Timeline of insurgency in Northeast India

This is a following is a list of events during the Northeast India Insurgency, an ongoing armed conflict between the separatist rebels and the Indian government. ^[1]

2010s

2010

• 3 January - A NNC cadre was killed by the rival NSCN-IM militants during a clash. ^[2]
• 6 August - Two BSF personnel were killed in an IED blast triggered by the NLFT militants in Tripura. ^[3]
• 9 November - Two different NDFB led attack killed 23 villages in total. ^[4]
• 10 December - Four militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) were killed during an encounter with Police in Meghalaya. ^[5]

2011

• 3 February - SFs killed a People's Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA) militant during in Manipur. ^[6]
• 10 February - A security guard was killed and three others including a civilian was injured during an unidentified attack by militants. ^[6]
• 8 March - Unidentified militants shot dead at an Police officer in Assam. ^[7]
• 15 April - An ambush by NSCN-IM militants kills 8 police officers in Manipur. ^[8]
• 9 August - 4 GNLA militants were killed by Police during an encounter in Meghalaya. ^[9]
• 31 October - 4 police men and 1 civilian was killed after an attack by GNLA militants in Meghalaya. ^[9]

2014

See also: May 2014 Assam violence and December 2014 Assam violence

• 17 January - Six persons were killed after suspected NDFB militants attack in Assam. ^[10]
• 21 February - SFs killed three suspected GNLA militants in Assam. ^[10]
• 30 April - 3 suspected NDFB militants were killed during an encounter with Police in Assam. ^[10]
• 1 May - May 2014 Assam violence: From the night of 1 May 2014 until the morning of 3 May 2014, a series of attacks occurred against Bengali Muslims in Assam by groups of insurgents. On 1 May, insurgents, arriving on bicycles, raided the Baksa district village of Narsingbari, opening fire on a house, killing three women and injuring two others. ^[11] The police suspected the NDFB for the attack, however the NDFB denied their involvement. ^[12]
• 2 May - On 2 May, the attacks continued as group of insurgents opened fire at three houses in the village of Balapara in the district of Kokrajhar, killing seven people. On the evening of the same day, another insurgent group killed 12 people. ^{[13] [14]}
• 3 May - On 3 May, four suspected insurgents attacked police in the forest near Tezpur. Police fired in retaliation, killing two while the other two escaped. The death toll of the violence rose to 33 including 3 insurgents. ^[15]
• 1 August - 3 ULFA militants died after a IED blast near police station in Assam. ^[10]
• 20 August - 5 NDFB militants were killed during an encounter with SFs in Assam. ^[10]
• 8 October - SFs launched an operation at Kokrajhar District in Assam. The operation resulted in 4 NDFB militants dead and capture of various ammunation. ^[10]
• 5 November - 3 NSCN militants were killed in an encounter with SFs in Assam. ^[10]
• 23 December - December 2014 Assam violence: More than 70 people were killed and several injured after an attack by National Democratic Front of Boroland was conduct against Adivasi People. ^{[16] [17] [18]} The strike was in response to an offensive by India against the guerrillas which killed 2 NDFB cadres. ^[19] Adivasi people later protested against this massacre. 3 Adivasi were also killed when police fired rounds to disperse the crowd after the protest march turned violent. Adivasi people in response marched killed 3 Bodo people in village. ^[20] The death toll rose to 85. ^[17]
• 26 December - On 26 December 2014, the Indian Government declared that they had launched "Operation All Out" to eliminate the NDFB militants. About 5,000 personnel from the paramilitary CRPF and 4,620 from the Indian Army had already been deployed and ordered to eliminate the remaining militants. ^[21]

2015

• 28 May - AFSPA was abolished in the state of Tripura, owing to the relatively peaceful situation there. ^[22]
• 3 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". ^[23]

2017

• 12 December –Two people (A father and son) were shot dead by ULFA militants. ^[24] On Same day, 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. ^[25]
• 14 December – A militant were killed in an encounter between militants of NDFB and security forces. ^[26]

2018

• 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. ^{[27] [28]}
• 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. ^[29]
• 1 April - AFSPA was abolished in Meghalaya. ^[30]
• 4 May – A police officer and a terrorist died in a shooting and grenade attack in Tinsukia district in the Indian state of Assam. ^[31]
• 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. ^[32]
• 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. ^[33]
• 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. ^[34]

2020s

2023

• 3 May – 2023 Manipur violence: Ethnic violence erupts in the state of Manipur between the Kuki and the Meitei people.

2025

On 13 July, Nayan Asom, a top ULFA commander was reportedly killed by a 100 Indian drone strikes inside Myanmar. ^[35]

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