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2010
- March 16: Government interlocutor PC Halder
holds the first round of talks with the banned
Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) and
the political demands of the group were discussed.
ANVC spokesman Torik J Marak said that the
discussion was encouraging and the group has
come to a “certain level of understanding”
with the Centre’s representatives. The
demands include an autonomous council for
Garo Hills area on the lines of Assam Bodoland
Autonomous Council.
- March 23: The Centre extends the ceasefire
with the banned Achik National Volunteer Council
(ANVC) of Meghalaya by three months, from
April 1, 2010.
- March 24: The Central Government says that
it is looking at the demand for an autonomous
Garo Council sympathetically and hoping to
finalize modalities for such a council in
the next three months.
- June 30: Tripartite Suspension of Operations
(SoO) agreement with the Achik National Volunteers’
Council (ANVC), Meghalaya is extended by three
months from July 1. Ceasefire between ANVC
and Government of India are on since July
23, 2004 and is currently valid till June
30.
- August 7: The outlawed Hynniewtrep National
Liberation Council (HNLC) appeals to the people
to join their boycott of the Independence
Day celebrations. As a mark of protest to
the celebration of Independence Day in Hynniewtrep
land, the HNLC has called for a 36-hour shutdown
from 6 p.m. Aug 14 to 6 a.m. Aug 16. The Khasi
rebel group also called for a night curfew
Aug 12 and 13 from 10 pm to 5 am on both the
days.
2009
- January 23: The HNLC calls for a boycott of the Republic
Day (January 26) celebrations in the Khasi
and Jaintia Hills areas.
- May 1: According to official sources, the Government
has laid down guidelines that only in exceptional
and deserving cases militants who surrender
without arms and ammunition may be considered
for rehabilitation under the government package.
However, most of the recent surenderees (without
arms and ammunition), the official maintained,
were far from “exceptional and deserving”
cases, but provided with the rehabilitation
package.
2008
- January 9: Meeting between senior Meghalaya Government officials
and top ANVC
leaders at the Circuit House in Tura. Government
terms the talks outcome as positive.
- February 4: According to a report in TheTelegraph, the HNLC renewed
its alliance with the NSCN-IM.
- March 14: The surrendered HNLC militants decided to ask
the Meghalaya Government for general amnesty.
- May 28: The LAEF's new 'commander-in-chief' Daria Sangma
reconfirmed Meghalaya Police’s claim
that the LAEF has forged ties with the Assam-based
Black Widow (BW) outfit. According to him,
it was in the interest of consolidating the
LAEF to pursue its goal of a ‘separate
Garo state’.
- 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.
- August 16: The banned HNLC expresses willingness to come
to the negotiating table with the Centre but
with a “mutual respect for each others’
sentiments”.
- September 12: Meghalaya Police (SP of Shillong) states Northeast
militant groups, including DHD, BW, NDFB,
and ULFA, are using Shillong as a transit
point for arms deal.
- October 24: HNLC 'publicity secretary' Sainkupar Nongtraw
rejects talks offer made by Meghalaya Director
General of Police B. K. Dey Sawian. The HNLC
says that it had sent a letter to the Union
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in 2003 offering
to hold talks, adding the outfit was yet to
get a reply from the Centre. The six points
of HNLC to be included in the cease-fire agreement
with the Centre include: lifting of the ban
on the outfit, talks in a "neutral"
country with safe passage to its cadres, supporters
and sympathizers and a transparent agenda
for talks.
2007
- May 23: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal extends
the ban on ANVC
for two more years. The order will remain
in force till May 15, 2009.
- 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.
2006
- May 28: ANVC asks the
Union Government to withdraw the ban imposed
on it for facilitating peace talks.
- July 11: The ceasefire agreement between the Union Government
and ANVC
is extended by one more year.
- September 11: The newly formed Garo outfit, Achik National
Liberation Front Army (ANLFA), allegedly accuses
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.
- November 9: The Union Government further extends the ban
imposed on ANVC.
2005
- January 17: The ceasefire agreement between the Union Government
and ANVC
is extended for a further period of six months.
- 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.
- March 25: HNLC insurgents
abduct Man Bahadur Pradhan, manager of a coal
export firm at Sutnga in Jaintia Hills district.
- July 18: The ceasefire agreement between the Union Government
and ANVC
is extended for a year with effect from July
23, 2005.
- July 25: The finance secretary of HNLC, Yit Sun, and five other insurgents
surrender before the police in Shillong.
- December 23: The vice-chairman of HNLC, Teilang Thangkhiew, is arrested
by the police from a hideout at Pohkseh in
capital Shillong.
2004
- July 23: ANVC signs
a tripartite agreement with the Union
and Meghalaya Governments for suspension of
hostilities with immediate effect. The signatories
to the agreement included A.K.Rastogi, Secretary
in MHA; P.J. Bazeley, Chief Secretary of Meghalaya;
and Wanding K Marak, the general secretary
of ANVC.
- July 28: A new militant group, United Achik National Front
(UANF), formed in the Garo Hills. Two UANF
cadres were killed by South Garo Hills Police.
- December 9: A Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) meeting is held
between the banned ANVC
and representatives of MHA and the Meghalaya
Government in New Delhi. It
is decided at the meeting that the cadres
of ANVC will stay in two designated
camps in Garo Hills region.
- December 22: Union Government extends the ban on ANVC.
2003
- January 3: The Union Home Ministry extends the ban imposed
on ANVC.
- April 23: There are unconfirmed reports that preliminary
discussions have taken place between the Union
Government and ANVC on an unspecified date in
Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
- 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.
- August 20: The political secretary of HNLC, Mardor Bamon, is arrested
by police from Mawlai in East Khasi 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.
- October 15: The publicity wing secretary of HNLC, Edward Charles Synder, is
arrested by police from a cyber café in capital
Shillong.
2002
- March 6: HNLC insurgents
attack the office of the Superintendent of
Police of East Khasi Hills district. However,
no casualty is reported.
- August 20: Cabinet decides not to implement POTA in the
State stating that existing laws are sufficient
to deal with the situation.
- December 9: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA ) establishes
contact with ANVC
and announces that peace talks with the insurgent
outfit are likely to be held in Delhi
in 2003.
2001
- January 5: HNLC insurgents
attack a businss establishment in Shillong,
killing five civilians and injuring four others.
- March 1: HNLC insurgents
abduct a Seng Khasi leader Rijoy Khongshah.
He is killed three days later on March 4.
- 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.
2000
- March 13: Meghalaya Chief Minister E. K. Mawlong signs an
agreement with his Assam
counterpart Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to co-operate
in counter-insurgency operations.
- November 16 : TheUnion Government imposes a ban on the ANVC with immediate effect under
the provisions of Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 .
- November 26: Meghalaya disapproves the Prevention of Terrorist
Activities (POTA) Bill, stating that existing
laws are adequate to deal with law-and-order
and terrorism in the State.
- December 10: Leaders of the church in Meghalaya offer to
act as mediators to bring insurgent groups
of the state to the negotiating table.
1995
- December: The Achik National Volunteer Council ( ANVC) is founded. The outfit’s
declared aim is to carve out a homeland for
Garos in Garo inhabited areas of Meghalaya
and Assam.
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