Timeline of the Insurgency in Northeast India

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This is a timeline of the Insurgency in Northeast India, an ongoing armed conflict between the separatist rebels and the Indian government.

Timeline of the conflict[edit]

2010s[edit]

2010[edit]

2011[edit]

2012[edit]

2013[edit]

2014[edit]

November 2014

  • At least 50 people were killed and 80 injured after an attack by tribal guerrillas. The strike was in response to an offensive by India against the guerrillas.[1]

2015[edit]

  • AFSPA was abolished in the state of Tripura, owing to the relatively peaceful situation there
  • August-The NSCN(IM) and NSCN(K) insurgent groups of Nagaland signed a peace accord with the Indian government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the agreement "historic".[2]

2016[edit]

2017[edit]

  • 12 December –
    • Two people (A father and son) were shot dead by ULFA militants.[3]
    • An encounter between the security forces and members of the Garo National Liberation Army were reported near the village of Nangalbibra, in South Garo Hills district. No casualties were reported in both sides, and the officers claim the presence of the rebels was for the establishment as a centre to extort money from coal quarries and trucks.[4]
  • 14 December – A militant were killed in an encounter between militants of NDFB and security forces.[5]

2018[edit]

  • AFSPA was abolished in Meghalaya.
  • 18 February – Four persons, including the NCP candidate Jonathone Nengminza Sangma, were killed and three others injured in an improvised explosive device blast in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district, India.[6][7]
  • 5 March – A rifleman of 13 Sikh Light Infantry was killed in an encounter with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland at Khoupum area in Manipur's Noney district.[8]
  • 4 May – A police officer and a terrorist died in a shooting and grenade attack in Tinsukia district in the Indian state of Assam.[9]
  • 9 May – Two members of the Border Security Force were killed and three civilians injured in a bomb explosion outside a BSF camp in the Imphal East district of Manipur.[10]
  • 5 June – The Assam Rifles outpost at Lampong Sheanghah village in the Mon district of the Indian state of Nagaland was attacked by militants, leaving three security personnel injured.[11]
  • 17 June – Four Assam Rifles personnel were killed in an ambush by militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland in Nagaland's Mon district, near the Indian-Myanmar border. Six other soldiers were injured in the incident, two of them seriously.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rebels kill dozens in India's Assam state". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  2. ^ "India in peace deal with Naga rebels". 3 August 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Assam: Father-son duo gunned down by ULFA in Tinsukia village". The Indian Express. 12 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  4. ^ "GNLA, police exchange fire in South Garo Hills". The Shillong Times. 12 December 2017. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Hardcore NDFB(S) militant killed in encounter in Assam". The Indian Express. 14 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  6. ^ "NCP candidate Jonathone Nengminza Sangma among four killed in poll-bound Meghalaya". The New Indian Express. 19 February 2018. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  7. ^ "NCP Candidate, Surrendered Militant Leader Killed in IED Blast in Meghalaya". The Wire. 19 February 2018. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Army Jawan Killed in Encounter With NSCN(IM) in Manipur". The Quint. 5 March 2018. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Cop dies in encounter". The Telegraph. 5 May 2018. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  10. ^ "2 BSF jawans killed, 3 civilians injured in IED blast in Manipur". The Tribune. 9 May 2018. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  11. ^ "JUST IN: Suspected NSCN (K) cadres attack AR outpost in Mon district; three army jawans injured". The Northeast Today. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  12. ^ "NSCN-K ambush claims 4 Assam Rifles jawans". The Times of India. 18 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
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