January 1: One active member of United
National Liberation Front (UNLF) is apprehended
by a team of Thoubal District Police commandos
from Kakching Khunou area. The apprehended
person had been identified as Khumukcham Amujao
from Lamkkhaiba, 23 years, son of Kh. Lukhoi
Singh of Kakching Uchan Makhong.
January 2: Troops of 8 Assam Rifles 0f
26 sector under HQ IGAR(South) launch operation
in the area of Khullen of Chandel district
and apprehend a UNLF militant. The apprehended
was identified as Mangham Puyam, 45, son of
Late Tomas, a residence of Sugnu Makha Leikai.
January 2:Troops of 31 Assam Rifles apprehend
a KCP (MC) ultra from a Maruti van Regd No.MN
01W 6588 at permanent vehicle check post,
Khudengthabi at around 4.30 pm on Jan 2, 2010.
The apprehendee was identified as No.2288
SS Pvt Bijen Singh alias Morama, 25, son of
Ibobi Singh, Ulom Lampak. The apprehended
was handed over to Imphal west police station.
January 3: A two and half year old boy
sustains splinter injury when the police bomb
squad of Manipur Police were disposing off
a hand grenade at a open place at Gari in
Imphal west.
January 4: Two suspected PULF cadres are
gunned down by a combined team of Thoubal
district police commandos and 34 Assam Rifles,
at Thoubal district.
January 4: Two militants of People’s
United Liberation Front (PULF) were killed
in an encounter with security personnel in
Thoubal district of Manipur today, police
said.
January 4: A combined team of Assam Rifles
and State police commandos gun down two suspected
militants in an encounter in Manipur’s
Thoubal district. The incident took place
at Heirok Karong Thong area under Thoubal
police station when a combined team of the
security forces which was on their way to
launch an operation, was challenged by unknown
armed persons.
January 4: One active member of KYKL is
apprehended by Thoubal District Police from
Sekmaijin Khunou area. The apprehended person
identified as Uritkhinbam Manglem Singh, 32,
son of Ibohal Singh of Sekmaijin Khunou joined
the outfit in 2005 through one self styled
2nd Lt.
January 4: A team of Imphal east district
police commandos arrested three cadres of
underground PULF including two women. The
militants were arrested around 2:30pm from
Sendra and one 9mm pistol with 3 live ammunitions,
10 blank letter head of PULF (Omar Qazi) and
four rubber stamp seals of PULF were recovered
from the possession of the arrested persons.
January 5: Troops of 17 Assam Rifles of
10 Sector under HQ IGAR(South) launch operation
in the Upper Leishan of Ukhrul district area
and apprehend an individual affiliated with
NSCN(IM).
January 5: Troops of 31 Assam Rifles of
26 Sector launch operation in general area
Ward No.5, Moreh (Pangal Basti) and apprehend
a PULF (Umar Farrooq) terrorist. The apprehended
was identified as No.7065 SS Sgt Abdul Salem,
25, son of Abdul Haque, Soura (Ward No.1,
Kakching).
January 6: One migrant laborour is gunned
down by armed miscreants at Singjamei Bheigabati
Leikai under Porompat police station in Imphal
east district.
January 7: Two persons suspected to be
militants are gunned down by a combined team
of Bishnupur CDO and 8 MLI troop at Trongloubi
Maning LeikaI under Moirang police station
in Bishnupur district. The incident occurred
around 11.30pm when the combined team were
conducing an operation at Gelnom village neighbouring
Tronglaobi village during which an encounter
ensued.
January 8: The government and Apunba Lup
sign a memorandum of understanding, MoU, to
end up the current impasse in the agitation
in the aftermath of the July 23 Khwairamband
firing. Apunba Lup decides to suspend their
agitation and informs that their class boycott
call is over and educational institution can
resume normal classes from January 11. The
MoU signed between the conflicting parties
said all persons under preventive detention
in connection with the protests that followed
the July 23 incident would be unconditionally.
Three members of the senior citizens forum,
Khaidem Mani, Prof. Sadananda and N.Binoy,
who were the peace brokers in the four month
long drama, were also part of the mediation.
January 9: A combined team of police commandos
and Assam Rifles jawans arrest two PREPAK
militants involved in killing migrant workers
and attacking former Chief Minister Radhabinod
Koijam’s residence.
January 11: A team of Imphal east district
police commandos arrest a self styled lieutenant
RPF/PLA, from J.N Hospital, Porompat area.
January 11: Troops of 21 Assam Rifles of
9 Sector, arrest a KYKL cadre in general area
of Chairel Khunjao of Thoubal district, during
an operation.
January 12: A combined force of Imphal
West District police commandos and personnel
of 26 and 39 Assam Rifles arrest two cadres
of underground RPF/PLA along with one sympathizers
(harbourer cum money collector of the outfit
during an operation at Mayang Langjing under
Lamshang police ststaion in Imphal West. January
13: Two suspected cadres of Zoumi Revolutionary
Army (ZRA) are killed during a reported fire-fight
between two armed groups that took place at
Churachandpur district. The incident occurred
at Singtam Khunou under Singhat police station
in Churachandpur district during which two
persons suspected to be cadres of (ZRA) were
killed.
January 14: A PREPAK cadre is held from
Keishamthong Bridge by a combined team of
Imphal west district police commandos and
26 Assam Rifles. He is identified as Khumallambam
Ibomcha Singh alias Joy, 39, s/o (L) Kh. Bijoy
Singh of Kongba Makha Leikai.
January 14: An NSCN (K) activist is arrested
by a combined team of Imphal west district
police commandos and 26 Assam Rifles from
Keishampat Junction. He is identified as Kasum
Sangshang alias Winson, 38, s/o K. Akan of
Phungreitang, Ukhurl district.
January 14: Three activists of the KCP (Noyon
faction) were arrested by a combined team
of Bishnupur police commandos and an MI- team
(Military Intelligence) during an operation
carried out at Bishnupur Bazaar.
January 15: Four suspected militants of
the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of Manipur
are arrested in Agartala after they sneaked
into the state from Bangladesh. The militants
illegally crossed over to western Tripura
from Bangladesh and attempted to leave for
Guwahati in Assam in a hired vehicle.
Jan 16: A combined team of Imphal East
police commandos and personnels of 28 Assam
Rifles gun down two suspected armed militants
at Wakha Lambi Yangbi Khunou under Porompat
police station in Imphal East district and
recovered one Ak-56 Rifle with a magazine
loaded with seven live rounds, and one 9mm
pistol loaded with one magazine with three
live rounds from the possessions of the deceased.
January 17: Troops of 12 Assam Rifles of
10 Sector under HQ IGAR (South) launch operation
in general area south of Khongkhan (Kamjong
sub-division) on Road Kamjon, Mulvai Lup.
Assam Rifles troops kill two UGs suspected
to be UNLF cadres in a firefight. One G-3
Rifle with magazine and 8 rounds, one 303
Rifle with magazine and 15 rounds and Japanes
make Radio Set. The bodies were brought to
RIMS for post mortem late in the evening,
PRO IGAR (South) has said in a release.
January 17: 31 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector
under HQ IGAR (South) apprehend a KCP (MC)
cadre at around in the area of Pangal Basti
of Chandel district. The apprehendee was identified
as Bobol alias Safiqur Rehman, 21, son of
Azjijur Rehman, residence of Sora.
January 17: At least two cadres of the
proscribed KYKL are arrested by a team Thoubal
district police commandos.
January 18: A combined team of Thoubal
police commando and 20 AR gunned down a militant
suspect at Waithou Achouba junction on NH-39
under Lilong police station.
January 18: An unidentified militant is
killed in an encounter with police commandos
at Waithou Ching area in Thoubal district
of Manipur.
January 19: One suspected underground activist
is killed in a reported encounter with a combined
team of police and Assam Rifles while four
alleged underground cadres belonging to different
groups are held in separate incidents.
January 20: A combined team of Imphal west
district police commandos and 28 Assam Rifles
arrest two KYKL activists from Ragailong Pandon
area. The arrested persons have been identified
as one Chingabam Chandramani Singh, 29, s/o
(L) Ch. Bokul Singh of Konjeng Awang Lamdong
Leikai and Mutum Shamu Singh, 30, s/o M. Samjai
Singh of Tumukhong Maphou Dam.
January 21: A powerful bomb, allegedly
planted by unknown militants, explodes at
the Loktak Development Authority (LDA) office
complex at Ningthoukhong, about 40 km from
Imphal at Bishenpur district.
January 23: A team of Thoubal district
police arrests a cadre of KYKL (MDF) during
frisking and checking at Thoubal district.
January 28: In a special operation conducted
by a team of Imphal East district police commandos
at Singjamei Bheigyapati Leikai, four women
activists of KCP (Tabungba Meitei) group are
arrested. The arrested women cadres were identified
as, Takhellambam Ongbi Premlata Devi, 33,
wife of T Shyamkesho of Khurai Sajor Leikai,
Hijam Ongbi Purnima Devi, 34, wife of H Jila
Singh of Pangei, Hijam Jila Singh, 29, son
of H Ishorchandra Singh of Pangei and Elangbam
Ningol Thangjam Ongbi Babita Devi, 32, wife
of T Samu Singh of Khurai Thangjam Leikai.
January 28: SP Imphal East states that
a team of CDO Imphal East arrest four activists
of underground KYKL (MDF) identified as Soiyam
Sanjit Singh, 25, son of S Chaoba Singh of
Thangjam Leikai, Laishram Dhanabir Singh,
50, son of late Ibotombi Singh of Khurai Kongpal
Laishram Leikai, Chandam Gouramohon Singh,
52, son of late Ch Amubi of Khurai Konsam
Leikai and Thingom Joychandra Singh, 33, son
of Th Sharat Singh of Khurai Chaithabi Leirak
from Khuari Chaithabi Leirak.
January 28: A team of Imphal East district
police commandos arrest one cadre of KCP (MC)
identified as Athokpam Tomba Singh alias Ibotomba,
42 , son of A Mohori of Leirongthel Pitra
from Andro Parking.
January 28: A team of Imphal of Imphal
East district police commandos arrest one
cadre of KCP (Tabungba Meitei) group identified
as Kshetrimayum Romen alias Nganthoi, 28 son
of Ksh Dhananjoy of Meitei Langol from Chingabam
Leirak Machin.
January 29: A team of Imphal East district
police commandos arrest one cadre of UPPK
identified as Elam Ibomcha alias Brajalal
Meitei, 26, son of E Tombi Metei of Takhel
Khunou Mamang Leikai from Takhel Khunou Mamang
hill and recovered on 9 mm pistol with four
live rounds from his possession.
January 29: The district police commandos
of Thoubal apprehend one member of the underground
KCP during frisking and checking near Thoubal
Bridge. The arrested KCP cadre was identified
as Laishram Rajiv Singh alias Ricky 22 son
of L Ranabir Singh of Thoubal Khunou Awang
Leikai.
January 29: A team of Thoubal district
police commandos arrest a member of newly
formed armed organisation of Naga UNPC. According
to the official statement of SP Thoubal district,
the incident occurred when personnel of Thoubal
police commandos were conducting frisking
and checking of a Tata Sumo vehicle plying
Imphal to Moreh in Thoubal district. During
the checking one woman identified as Khamwang
26 wife of Kanthang Kabui of Tamenglong bazar,
ward No-2 was found possessing a sum of Rs.
1 Lakh cash belonging to the UNPC was held.
January 31: Two persons suspected to be
PLA cadres are gunned down by a team of Thoubal
district police commandos in Ukhongshang and
Lanmeithel villages in Thoubal district.
February 1: SSP Imphal west district L.
Kailun states that a combined team of Imphal
west district police commandos and 26 AR arrest
altogether three cadres of the proscribed
PREPAK and three KCP (MC) activists.
February 2: Manipur police gun down two
militants in an encounter near Iribung in
Imphal East district.
February 2: A team of the Thoubal police
commandos arrest three suspected KCP activists
from Thoubal Athokpam area.
February 3: One suspected cadre of the
underground PULF is gunned down by troops
of the 28 Assam Rifles at Kiyamgei Muslim
Takok Palli under Irilbung police station
during an encounter.
March 14: Imphal police arrest Ningthoujam
Tomba alias Koireng (57), the Chief of Army
of the proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup
(KYKL) at Khaprail bazar at Siliguri in Darjeeling
district of West Bengal at about 6.30 pm.
Ningthoujam Tomba is the son of N Bira of
Nambol Kongkham Mayai Leikai, Bishnupur district.
The police also arrest a woman called Saraswati
Ray who was staying with him along with two
other women at Khaprail bazar.
March 15: Villagers of Lilong Leihaokhong
Village in Thoubal district apprehend a militant
cadre of the proscribed Kangleipak Communist
Party (KCP), Tamyanpokpa group from his residence,
who was linked in the abduction of Md Minajuddin
also known as Thoiba.
March 15: One KYKL insurgent is killed in
an encounter with a combined force of Assam
Rifles personnel and police commandos in Imphal
East district at Phunan Maring area.
March 18: Two suspected PLA cadres are
shot dead and another militant is arrested
by security forces at Token Khul, Chandel
district.
March 18: One KCP(MC) cadre is arres by
the Assam Rifles at Koirengei bazaar, Imphal
West.
March 20: Two unidentified militants are
shot dead and one KCP cadre is apprehended
by Assam Rifles at Kaikhu, Imphal West.
March 21: Four militants of United Tribal
Liberation Army (UTLA), a newly formed militant
group, are killed inside the Longpi Government
High School in Tamenglong district. While
the Army claims over the killing, UTLA alleges
that the killing is done by the NSCN (K) Zeliangrong
Region.
March 21: Troops of Assam Rifles apprehend
four United Liberation Army (ULA) cadres including
the outfit’s “commander-in-chief”
and “finance secretary”.
March 22: Assam Rifles apprehends two KCP
cadres at Tengnoupal in Chandel district.
Another KCP cadre is nabbed by the police
at Singjamei in Imphal West.
March 22: One PLA care is nabbed from Imphal
hospital.
March 22: One KYKL is apprehended from Patsoi
in Imphal West by the police.
March 22: Three KYKL cadres, including two
women are arrested by Assam Rifles in Chandel
district.
March 24: Four United Tribal Liberation
Army (UTLA) militants are killed in a gun
fight with security forces in Tamenglong district.
March 27: One PREPAK militant surrenders
before a Commander of 26 sector of Assam Rifles
Brig S K Bhanot in Imphal.
March 31: One UNLF cadre is nabbed along
India-Myanmar border by troops of 29 Assam
Rifles in Sita Road area in Imphal.
March 31: According to official sources,
Manipur government will soon hold peace talks
with the Lallumba faction of KCP-MC.
April 25: One PLA cadre is arrested by the
police at Lamdeng Khunou area in Imphal West
district.
April 27: A Kuki National Front President
(KNF-P) militant is killed in a factional
fight with Kuki National Army (KNA) in the
interior Seichang village in Senapati district
of Manipur. While the KNF-P wants to form
a “Kuki state” under the Constitution
by curving out all the Kuki –inhabited
areas of Manipur, KNA wants all the Kuki inhabited
areas of Manipur and Myanmar to from “Kukiland”.
April 30: Manipur Cabinet decides not to
allow National Socialist Council of Nagalim-IM
general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah’s
proposed visit to the State. The Cabinet felt
that the proposed visit may disturb peace
and tranquility of the State. The Cabinet’s
recommendation has also been faxed to the
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
May 1: KH Tomba, vice-chairman of United
National Liberation Front, is apprehended
along with his associate Abu Singh by a Special
Investigation Team of Assam Police at Lakhra
Patharquarry locality in Guwahati.
May 3: Despite opposition from Manipur
Government, NSCN-IM general secretary Th Muivah,
who arrived at Dimapur from New Delhi on May
1, is determined to visit his native village
Somdal in Ukhrul district of Manipur. “It
is my birth right. Who can stop me from going
to my village,” Muivah told reporters
after his arrival in Dimapur airport. Though
he was scheduled to go to his native village
on May 3, his visit has been deferred by a
day and he will leave on May 5.
May 4: Denouncing the Manipur Government’s
decision to prevent National Socialist Council
of Nagalim(IM)’s General Secretary Thuingaleng
Muivah’s visit to his native Somdal
village in Ukhrul district, Nagas in Manipur’s
Senapati, Chandel, Tamenglong and Ukhrul districts
defy prohibitory orders and stage sit-in demonstrations
and protest rallies at the district headquarters.
May 5: NSCN(I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng
Muivah sets out for his home village of Somdal
in Ukhrul district in neighbouring Manipur,
defying the Manipur government’s decision
not to allow him to enter the State. Muivah
left from Camp Hembron, the NSCN(IM) headquarters,
near Dimapur in a convoy escorted by members
of Naga civil society organisations and reached
here this afternoon. From there he will drive
to the Mao checkgate in Manipur, 40 km away,
said official sources.
May 6: NSCN(IM) leader T Muivah puts off
his visit to his ancestral village in Manipur.
Three among a crowd waiting to welcome him
across the border are killed in a stampede
when police fired teargas shells to disperse
them. Official reports say the Manipur police
fired teargas shells when the crowd waiting
at Mao on the inter-state border in Senapati
turned restive and burnt a vehicle of the
India Reserve Battalion.
May 6: Six Naga MLAs of Manipur tender their
resignation in protest against the State Government’s
act and inaction of the UPA Government.
May 6: Admitting that the situation in Manipur
is serious, Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram
says the Centre is trying to handle it, stressing
Centre would not shy away from making changes
in the Constitution to ensure that people
of North-East feel they are part of the country.
“In Manipur, there is a serious problem.
A person wants to go to his home village.
The Government there is resisting it. There
is a problem in Manipur. We are trying to
handle it,” he said replying to a discussion
on working of Home Ministry. The Home Minister
had summoned Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh
for a day in a bid to resolve the crisis in
the State.
May 7: The situation in Manipur continues
to be volatile for the second day after three
students were killed and about 70 injured
in clashes between security forces and supporters
of Naga separatist leader Thuingaleng Muivah.
More than 5,000 Nagas had gathered at Mao,
the border town between the two adjoining
states of Nagaland and Manipur, to welcome
Muivah on May 6.
May 7: Around 300 Naga students and activists
pelt stones at Manipur Bhavan in New Delhi
and try to storm it to protest the Manipur
government's refusal to allow Naga separatist
leader T. Muivah to visit the State.
May 10: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) asks the NSCN leader to put on hold
his proposed visit. According to highly placed
official sources, the Home Ministry has conveyed
its stand to Muivah, who is camping in a village
near the Nagaland-Manipur borders through
a special messenger and he has accepted the
request of the Centre. Sources said that Muivah
is likely to return to the NSCN headquarters
in camp Hebron.
May 11: Manipur hospitals put on hold all
routine surgeries due to non-availability
of oxygen cylinders while stocks of all essentials,
baby food, and life saving drugs have almost
dried up. An indefinite economic blockade
for the past one week enforced by various
Naga tribal groups to protest the Manipur
government's decision not to allow separatist
leader Thuingaleng Muivah to visit his birthplace
has literally brought the State to a halt.
May 13: As part of the initiative to ease
the scarcity of essential food items and medicine
supplies, the Centre is going to enlist support
of the Indian Air Force to airlift the supplies.
On the ground, there were signs of the blockade
easing off and efforts have been made to re-route
supplies through National Highway 53 via Assam.
May 14: National Socialist Council of Nagaland
(NSCN-IM) leader T. Muivah lements the Central
government's failure to persuade Manipur to
allow him visit his native village in the
State, but the Naga leader has acceded to
the government's request to defer his visit
for now. Speaking about Pillai's two-day visit
to Manipur and Nagaland, a senior Home Ministry
official told reporters that the Home Secretary
had to assuage Muivah's feeling of hurt by
citing the constitutional provision that law
and order was the State subject and a State
government can deny anybody access to any
part of its territory, if it apprehends a
breach of law and order. In a federal structure,
the Central government can do precious little,
it was explained to Muivah, the ministry official
said. Pillai had to cite past examples where
even ministers and senior leaders like Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) stalwarts LK Advani and
Sushma Swaraj had been denied access by the
West Bengal and Orissa governments in the
past.
May 17: The Imphal East district police
commandos arrest three cadres of the KCP (Tabungba)
faction and recover one IED from their possession.
The three cadres are arrested from their respective
residences at Andro area.
May 17: The Imphal east district commandos
arrest one PLA cadre from Wangkhei Keithel
Asangbi.
May 17: A team of the Imphal West district
commandos arrest one KYKL activist from near
the Uripok petrol pump.
May 17: A team of Imphal West district commandos
arrest one KCP (City Meitei) from Waheng Leikai
Jiri parking.
May 17: Troops of Red Shield Division, apprehend
an armed NSCN (IM) cadre in Tamenglong town.
May 18: A suspected NSCN (I-M) activist
is killed while the bomb he was planting under
a bridge along the stretch of the Imphal-Mao
section of the NH-39 in Senapati, blew up.
May 18: According to Manipur Government
spokesman N. Biren, Manipur-based All Manipur
Christian Union (AMCU) will meet civil society
organisations in Nagaland soon in connection
with the economic blockade along the National
Highways 39 (Imphal-Dimapur) and 53 (Imphal-Jiribam)
by some Naga organisations.
May 18: The Imphal West District Police
Commandos arrest two PREPAK activists from
Moirangkhom near the Oil Pump.
May 18: Imphal West District police commandos
arrest one KYKL activist from Keishampat Churachandpur
bus parking.
May 19: A meeting of the various political
parties including the MPP, NCP, CPI(M), RSP,
Forward Block, MPSC and JD(S) held under the
chairmanship of former Chief Minister and
NCP MLA, Radhabinod Koijam unanimously decides
that Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary
of NSCN(IM) should not be allowed to enter
the territory of Manipur stating that he is
a person who has persistently been campaigning
to disintegrate Manipur to form Greater Nagaland
and further as a person responsible for the
commission of many heinous crimes in the state.
May 19: The troops of 21 Assam Rifles apprehend
one overground activist of the proscribed
Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) from
Kakching Khunou Area.
May 20: A civil society forum, North East
Peoples’ Organization (NEPO), appeals
to the Union Government to intervene before
the situation deteriorates further in Manipur.
Various organizations of the region have already
submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh urging him to take appropriate
steps to lift the road blockade and protect
the territorial integrity of the North East.
May 26: A public meeting held at the community
hall of United Baptist Church (Liangmei) at
Tamenglong district Hqs under the aegis of
the Committee on Political Affairs (COPA)
Tamenglong resolve to invite and welcome NSCN
(IM) General Secretary Th Muivah to Tamenglong
district.
May 27: Self-styled chairman of a militant
outfit People’s United Liberation Front
(PULF) of Manipur MI Khan, arrested in Bangalore,
is brought to Imphal. Khan was nabbed by Manipur
Police with the help of their Karnataka counterpart
at Bangalore on May 23.
June 1: Thirteen underground cadres of Zao
People’s Army (ZPA) lay down arms before
Inspector General of Assam Rifles (South)
in a surrender ceremony at Assam Rifles headquarters
at Mantripukhuri near Imphal. The founding
president of the armed group Lingkhankhup
Zou alias Khupkhan and a lady cadre Veronica
were among the surrendered militants.
June 8: Presidents of two organisations,
which had launched an indefinite economic
blockade on National Highways in Manipur since
April 12, are declared 'wanted' by the State
government with a cash reward of rupees one
lakh each on their heads. Acting presidents
of the All Naga Students' Association Manipur
David Choro (38) and United Naga Council Samson
Remei (50) have been declared 'wanted' by
the Manipur government on June 5.
June 10: Armed miscreants shot dead a woman
at Phairen Village under Sekmai Police station,
Sadar hills. The victim was identified as
one Gurumayum Ibemcha alias Premita, 38, d/o
(L) G. Khomei of Ahallup Mamang Leikai.
June 10: A KYKL cadre surrender along with
arms and ammunition before 29 Assam Rifles
of 26 sector under HQ IGAR (S) in general
area Chamol of Chandel district.
June 20: The government is planning to
go ahead with certain amendments in the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act which includes handing
over of an Army personnel in case of extrajudicial
killings to the State authorities.
June 20: Manipur police commandos deployed
at the two entry points along the Nagaland-Manipur
border to prevent NSCN (IM) general secretary
Thuingaleng Muivah’s visit to his home
village in Ukhrul district, have been withdrawn.
June 4 and 9: 13 Zou People’s Army
cadres and six militants belonging to the
People’s Liberation Army and the Kangleipak
Communist Party- Military Council (KCP-MC)
had surrendered to the Assam Rifles and Red
Shield division separately.
June 23: Imphal West police commando arrest
three activist of the proscribed KCP from
Takyel Kolom Leikai
June 24: An ROP team of BSF headquarters
personnel apprehends a KCP suspect from Lamlong
Bazaar, namely Md. Amar Shah alias Boby, 19,
s/o (L) Md. Rafique of Keirang
June 26: 19 hardcore members of three militants
groups lay down arms and surrender to Manipur
DGP Yumnam Joy Kumar and Major General CA
Krishnan, Inspector General of Assam Rifles
(South) at Assam Rifles headquarters at Mantripukhuri
near Imphal. The surrendered militants are
– 15 United Liberation Army, three Kanglei
Yawol Kanna Lup and a self-styled Sergeant
Major of the United National Liberation Front
July 6: Security forces gun down a suspected
militant in a pre-dawn operation, while three
persons are hurt when suspected militants
explode a bomb in at a private clinic in Manipur.
July 17: Y Manaoba, 23, who is abducted
from Yourbung area. The victim is son of Y
Megha, secretary of Lamlai local council of
CPI. Persons claiming to be from the militant
outfit Kangleipak Communist Party-Mobile Task
Force (KCP-MTF), City Meitei faction, called
him up to say that his son was in their custody.
July 19: Unidentified militants kidnap three
persons, including two children, from different
parts of Manipur. L Nganba Meitei (12) and
N Kuber (10) were kidnapped when they were
playing at a local playground near their houses
at Chingarel in Imhal East district.
July 19: Kunal Chakravorty (38), a medical
student hailing from Tripura, has been rescued
from near Kangavi in Churachandpur district
after he was abducted by Kuki National Organisation,
Jackson faction on July 18.
August 3: Two UNLF members are arrested
in Goa. Navren Manimohan Singh, 36 and Shahid
Rashid, 32, of the United National Liberation
Front (UNLF) are arrested from two separate
locations in the state late Monday night,
Superintendent of Police (Criminal Investigation
Department) Atmaram Deshpande told reporters.
August 7: Three alleged members of different
underground groups are arrested by a team
of Imphal West district Police commandos from
Goa have been brought back to the state. The
two KCP activists are identified as Naorem
Manimohan Meitei alias Amit alias Kaoba, 36
yrs, son of N Birchand Singh of Tentha Khunou
Bazar, and Sahid alias John alias Khamba,
32 yrs, son of Rashiddullah of Phaobitak Mayai
Leikai while the lone UNLF activist has been
identified as Sapam Mohon alias Iboyaima alias
Sanatomba, 37 yrs, son of late S Bheigya Singh
of Tentha.
August 13: A United National Liberation
Front militant is arrested and a five kg bomb
recovered from his possession at Nambol in
Manipur’s Bishenpur district.
August 14: A combined team of Thoubal district
police commandos and 21 AR gun down a militant
suspect, arrest one militant cadre, and also
nab three armed gangsters, in separate counter
insurgency operations launched on the eve
of Independence Day. Thincidents took place
in and around the general area of Wabagai
Terapishak Ngatek Khong launched.
August 17: Police commandos arrest two cadres
of the proscribed PREPAK in separate incidents
in Thoubal district.
August 19: Eleven militants, including two
women cadres, belonging to Manipur-based outfit
UNLF are arrested from three different places
following an operation by the City Police.
Sources in the police department while confirming
the arrest informed that the cadres were picked
up from areas like Motghoria, Chachal and
Hengrabari.
August 19: Troops of 33 Assam Rifles under
Red Shield Division arrest one cadre of KYKL
from Moirang Thoya Leikai of Bishnupur district.
August 19: The Home Minister rules out any
division of Manipur as demanded by some Naga
groups. He said the government would ensure
‘honour, dignity and equal rights’
of the Nagas within the constitution.
August 21: A team of commandos Imphal East
arrest a PREPAK cadre named Thiyam Birmangol
alias Tachou Singh, 58, son of Late Th Chandramani
Singh of Patsoi Part-III from Checkon crossing
August 21: A combined team of Imphal East
commandos and 28 Assam Rifles arrest two PREPAK
cadres named Chingsubam Lalit alias Nanao
Singh, 23, son of Late Ch Rona Singh of Thangmeiband
Yumnam Leikai and Chingsubam Johnny alias
Amuba Singh, 18, son of Late Ch Romy of Thangmeiband
Yumnam Leikai from Singjamei Bamon Leikai.
August 21: Two PREPAK cadres, Chabungbam
Kiran alias Keirungba Singh, 45, son of Ch
Amubi Singh of Keirao Lairembi Leikai and
Nepram Sanjoy alias Eshu Singh, 22, son of
N Shyam Singh of Thongju Pheija Leitong are
arrested from their respective houses.
August 21: Troops of 15 Assam Rifles of
9 sector under HQ IGAR (S) apprehend one PULF
(Umar Farooq faction) in the general area
of Yairipok.
August 21: A combined team of Thoubal district
police commandos and 42 AR arrest a cadre
of the proscribed UNLF while conducting a
search operation in and around Tentha Khunjao
August 22: According to a release of the
SP Imphal west district, a team of Imphal
west district police commandos acting on credible
information arrests one UNLF activist from
Khuman Palli near MMTA.
August 22: A team of commando Imphal East,
39 Assam Rifles and 16 Maratha arrest two
KYKL (MDF) cadres namely Khangembam Amitra
alias Netra alias Amarjit Singh, 37, son of
Kh Indrajit Singh of Moirang Khunou and Elangbam
Ngouba Meitei, 33, son of E Gulapi Meitei
of Tentha Makha Leikai from Chingmeirong Mamang
Leikai and recover one Nokia cell phone with
SIM card from the possession of Ngouba.
August 22: A combined team of Thoubal CDO
and 42 AR while conducting search operations
at Pallel area arrest two cadres of the KCP
(MC).
August 22: Two suspected militants are killed
in an encounter with security forces at Tairenpokpi
village in Senapati district.
August 22: A joint team of 39 Assam rifles
and 16 Maratha Light Infantry under the aegis
of Red Shield division arrest a self styled
district commander of Imphal East of the proscribed
KCP (MC) Tabungba faction namely Amarjeet
Hing Embam Singh, 32, son of Indra Singh of
Chingmeirong along with his accomplice Ngouba
Meitei, 33, son of Gulpi Meitei of Tenla Makha
Leikai.
August 22: In an operation by the 16 Maratha
Light infantry under 57 Mountain Division
two cadres of the proscribed PLA and over
worker of KCP (MC) are arrested.
August 23: Troops of Assam Rifles located
at Thoubal of 9 Sector under HQ IGAR (South)
apprehend one KYKL cadre from the general
area of Yambam.
August 23: A combined team of Imphal East
commandos and 23 Assam Rifles arrest a PREPAK
(GS) cadre namely Moirangthem Ibomcha alias
Chingkhei Singh, 39, son of M Nongyai Singh
of Pukhao Naharup from the general area of
Yambam.
August 23: A combined team of Thoubal commandos
and 21 AR apprehend a KCP(MC) while conducting
frisking along Sugnu road between Elangkhangpokpi
and Thongjao.
Aug 23: Five hardcore cadres of a newly
floated militant organization jointly formed
by the Meitei Tangkhul, Kabui called “Manipur
National Liberation Front” (MNLF) under
the chairmanship of one Nobin alias Khuman
of Tumukhong Moirang Purel Imphal east district,
along with one 1st Indian Reserve Battalion
personnel presently attached to CDOs Imphal
east are arrested by the Bishnupur district
commandos from Malom Tuliyama Awang Leikai
under Nambol police station.
August 23: Troops of Assam Rifles located
at Thoubal of 9 Sector under HQ IGAR (South)
launch operation in general area of Yambem
apprehend one KYKL militant.
August 23: A joint security team of Thoubal
district police commandos and troops of 42
Assam Rifles nab one overground worker of
UNLF during a search operation conducted at
Tentha Khunjao area.
August 24: A KCP (Noyon faction) cadre
is arrested by a combined force of the Imphal
West district Police and Assam Rifles from
Thangmeiband Lilasingkhongnangkhong crossing.
August 24: Assam Rifles arrest a PREPAK
cadre in Imphal East district.
August 24: A cadre belonging to Nando faction
of the KCP is arrested by the Assam Rifles
in Lilong area in Thoubal district.
August 24: Assam Rifles arrest a Naga National
Worker (People Safeguard Group) cadre, identified
as Yaokhaiek (30) and one NSCN-IM cadre from
Phungcham road junction area in Ukhrul district.
August 24: The Imphal West district Police
arrest two PLA cadres respectively from near
Shanti Guest Hostel of Thangal Bazar and Sagolband
Moirang Leirak water supply scheme area.
August 25: A suspected militant ias shot
dead by the Thoubal district Police during
an encounter at Wangjing Tengtha.
August 25:A cadre belonging to KK Nganba
faction of the KCP is arrested a by a combined
force of the Thoubal district Police and Assam
Rifles from Kakching Khunou area in Thoubal
district.
August 25: Suspected KRA cadres assault
the chairman of the Village Chief Association
of Sadar Hill and his accomplice, who were
abducted from Leimakhong bazaar area in Senapati
district.
August 25: Three KYKL militants are arrested
by Assam Rifles in Khongkom bazar area and
handed over to the Thoubal district Police.
August 25: Thoubal district Police arrest
two PLA cadres from Wabgai Lamkhai bazar area.
August 25: One cadre of Lamyanba Khuman
faction of the KCP and one PREPAK militant
are arrested by the Imphal East district Police
in two separate search operations.
August 25:One NSCN-K militant is arrested
by the Imphal West district Police from Keisampat.
August 26: One NSCN-IM is arrested by the
Imphal West district Police from Deulahland.
August 26: An OGW of the PLA is arrested
by the Assam Rifles personnel at Tengnoupal
along National Highway -39. He was travelling
in a vehicle from Imphal to Moreh.
August 27: The designated camp of the Samuel
group of the KNF, a signatory of the SoO is
opened at Lhanjang village, about 27 kilometers
from Lamka in Churachandpur district.
August 27: A Military Council faction cadre
of the KCP is arrested by the Imphal East
district Police from his residence at Singjamei
Wangma Bheigyapati Leikai.
August 27: Three cadres of the Military
Council faction of the KCP are arrested from
their respective houses.
August 28: Two PREPAK cadres are arrested
by a combined force of the Army and Bishnupur
district Police from Oinam Bazar area.
August 28: A KCP cadre is arrested by the
Imphal West district Police from Keishampat
area.
August 28: Two UPPK cadres are arrested
by the Imphal West district Police in two
separate search operations at Thongju Part-II
and Takyel Kolup Leikai areas. Another woman
cadre of the UPPK is arrested by the Imphal
West district Police.
August 29: Two PREPAK cadres are arrested
by a combined force of the Assam Rifles and
Thoubal district Police from Sekmaijin Thongam
area.
August 29: One KYKL militant is arrested
by a combined force of the Thoubal district
Police and Assam Rifles at Leishangthem Thoudam.
August 30: A cadre belonging to Azad faction
of the PULF is arrested by the Assam Rifles
in Thoubal district.
August 30: A PULF cadre is arrested by
a combined force the Thoubal district Police
and Assam Rifles from Kuraopokpi area.
August 30: Two PREPAK cadres are arrested
by the Thoubal district Police from Kairembikhok
Mamang Leikai Chingmacha area.
August 30: A PREPAK cadre is arrested by
the Assam Rifles personnel from Moreh town
in Chandel district.
August 31: A suspected militant is gunned
down by a combined security team at Ngariyan
Hill range near Andro police station.
August 31: Three persons including a retired
taxation inspector sustained splinter injuries
in a grenade blast at Chingmeirong.
August 31: Two women cadres belonging to
Military Council faction of the KCP are arrested
by a combined force of the Imphal East district
Police and Assam Rifles from Khongman Mangjil
area.
August 31: A militant of the Military Council
faction of the KCP is arrested from Singjamei
Bheigapati Leikai area.
August 31: One cadre of the Military Council
faction of the KCP is arrested by the Imphal
East district Police from New Checkon area.
August 31: Suspected Valley-based armed
groups assault villagers including the pastor
and elders and threatened them with drastic
consequences at Mapaokhullen village under
Saikul sub-division of Senapati district,
on charges of being informers of the State
Police.
September 2: Suspected Kuki militants abduct
a Superintending Engineer of Manipur Public
Health Engineering Department, at gunpoint
from a place near his residence at Kwakeithel
area in Imphal West district.
September 2: Two PREPAK cadres are arrested
by the Imphal East district Police from Lamlong
Bazar.
September 2: A PREPAK cadre is arrested
by the Imphal East district Police during
a search operation.
September 3: A PREPAK militant is arrested
by a combined force of Thoubal district Police
and Assam Rifles from Sekmaijin Ningol Khong
area.
September 3: KCP militant is arrested by
a combined force of the Imphal West district
Police and Assam Rifles from North AOC area.
September 3: A militant of the Military
Defense Force faction of the KYKL is arrested
by a combined force of the Imphal East district
Police and Assam Rifles from Thambalkhong
Bridge.
September 3: Two officials of the Food Corporation
of India, who were abducted by suspected NSCN-K
cadres on August 31, are released un-harmed
in Senapati district.
September 4: A PREPAK cadre is arrested
by the Imphal East district Police from Sekta
Mayai Leikai.
September 4: A PULF cadre is arrested by
the Imphal East district Police from Golapti
Maning Leikai area.
September 7: Six militants including two
KCP, one UPPK and three PLA cadres surrendered
to DGP, Manipur Yumnam Joykumar and Major
General C A Krishnan, Inspector General Assam
Rifles (South) at Mantripukhuri Assam Rifles
complex.
September 8: Two leaders of UNLNF are apprehended
by the City Police from Noonmati area in Guwahati.
Both are the residents of Imphal, police sources
said.
2009
January 3: Four militants are killed in separate encounters
with security personnel in Imphal East and
Bishenpur districts of Manipur. A joint team
of police commandos and Assam Rifles raided
Sanjenbam village in Imphal East district
and an encounter an unidentified militant
is killed. In a separate incident in Bishenpur
district, two militants are gunned down during
an encounter with security personnel at Potsangbam
area. In yet another incident, security personnel
shoot dead another unidentified militant at
Kumbi area in Bishenpur district.
January 4: Unidentified militants kill two suspected cadres
of Military Council faction of the Kangleipak
Communist Party (KCP) at Koutruk Lairou under
Lamsang Police Station in the Imphal West
District.
January 4: A combined force of the Imphal West District
Police and troops of the Maratha Light Infantry
kill two suspected People’s Revolutionary
Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) cadres at Ishok
under Wangoi Police Station.
January 6: A combined force of Imphal West District Police
and Assam Rifles arrest a cadre of the General
Secretary faction of the KCP, identified as
Laishram Kiran alias Momo alias Anoppa, from
near Krishna Premi oil pump at Moirangkhom.
January 10: Thoubal District Police kill two suspected People's
Liberation Army (PLA) cadres during an encounter
near the Buffalo Farm junction at Kharungpat.
January 11: A combined team of Thoubal District Police and
Assam Rifles kill a suspected Kanglei Yawol
Kanna Lup (KYKL) cadre during an encounter
near Angangching along Tejpur Road.
January 12: One suspected militant is shot dead by the Security
Forces (SFs) at Kimang Chanba Langjing Laingam
Khun under Lamsang Police Station.
January 13: SFs kill a suspected PREPAK militant during
an encounter in the Khopum valley of Tamenglong
District.
January 13: SFs kill a suspected PULF militant, Mohammed
Ayub Ali, at Khergao Keikhu bridge in the
Imphal East District.
January 14: In an encounter with the Police at Chanba Longa
Koireng under the Patsoi Police station in
the Imphal West District a suspected militant
is killed.
January 14: During an encounter with the Police a suspected
KCP cadre is killed at a junction between
Tentha-Moirangpalli in the Thoubal District.
January 15: In an encounter with the SFs three suspected
militants are killed at Nongmada under Lamlai
Police station in the Imphal East District.
January 17: A militant is shot dead by a combined team of
police and Assam Rifles during an encounter
at Umathel area in Manipur’s Thoubal
district.
January 17: In another encounter between police and Assam
Rifles and armed militants near Hayel Labuk
in Thoubal district one militant is killed.
January 17: Two militants were killed in an encounter with
the police at Khurkhul area in Imphal West
district.
January 17: Seven top leaders and cadres of the underground
KCP are arrested in a swift and well planned
operation code named ‘Operation Grand
Slam’ conducted by a joint team of the
57 Mountain Division, Bishnupur police commandos
and special branch of the Delhi police in
New Delhi.
January 18: According to Assam Rifles, five UNLF militants
are killed in retaliatory firing at Khenjang
in the Chandel District.
January 19: A person by the name of Elangbam Toto, son of
E Ibohal,
of Keishamthong charges that he was abducted
from his work place by masked security personnel
some of whom spoke Manipuri and others Hindi
at 8.30pm on January 17 and threatened death.
He was released when he promised to pay them
a sum of Rs. 1,50,000 he charged.
January 19: Police shoot dead a suspected KYKL militant
during an encounter at Wabagai Leirak Achouba
under Kakching Police Station in Thoubal District.
January 20: City Meitei, the leader of the underground KCP
(City Meitei) group is nabbed in an operation
carried out by the 57 Mtn Div, Manipur police
and the Bangalore
police at Bangalore.
January 20: A combined force of the Imphal West District
Police and Assam Rifles kills two suspected
KYKL cadres during an encounter along the
road connecting Kanglatongbi and Makhan under
Sekmai Police Station in the Senapati District.
January 21: SFs kill a suspected militant during an encounter
under Heingang Police Station in the Imphal
East District.
January 22: A combined team of Thoubal District Police and
Assam Rifles kill a KYKL cadre, identified
as Khumukcham Thoiba alias Tomba alias Jilla,
during an encounter at Wabagai Leirak Achouba.
January 22: According to Sangai Express, Assam
Rifles personnel have laid siege across a
NSCN-IM camp at Siroy in the Ukhrul District
since January 18 after they discovered the
same.
January 22: Six Assam Rifles men, including a junior commissioned
officer, are gunned down by a rifleman of
the force in Manipur’s Ukhrul district
in one of the worst fratricidal killings involving
security personnel.
January 23: After three days of standoff between a group
of NSCN(IM) men, who tried to set up a camp
in Siroi village, and troops of the Assam
Rifles, the NSCN(IM) men seek safe passage
of their men to their officially recognized
designated camps.
January 24: Four banned insurgent organizations call a 17-hour
general strike on Republic Day in Northeastern
States. The Manipur People’s Liberation
Front (MPLF), United Liberation Front of Asom
(ULFA), North Bengal-based Kamtapur Liberation
Organisation (KLO) and Tripura People’s
Democratic Front (TPDF) said in a statement
that the strike would begin from 1 am and
end at 6 pm on January 26.
January 24: Three BSF personnel are hurt in a militant strike
in Manipur's Bishnupur district.
January 24: In an encounter between suspected UNLF activists
and 193 Bn BSF at Ithai under Kumbi police
station, two BSF jawans are killed and one
seriously injured is hospitalised at the RIMS
hospital.
January 28: Four underground militants are killed in encounters
with the security forces.
January 29: Troops of 28 Assam Rifles arrest one cadre of
each of proscribed PLA and KYKL from Andro
Bazar during a frisking drive. The PLA cadre
is identified as Puthem Khelen Singh (20),
while the KYKL cadre is identified as Puthem
Amuchou Singh alias Saratchandra (19). The
arrested are handed over to Yairipok Police
Station. In another incident, troops of 34
AR arrest one PULF (Azad) cadre by establishing
a mobile vehicle check post on road from Bamon
Leikai to Khoirom.
January 30: The stand off between the Assam Rifles and the
NSCN (IM) enters the 12th day over the opening
of a camp of the latter at Siroy village in
Ukhrul district. The State Government submits
a written missive to the Prime Minister and
the Union Home Minister categorically stating
that there can be no question of any designated
camp of the IM group in Manipur.
January 30: A group of militants abduct three district supply
officers (DSO) of the state FCS department
namely S Iboton (Imphal west district supply
officer), W Deven
(Imphal east district supply officer) and
Th Bhumeshore (Bishnupur district supply officer).
The officials are detained by the militants
for a huge monetary demand served to the state
FCS department. Later United People's Party
of Kangleipak (UPPK) claims to the media that
they abducted three officials of the Food
and Civil Supply (FCS) department.
January 31: Imphal West District Police Commandos arrest
two UNLF activists from Vijang village along
National Highway 53. The arrested activists
are identified as Sarangthem Naobi alias Amu
(30) s/o S Kala Singh of Top Moirang Kampu
and Ayekpam Bijandro Singh (27) s/o late A
Joykumar Singh of Top Mayai Leikai.
February 1: Stand- off between the NSCN-IM and Assam Rifles
at Shiroy village in Manipur’s Ukhrul
district since January 19 cripples normal
life of the villagers in the area. On January
18, an Assam Rifles patrol party detected
an NSCN-IM camp with heavy weaponry at the
construction site of a tourist home at Shiroy,
a tiny hamlet around 100 km north of here.
After surrounding the camp, they asked the
Naga rebel group to vacate the area immediately
but the latter refused to move out saying
that is one of their designated camps.
February 1: Two suspected PREPAK militants are killed in
an encounter with a combined force of Imphal
East commandos and troops of 28 AR at Top
Yaralpat under Porompat police station in
Imphal East district.
February 2: The stand- off between the Assam Rifles troops
and NSCN-IM cadres at Shiroy village in Manipur’s
Ukhrul district, the native place of the outfit’s
supremo Thuingaleng Muivah, is resolved as
the latter vacated the area.
February 2: Security forces nab five militants in the last
two days in separate incidents, including
one KYKL, one KCP(MC), two UNLF activists.
February 2: The project officer of the Manipur Fisheries
department, H. Biramani, is abducted by Suspected
KCP militants from his residence at Sagolband
area in the Imphal West District.
February 3: A KCP-MC suspect is killed by the Imphal east
police commandos within the jurisdiction of
Imphal east police station.
February 3: Two unidentified cadres of PREPAK are eliminated
by the troops of 57 Mountain Division along
with Imphal West Police Commandos in general
area Kangchup Makhon.
February 3: A KCP-MC suspect is killed by the Imphal east
police commandos within the jurisdiction of
Imphal east police station.
February 3: The NSCN–IM accepts the safe passage offered
by the Assam Rifles at Siroy village in the
Ukhrul District. The outfit’s armed
wing, the Naga Army of Kiusumong Battalion,
vacates its camp after holding it for more
than 15 days.
February 4: Unidentified militants abduct a Manipur Government
official from his house in Imphal West district
and demand a ransom of Rs 30 lakh for his
safe release.
February 4: In a joint verdict, five underground organisations,
UNLF, RPF, KYKL, PREPAK and KCP, award death
sentence to two men who according to them,
are the culprits in the rape and murder case
of a handicapped vendor in Moreh at about
8 pm on the evening of January 22.
February 4: A combined force of Thoubal District Police
Commandos and personnel of 21 Assam Rifles
kill a suspected activist of the proscribed
PREPAK during an encounter at Kakching Khunou
under Waikhong Police Station of Thoubal district.
February 4: UPPK claims responsibility for the abduction
of three officials of the Manipur Food and
Civil Supplies Department, who are in the
outfit’s confinement since January 30.
February 5: An unidentified militant is killed in an encounter
with a combined team of Thoubal police and
Assam
rifle personnel forces at Kakching Khunou
in Manipur’s Thoubal district.
February 7: The Thoubal District Police kill a suspected
KYKL cadre during an encounter at Phundrei
Langathel.
February 9: Four militants are killed in separate encounters
with security personnel in Chandel, Thoubal
and Imphal West districts of Manipur.
February 10: UPPK states that it had released three abducted
officials of the Manipur Food and Civil Supplies
Department.
February 12: Security Forces shoot dead a suspected militant,
Laitanthem Baleshor, during an encounter at
the Ningombam crossing under Singjamei Police
Station of Imphal West District.
February 14: Assam Rifles personnel
kill two suspected militants during an encounter
at Maringthel area in the Chandel District.
February 16: Three senior officials of the State Food and
Civil Supplies Department are suspended by
Manipur Government on the charge of meeting
militants. The Food and Civil Supplies Minister
Yumkham Erabot Singh said these officials
were suspended for violating a standing Government
order prohibiting any official from meeting
militants.
February 17: The Sub-Divisional Officer of Khasom Khullen
in the Senapati District, Thinam Kishan, and
his two colleagues are killed by suspected
militants. They were abducted by militants
on February 13.
February 18: In a clash between cadres of the NSCN-IM and
combined cadres of the PREPAK and Naga National
Council, four militants are killed and three
others wounded at Thanagong village under
Nungba Sub-Division in the Tamenglong District.
The slain and wounded militants belong to
the combined PREPAK and NNC outfits.
February 20: Indefinite curfew imposed at around 5 pm last
evening in both Imphal East and Imphal West
districts as several organisations planned
large scale agitation in the wake of the killing
of Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) Th Kishan,
his driver Aribam Rajen and an official Y
Token by suspected hill-based militants on
February 17. Last evening three women were
injured after police fired 30 teargas shells
in Imphal West district.
February 21: The three missing Manipur officials who were
abducted along with the Sub Divisional Officer
and two others last week, are rescued. The
rescued officials are Ramthing Tangkhul, Ramsing
Tangkhul and Kh Zimik, residents of Ukhrul
district.
February 22: The NSCN-IM’s armed wing, Naga Army says
that one of its 'commanding officers', is
the mastermind in the killing of three Manipur
Government officials in the Ukhrul District.
February 23: The Manipur Government asks the cease-fire
monitoring cell in Dimapur in Nagaland and
the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to hand
over the NSCN-IM militants involved in the
abduction and killing of three officials to
the State Government for trial.
February 27: Two suspected UGs are killed in an encounter
with Imphal east police commandos at Lamlong
Thongkhong.
February 28: Troops arrest four PLA, KCP and KYKL militants.
March 1: Two cadres of the KCP are nabbed by the commandos
of Thoubal district during frisking and checking
at Thoubal Haokha. The two are identified
as Nameirakpam Boby Singh, 25, and Tonjam
Arjun Singh, 25, of Lilong Chajing Pukhri
Achouba Mapal.
March 6: Commandos of the Thoubal district police
conducts an operation at Sagolband Teraand arrest a cadre of the KYKL named
Kshetrimayum Suresh Singh, 25, of Sagolband
Tera Sapam Leirak.
March 7: A combined team of Assam Rifles and State police
commandos gun down four hardcore militants
including the chairman of the banned People’s
United Liberation Front (Azad group).
March 7: Two suspected militants are killed in two separate
incidents in Chandel district and Cachar road.
March 8: The Assam Rifles in association with Manipur police
commandos rescue two kidnapped girls from
the hands of suspected Kangleipak Communist
Party (Nandu faction) at Khangabko village
in Thoubal district. The rescued girls are
Angom Asha (22) and K Pemavati (19) from Moirang
under Bishnupur district. They were abducted
from Imphal West by suspected KCP (Nandu faction)
on March 5.
March 10: The Thoubal district commandos and 34 Assam Rifles
arrest a KYKL cadre named Khundongbam Sunil
Singh alias Inaoton alias Ngacap, 18, from
near Heirok Part-III Champrathong.
March 10: The Imphal west district police commandos and
12 Maratha Light Infantry arrest two KYKL
activists from Uripok Yambem Leikai.The two
militants were identified as Mutum Dinesh
alias Ibungo, 26, and Sagolsem Atoy alias
Lukhoibi, 25, of Yairipok Angtha Mamang Leikai.
March 10: A militant belonging to the UNLF is arrested by
the Imphal west district police commandos.
He is identified as Leishangthem Nanao Singh
alias Surchandra Singh, 36, of Tera Sapam
Leirak.
March 10: The Imphal west commandos arrest a PREPAK activist
from Kangchup Chingkhong. He is identified
as Langoljam Shamjai alias Ibungo alias Khaba,
41, of Langthabal Lep Mayai.
March 10: Two KYKL activists are arrested by the Imphal
west commandos at around 5.30 pm from Meitei
Lamkhai, Lilong Chajing. They are identified
as Loitongbam Dayananda Singh alias Chabi,
31, of Thoubal Ningombam and Ningthoujam Dinesh
Singh, 33, of Thanga Lawai.
March 10: The Imphal east commandos arrest a woman cadre
of the KCP(MC) named Yumkhaibam Sanahanbi,
43, of Heirangoithong Maibam Leikai from Lamlong
bazar.
Mar 16: A release signed by Ksh. Yoiheiba, Senior Publicity
Officer, UNLF states that on morning of 10
March 2009 two cadre of MPA were arrested
by Imphal West Police Commando from a house
at Sekmaijin Thong and killed.
March 18: Unidentified militants set off a bomb at the house
of Chief Manager of Hydro Electric Project,
Ibopishak Singh at Langol area in Imphal West
district.
March 19: Troops of 34 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under HQ
IGAR (South) launch operation in general area
Khangabok and apprehend one KCP cadre.
March 19: The Thoubal district commandos and 34 Assam Rifles
arrest a cadre of the KCP named Pukhrambam
Nanao Singh alias Awangakpa alias Ibomcha,
24, of Langathel Khunou during frisking and
checking at Khangabok bazar.
March 19: An active member of the UNLF named Kongbrailatpam
Milan Sharma, 18, of Sambram Mayai Leikai
is arrested by a team of the Thoubal commandos
during frisking and checking at Wangjing bazar.
March 20: A militant is killed in an encounter with a combined
team of the Thoubal commandos and 34 Assam
Rifles in Samaram and Marongband village area.
March 21: One non-local is shot dead by unidentified gunmen
in Manipur’s Imphal West district.
March 23: Unidentified gunmen shots 38-year-old businessman
Deepak Gupta, owner of an electronic outlet
at his Thangal Bazaar shop.
March 23: In a search operation conducted by a combined
team of Thoubal commandos and 21 AR at Khoidumpat,
a cadre of the PREPAK named Ningthoujam Rajendro
Singh, of Laphupat Tera Part-II is arrested.
March 23: In a frisking and checking operation conducted
by Thoubal commandos at Thoubal Haokha and
Kiyam village a PREPAK cadre is arrested.
March 23: One PREPAK and one KYKL cadres are arrested in
Sekmai by troops of 39 Assam Rifles.
March 24: A suspected militant is shot dead in an encounter
with a team of Thoubal district commandos
and the troops of 21 Assam Rifles along the
Waikhong-Sugnu axis.
March 25: Troops of the 57 Mt Div along with Imphal west
commandos kill a militant at Tairenpokpi in
Bishnupur district.
March 25: A combined team of the Imphal east commandos and
28 Assam Rifles arrest a KCP cadre named Lamginlen
Haokip alias Hegin, of Churachandpur Kanan
Veng from Kongba crossing.
March 25:A team
of Imphal east commandos arrest a cadre of
United KomRem Revolutionary Army, UKRA, named
Thongkhohao Guite alias Haopu alias Nicolas.
March 26: Five cadres of the Kangleipak Communist Party
(KCP), a Manipur based militant outfit, working
in the recruitment cell of the outfit under
the command of one Korou are arrested by the
Thoubal district police commandos from different
locations in Manipur.
March 28: Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), in a press release,
claimes responsibility for the killing of
Deepak Gupta, a trader of Thangal Bazar, who
was shot dead in his shop on March 23.
March 28: Imphal east commandos arrest a United People’s
Party of Kangleipak cadre named Pukhrambam
Prepa alias Guide, of Liwa road Oinam Leikai
from Lamlong bazar.
March 29: Police commandos gun down a youth suspected to
be an ultra in a reported encounter in Imphal
East district.
March 30: Eight people are injured in a bomb explosion at
Mayang Imphal market.
March 30: Imphal East police kill a suspected militant at
Pangei.
March 30: A man is found shot dead at Minuthong.
March 30: Troops of the 28 Assam Rifles apprehend a PREPAK
cadre. He is handed over to the Yairipok police
station.
March 31: Three ultras (Th Chandrakumar of PREPAK, and 2
KYKL militants) are arrested by Imphal East
police and 28 Assam Rifles from Kongpal.
April 1: One PREPAK and one KYKL ultras are nabbed by the
police in separate incidents from Litan Piphong
and Thoubal district respectively.
April 3: Four persons involved in an assault on one M Tombi
Singh, an advocate and brother-in-law of M
(O) Ranisana, chairperson of the Imphal Municipal
Council on March 24 are arrested along with
a Maruti van. The four are activists of the
UPPK faction of the underground PREPAK.
April 3: Four UPPK cadres are arrested by the Imphal East
District Police from Porompat.
April 4: Security forces gun down two suspected UNLF militants
in an encounter at Nognada area in Imphal
East District.
April 4: In an encounter with a combined team of Thoubal
commandos, 23 and 39 Assam Rifles, two suspected
militants are killed. The two deceased are
identified as Oinam Premjit alias Tondomba,
22 and Khwairakpam Kunja alias Konthoi, 25
of Thanga Ething Leikai.
April 4: The district police along with commandos of Thoubal
police conduct combing operation at Salungpham
Mayai Leikai and arrest a woman cadre of the
PLA/RPF named Nandeibam Aruna alias Kunjeshori
alias Cheche alias Abe alias CRP alias Arunibala,
30, along with a harbourer of the outfit named
Akham Manglembi, 28, daughter of A Indra Singh
of Salungpham Mayai Leikai.
April 4: Acting on credible information the Imphal west
district police commandos arrest two KCP(Noyon)
group from the Palace Compound area in Imphal
east.
April 5: Two suspected UNLF cadres are shot dead by a combined
force of Thoubal police commandos, 23 and
39 Assam Rifles in an encounter at Nongada
in Imphal East.
April 5: The KCP owns up responsibility for the assassination
of Salam Joy at Athouba, son of Thoibal of
Arong Nongmaikhong, saying the slain man was
once a member of its armed wing the Meeyamgi
Feengang Lanmi, MFL. Joy was found shot at
Pourabi Nunggoi at 7pm on April 3. A press
release said Joy was killed for working against
the interest of the party.
April 6: A suspected militant of Lanheiba group of KCP is
shot dead by Assam Rifles personnel in an
encounter near Leishang village in Churachandpur
District.
April 6: One unidentified militants is killed by security
forces in Bishenpur District.
April 6: One unidentified militant is killed in encounter
with Assam Rifles personnel in Churachandpur
district.
April 6: The Imphal east commandos arrest three KRF cadres
from the Mahabali area. They are identified
as SL Paul Gangte, 29, of Churachandpur Tuibong
village, Mangcha Kuki, 26, of Kangpokpi bazar
and Pilun Chongloi alias Alum, 20, of Champhai
village, Senapati district.
April 6: An active member of the PLA named Thokchom Bijen
Singh, 20, son of Th Megha Singh of Heirok
bazar is arrested by the Thoubal district
commandos from the Heirok bazar.
April 6: Troops of the 21 Assam Rifles apprehend two KCP
cadres during an operation at Sugnu Napath
Mayai Lambi. They are identified as Heikrujam
Ngongo alias Ebohal Meitei, 19, and Ningthoujam
Dollen Meitei alias Chinglain, 18, son of
N Koidam Meitei resident of Napath Mayai Lambi.
April 9: Police commandos in Thoubal district kill three
militants in a encounter.
April 9: One PULF cadre, Ningobum Premeswar Singh (40),
is held by a combined team of Imphal East
commandos and troops of 28 AR from Okram Chuthek,
Imphal East.
April 9: Two UNLF ultras are arrested by police in Thoubal
district.
April 10: Three KCP militants are shot dead by police in
an encounter at Ekop pat in Thoubal district.
April 12: Commandos of the Thoubal district police arrest
a PULF (Quaji Umar faction) named Md Islamuddin
alias Megha, 37, of Lilong Turel Ahanbi.
April 14: Three PREPAK militants are gunned down by army
in the Loktak lake area of Bishnupur District.
April 14: 14 Assam Rifles soldiers are killed and more than
10 injured in two different but related ambush
sites falling within the Ukhrul district,
according to a press release by the senior
publicity officer of the Manipur People’s
Army, MPA, the armed wing of the underground
UNLF. The MPA release says fighters of its
battalion No: 241, lay an ambush on a convoy
of the Assam Rifles at 8 am at a place between
Konkan and Kamjong villages, and routed the
party thoroughly.
April 15: The total number of militants killed goes up to
11 in the ongoing ‘Operation Summer
Storm’ to flush out militants from the
Loktak area. The well planned joint operation
involves the Army and Manipur police, was
launched on April 10 by the 57 Mountain Division,
police commandos and Bishnupur police at Loktak
lake, Chingmayi Pat, Nongmaikhong, Arong and
Khordak. Till last reports, the joint team
had destroyed five major camps of PREPAK at
the Loktak lake. Out of the five, four camps
were destroyed on April 12 and 13 while the
fourth one was destroyed on April 14.
April 15: Four NLFT militants surrender at Raishyabari PS.
April 16: One EVM is taken away by suspected militants from
Tadubi police station at Senapati district.
April 17: Army and Manipur police kill one militant at Loktak
lake as a part of Operation Summer Storm.
April 18: KCP(MC) militants ban private hospitals in Imphal.
April 20: The ten day long ‘Operation Summer Storm’
launched to flush out insurgenmtys from the
KeibulLamjaoNational Park
in Manipur’s LoktakLake
area comes to an end, informs Col. Rajesh
Mishra, PRO.
April 21: Troops of 31 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector under HQ
IGAR (South) located at permanent vehicle
checkpost at Khudengthabi apprehend an active
PREPAK cadre from an auto rickshaw moving
from Moreh to Imphal for checking.
April 22: Two KCP (Kokai faction) cadres are arrested by
Thoubal police.
April 23: Two UNLF militants are killed in encounter with
Assam Rifles in Chandel district.
April 23: A PREPAK cadre, N Surjit
alias Loya, 32, dies in an encounter with
securirty personnel at Shad Khoiro Ching.
April 24: Three rebels, including two suspected KCP(MC)
militants are killed in encounter with security
forces in two incidents in Imphal West and
Bishnupur district.
April 25: Two rebels are killed in encounter with security
forces in two incidents in Imphal West and
Thoubal districts.
April 25: Two UNLF rebels are killed by Assam Rifles along
the International border.
April 27: A KYKL rebel is arrested by Assam Rifles personnel
in Moreh.
April 28: One PULF and one UNLF militants are killed by
Assam Rifles in Top Chingtha and K Molnom
of Thoubal district, respectively.
April 28: A KCP activist is arrested by police from Keirao
Bitra Awaang Leikai.
April 28: Two KYKL activists are arrested by the police
from Konjeng Leikai club, Keithel.
April 28: A PREPAK cadre is arrested from Thoubal district.
April 29: A joint team of police and army gun down three
militants in an encounter at Hiyangthang in
Imphal West.
May 1: Two persons including an engineer sustain
splinter injuries in a bomb explosion at the
house of the engineer serving in the Engineering
Cell of the ManipurUniversity.
May 1: Security forces gun down three suspected militants
in three separate encounters. Two of the three
militants are killed by a combined team of
State police commandos and Assam Rifles troops
in separate incidents at Keirao Awing Leikai
in Imphal East district and at Kakching in
Thoubal district. In the third incident, cadre
of an NSCN faction is killed in Tousem sub-division
under Tamenglong district. Three civilians
and one officer of Mahar Regiment are injured
during the encounter near Khundong area.
May 1: Unidentified armed persons kill wifeof
a former KYKL militantat
Iroisemba Maning Leikai under Lamphel Police
station in Imphal West District.
May 3: A combined team of Assam Rifles arrest one
Peoples’ United Liberation Front (Azad)
cadre Md Abdul Kalam alias Kalam and three
Kangleipak Communist Party cadres.
May 3: Unidentified militants abduct and kill a former
trooper of the Naga Regiment, identified as
Bungo of T. Khullen village in Senapati District.
May 3: Suspected militants kill a Police constable
posted at the office of the Superintendent
of Police of Churachandpur District.
May 3: A combined force of the Imphal West District
Police and Assam Rifles gun down two suspected
militants identified as Gurumayum Bishe Sharma
and Mayangbam Bijoy.
May 4: The proscribed Revolutionary Peoples’
Front declares that it will stop collecting
all kinds of taxes from Manipuri traders,
transporters of goods and passengers, transport
associations, etc., based in the border town
of Moreh from this month.
May 4: Troops of Maratha Light Infantry apprehend
a cadre of Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup overground
worker Sanjay Rajkumar of Sagolband.
May 4: Troops of Assam Rifles arrest one UNLF cadre
Hidangmayum Sanatomba Sharma.
May 7: 34 Assam Rifles kills a suspected militant
in an encounter at Salungpham in Thaubal district.
May 7: Imphal West District Police gun down a suspected
PREPAK militant, Ngangbam Nanao,
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