander”
of East Zone, Sengrak Momin, who is the third
in the hierarchy of the outfit.
- December 1: Three members of banned Hynniewtrep National
Liberation Council are arrested in raids near
Borsora in West Khasi Hills district in Meghalaya.
- December 1: An activist of the Liberation Achik Elite Force
(LAEF) is arrested near Williamnagar in East
Garo Hills district.
- December 3: 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. "The ANVC and NSCN (IM) equally
share the extorted amount," said police
sources.
- December 3: One senior HNLC cadre, Marshal Roy Kharkongor
alias Bah Arol, surrenders before Umkiang
police at Jowai in the Jaintia Hills District.
- December 5: Police foil an extortion drive of the HNLC in
the Borsora –Nongjri-Nonghyllam coal
belts — following interception of calls
from Bangladesh.
- December 7: In an encounter between police and militants,
a Special Operations Team constable, R.D.
Sangma, and the 'commander-in-chief' of the
LAEF, Kimrey K. Sangma, are killed at Damit
village near Shahlang in the West Khasi Hills
District.
2007
- April 12: Three surrendered HNLC cadres, Khainborlang Kharwaniang,
Mayborn Rapthap and Victor Rumnong, are arrested
from different parts of Shillong in connection
with the abduction of six persons on February
22.
- July 24: HNLC chairman
Julius K. Dorphangalong and four of his bodyguards
surrender before security forces in state
capital Shillong. However, no weapons are
deposited by the HNLC insurgents.
- August 17: ANVC organizing
secretary Bernard Marak is arrested by the
police on charges of extortion. The arrest
takes place at Tura in West Garo Hills district.
- August 25: An Achik National Liberation Front militant,
Rating, is arrested from the Byrnihat area
of Ri-Bhoi district.
- August 25: A self-styled ‘area commander’ of
the ANVC, identified as Sohan D. Shira, surrenders
in an unspecified place in Meghalaya.
- October 30: Five HNLC
insurgents are shot dead by police personnel
during an encounter at Cleave Colony in the
East Khasi Hills district. Police sources
later said the insurgents planned to kill
the outfit’s surrendered chairman Julius
Dorphang.
- November 7: A Deputy Superintendent of Police Raymond Diengdoh
and a HNLC
insurgent identified as Jokey are killed in
an encounter at a remote village in Rio-Bhoi
district of Meghalaya.
- November 9: A top-ranking ULFA militant, identified as 'sergeant
major' of the outfit’s '109 battalion'
Ratul Rabha, is arrested from Oidoba village
near the Meghalaya-Assam border in Meghalaya's
West Garo Hills district.
- November 22: 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.
- December 30: Meghalaya Police states that Phersial Kongwang,
the Khasi Students Union’s (KSU) Dawki Circle
president, was abducted and later taken to
Bangladesh by an HNLC
militants HNLC militant.
- December 31: Police sources claim that HNLC is behind the abduction of
Khasi Students Union leader Fairshal Khongwang.
However, the outfit denies any involvement
in the abduction.
2006
- March 24: The ANVC calls for the formation of a separate
state known as ' Garoland
State'
for the Garos in Meghalaya.
- April 26: Suspected UANF cadres abduct two senior customs
officials, Superintendent D. Bora and Inspector
Mrinal Sharma, at Baburambeel border area
in the West Garo Hills district.
- April 27: Officials of the Gasuapara Customs Land Station
receive an extortion note demanding Rupees
1.5 crores from suspected UANF militants across
the India-Bangladesh border for releasing
two abducted officials.
- May 16: The South Garo Hills district police rescue a woman
abducted by the ANLF militants from Rangran
in the West Khasi Hills district on May 14
and in the ensuing encounter kill a cadre
of the outfit.
- May 22: 12 UANF cadres surrender before the Deputy Inspector
General of Police ( Western Range),
F. D. Sangma, at Tura, headquarters of the
West Garo Hills district.
- June 22: Meghalaya Government confirms the death of the
United Achik National Front’s ‘chief’,
Nimush Marak, in the June 12 encounter at
Rangamati hideout in Bangladesh bordering Gasuapara village of South Garo Hills district.
- December 29: Two UANF militants, ‘general secretary’
Bromit A. Sangma and Treson M Sangma, surrenders
before the West Garo Hills Police at Tura.
2005
- January 24: An armed group of HNLC insurgents loot Rs. 93 lakhs
from the Meghalaya Co-operative Apex Bank
branch at Khliehriat in Jaintia Hills district.
- January 30: Three cadres belonging to the United Achik National
Front (UANF), including its 'commander-in-chief',
Jeffry T Sangma, are killed during an encounter
with the police at Lukhipara in the West Garo
Hills district.
- February 20: ANVC insurgents
set free Borsora Land Custom Station Superintendent
L.H. Faihrem at Tila Basti in East Khasi Hills
district. Abducted on October 9 2003, he remained
in captivity for more than four months.
- March 25: Man Bahadur Pradhan, manager of a coal export
firm of Sutnga in the Jaintia Hills district,
is abducted by suspected HNLC militants.
- March 25: HNLC insurgents
abduct Man Bahadur Pradhan, manager of a coal
export firm at Sutnga in Jaintia Hills district.
- July 2: An Indian Forest Service (IFS) official, D Sathyen,
is released unharmed by ANVC
insurgents after a fortnight in captivity,
in South Garo Hills district. Abducted on
June 18, ANVC
had placed a ransom demand of Rs. fifteen
lakhs for the official’s release.
- July 25: The finance secretary of HNLC, Yit Sun, and five other insurgents
surrender before the police in Shillong.
- September 26: HNLC’s publicity secretary Mihsalan
Kynjing alias Mangkara Dkhar surrenders before
the police
- November 6: Two ANVC militants, M. Marak and N. Momin, who had escaped from the Chokpot
cease-fire camp, are killed by the troops
near Thapha in the East Garo Hills district.
- December 23: The vice-chairman of HNLC, Teilang Thangkhiew, is arrested
by the police from a hideout at Pohkseh in
capital Shillong.
2004
- January 14: Fourteen Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
(HNLC) cadres surrender before the Meghalaya
Chief Minister D.D. Lapang in Shillong.
- February 13: Four ANVC militants are killed in an encounter
near Phulbari in the West Garo Hills district.
- March 16: 28 HNLC militants, including two women cadres,
lay down arms before Meghalaya Chief Minister
D D Lapang at the Meghalaya Police Training
Center
at Mawiong in the East Khasi Hills district.
- June 18: Suspected ANVC militants abduct Forest Officer,
D. Satyan, from his house at Baghmara in the
South Garo Hills district.
- June 23: The ANVC denies any links to the abduction of Satyan,
District Forest Officer of Balpakram National
Park.
- July 2: The abducted Indian Forest Service official, D Satyan,
is released unharmed in the South Garo Hills
district after about a fortnight amidst claims
by the State Government that no ransom had
been paid to the abductors.
- August 3: 28 HNLC militants surrender before Chief Minister
D D Lapang in Shillong.
- October 4: Suspected NDFB and HULA militants abduct two
traders from Myllim village near Garobadha
in West Garo Hills district.
- October 25: A HULA militant is killed in an encounter at
Monabari in West Garo Hills district.
- December 1: National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
militants kill five villagers, including three
members of a family, and injure another at
Lutubari under Tura police station limits
in the West Garo Hills district.
2003
- February 26: Deben Singh Rana, a Subsidiary Intelligence
Bureau Assistant Director and three other
persons abducted by ANVC insurgents are rescued by
the police from Tura in West Garo Hills district.
- February 28: ANVC and
NDFB insurgents abduct six coal exporters
and a customs official from customs station
at Ghasuapara in South Garo Hills district.
- 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 militants had abducted the six
and a customs official from Gasupara in the
South Garo Hills district on February 28.
- April 29: Three ANVC insurgents, including an ‘area
commander’, surrender before the police
at Sonapahar village in the West Khasi Hills
district.
- May 14: The assistant finance secretary of HNLC, Heston Bohphang, is arrested
from his residence at Umpling in capital Shillong.
- June 7: Two HNLC insurgents,
including the general secretary of HNLC’s
finance wing, are arrested by Meghalaya police
from Nongrim Hills locality of capital Shillong.
- June 14: Paul Lyngdoh, a senior finance wing member of HNLC, is arrested by Meghalaya
police from a hideout near Nongthymmai in
Shillong.
- June 27: Meghalaya police place under arrest a former state
minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party
(NCP) leader, Adolf Lu Hitler Marak, in state
capital Shillong for his alleged links with
ANVC.
- August 20: The political secretary of HNLC, Mardor Bamon, is arrested
by police from Mawlai in East Khasi Hills
district.
- September 10: ANVC
insurgents release the manager of Bajengdoba
branch of SBI after nine days in captivity.
Bajengdoba is located in East Garo Hills district.
- September 27: The western wing commander-in-chief of HNLC, Delphinus Myrthong, is killed
in an encounter with security forces near
Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills district.
- September 27: Eight ANVC militants are killed in two separate
encounters in the West Garo Hills district.
- October 15: The publicity wing secretary of HNLC, Edward Charles Synder, is
arrested by police from a cyber café in capital
Shillong.
2002
- March 1: Two persons, a prominent businessman and a manager
of a construction company, are abducted by
ANVC insurgents from Chibinang
in West Garo Hills district.
- March 6: HNLC insurgents
attack the office of the Superintendent of
Police of East Khasi Hills district. However,
no casualty is reported.
- March 14: Four police personnel and as many civilians lose
their lives in an attack by ANVC
insurgents in West Garo Hills district.
- June 30: Insurgents belonging to ANVC kill Meghalaya Forest Minister
Monindra Rava's son, Devajyoti Rava, and four
others at a place between Belguri and Abhiram
Para near Tikrikilla in Meghalaya.
- August 13: Unidentified militants ambush a truck and massacre
at least 15 persons and injured 25 others
at Raksamgiri in the West Garo Hills district.
- September 9: A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP ) and
five other police personnel lose their lives
in an ambush laid by ANVC insurgents at Chocpot in Garo
Hills.
- October 5: Meghalaya Chief Minister F A Khonglam discloses
that three Ministers from the Garo Hills region
have close links with the banned ANVC.
The Ministers belong to the Congress and Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP).
- December 19: ANVC insurgents
abduct a doctor, P. Bezbaruah, from Williamnagar
in East Garo Hills district. A ransom demand
of two million is placed for his release.
2001
- January 5: HNLC insurgents
attack a businss establishment in Shillong,
killing five civilians and injuring four others.
- January 30: 13 ANVC ‘lance corporals’ surrender
at Tura and are given monetary incentives
as part of the Government’s rehabilitation
package for surrendered militants.
- March 1: HNLC insurgents
abduct a Seng Khasi leader Rijoy Khongshah.
He is killed three days later on March 4.
- August 8: Peoples’ Liberation Front-Meghalaya (PLF-M),
a militant outfit headed by Vincent Sangma,
is renamed as Achik National Council (ANC).
- August 10: In a joint ambush by ANVC and NDFB insurgents , five police
personnel are killed near Songsak in East
Garo Hills District.
- October 23: HNLC chairman
Julius K. Dorphang informs that the outfit
has killed Ching Thangkhiew, the commander-in-chief
of an insurgent outfit called North East Red
Army (NERA), for allegedly assisting security
force personnel.
- November 20: Insurgents belonging to ANVC abduct a Sub-Divisional Officer
(SDO) of Meghalaya Government from Waribok
near Rongrang in West Garo Hills district.
1998
- October: Five security force personnel are killed and over
Rs. 100,000 is looted by ANVC
insurgents in an attack in East
Garo hills district.
|
)
