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2010
- February 2: A farmer,
abducted by militants from Zophai area near
Assam border in January 28, is released near
a river in Assam.
- March 8: Joseph Rothangpuia
(23), an Assam Rifles jawan is killed in an
encounter with cadres of the People’s
Liberation Army at Salungpham in Chandel district
of Manipur. He is the son of R Lungmuana,
a daily labourer at New Serchhip, about 90
kms from Mizoram, capital Aizawl.
- March 15: Two chief operatives
belonging to Lamyanba Khuman group of the
Military Council faction of the Kangleipak
Communist Party (KCP), identified as 'publicity
secretary' Laishram Manao alias Ranjit alias
Loya alias Anik alias Tongaba (36) and 'project
officer' Naorem Anand Singh (35), are arrested
by a combined team of Manipur Police and Mizoram
Police from Aizawl town.
- May 6: The BSF decides
to gear up its vigil along Mizoram’s
318 kilometres hilly and forest-infested borders
with Bangladesh to stop infiltration. BSF
Director General Raman Srivastava assured
Chief Minister Pu. Lalthanhawla in Aizawl
said that there would be more deployment of
forces along the border in Mizoram.
- May 10: Repatriation of
Bru refugees from North district in Tripura,
scheduled to be held from May 11 to 15, runs
into a deadlock. Elvis Chorky, president of
Mizoram Bru Displaced People Forum, alleges
that they received a list of 284 families
to be repatriated to Mizoram, whereas the
exact number of Bru families that fled from
the following an ethnic conflict in November
2009 stood at 800.
- May 11: The repatriation
of Bru refugees is not taking place as planned
because the Mizoram Government did not arrange
transport and security for them, a refugee
leader said.
- May 27: Around 1,200
Reang refugees return to their homes in Mizoram
for the first time in 13 years after the Union
Home Ministry asked the State government to
take back the displaced tribals, sheltered
in six Tripura camps. "About 235 families
comprising 1,200 men, women and children have
been repatriated in three batches (on Friday,
Monday and Wednesday) to Mamit district of
western Mizoram," North Tripura's Kanchanpur
divisional magistrate Dilip Chakma said.
2009
- January 9: Police arrest three suspected cadres of the Manipur-based
PREPAK outfit from a hotel in capital Aizawl.
One of them reportedly confesses to his involvement
in the killing of six persons in 1999.
- January 15: In protest against the decision to resettle
around 300 former Bru rebels in Lunglei and
Kolasib District, BLFM cadres decide not to
accept the housing assistance to be given
to them by the Mizoram Government. The outfit
wants all its cadres to be settled in the
Mamit District.
- February 21: A leader of the Lanheiba group
of Military Council faction of the KCP is
arrested by troops from his residence at capital
Aizawl. The militant is identified as Rajen
Singh alias Rajesh alias K.C. Lanheiba Meitei,
the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the
outfit.
- April 22: Members of United Democratic Liberation Army abduct
three workers from a national highway project
site in Kolasib district near Mizoram border.
The three abducted are working for a Guwahati
based construction company. The Chairman of
the outfit, Dhanayram Reang demands 10 per
cent of the Rs 88 crore sanctioned for the
road project to realese the workers. Mizoram
is on alert after the abduction.
- May 26: Aizawl police CID (special branch) arrests 11 people
(including their leader Hmingchungnung, 62)
who identified themselves as members of a
new born Hmar insurgent group named Sinlung
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) from
Zemabawk locality in Aizawl. According to
Intelligence sources, the SPLA made a declaration
in 2008 about their formation. The main objectives
of the group are to protect the indigenous
Hmar people and to fight for their homeland.
It was formed after the atrocities of Manipuri
insurgent group UNLF against Hmar people in
Tipaimukh area in Manipur. SPLA is understood
as another offspring of Hmar People’s
Convention with which the Government of Mizoram
signed an agreement in July 27, 1994. A key
player in SPLA, Hmingchungnung is a former
chairman of Sinlung Hills Development Council.
- June 21: Five traders, including
a minor, from North Tripura district are abducted
by unidentified gunmen when they were returning
to Mizoram in a lorry at Bhotalbari in Mizoram.
- July
30: A huge cache of arms, including eight
US-made M-16 Rifles and one .9 mm Beretta
pistol, is seized by a team of Mizoram Police
CID (special bureau) from a house rented by
a Myanmarese national at Saron Veng locality
in Aizawl. Besides, 14 rounds of ammunition,
a sniper telescope, 12 sets of Chinese-made
walkie talkies with 12 batteries, 12 battery
chargers and 12 antennae are recovered.
- September
24: Mizoram police arrests Dhanyaram Reang,
the chief of United Democratic Liberation
Army (UDLA) from Champui village in Kolashib
district of Mizoram on the Mizoram-Assam border.
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October 19: Manipur based Hmar People’s Convention
(Democrats0 militants extort over Rs 2 lakhs
from villages on the Mizoram-Manipur border.
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November 15: Mobs set fire to over 225 huts
of Reang tribals in Mizoram, displacing several
thousand people as tension escalated following
the gunning down of a Mizo youth. The mobs
set ablaze more than 225 houses of Reang tribals
in seven villages under Mamit and Kolashib
districts in southern Mizoram since Saturday,
displacing over 5,000 people, a Mizoram Home
Department official said. The displaced tribals
have taken shelter in adjacent south Highlakhandhi
areas of southern Assam and Jampui in northern
Tripura. Reports say that the ethnic violence
erupted after the militants shot dead an 18-year-old
Mizo youth at Bungthuam village, near the
Tripura border, in southern Mizoram on Friday.
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November 16: Seven people are arrested on
the charge of arson in villages inhabited
by Brus near Tripura border following the
killing of a Mizo youth by suspected Bru National
Army militants.
- November
17: Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D)
gives memorandum requesting the Government
of India to immediately initiate tripartite
political talks involving the Mizoram government,
the HPC(D) and the Government of India in
pursuit of the long-cherished political aspirations
of the Hmar people in Mizoram.
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December 10: Reports of attack on Brus (Reangs)
in Mizoram leads the Ministry of Home Affairs
to caution the State Government to take steps
to contain violence and restore normalcy.
Mizoram Government has been advised separately
to instil confidence among the Bru families
living in Mizoram and to persuade those families
who have fled to Tripura to return, said Minister
of State for Home Affairs, Ramachandran.
2008
- February 26: Thangcha Kipgen, ‘president’ of
the KLA is killed in a drunken brawl at a
hotel room in the Aizawl. According to a report,
around 14 cadres of seven Kuki insurgent factions
held a meeting at a tourist lodge in Aizawl
on February 24 to discuss unity among various
Kuki underground factions.
- April 5: Border Security Force personnel arrests an HNLC
cadre from Andermanik border outpost in the
Mamit district while trying to cross over
to Mizoram from Bangladesh. The man confesses
that the HNLC has maintained links with the
Tripura-based NLFT since 2001.
- April 23: Three suspected cadres of the Myanmar-based Chin
National Confederation outfit are arrested
by Assam Rifles personnel from their hideout
in the Lunglei district along the India-Myanmar
border.
- June 28: Two Assam-based Black Widow (BW) militants and
six Bru Liberation Front Mizoram (BLFM) militants
are arrested by Mizoram police when they recover
arms, including 17 AK 47 and 56 rifles, from
a truck at Buichali village, 30 kilometres
west of capital Aizawl. INR 9, 84, 000 is
also confiscated. The Superintendent of Police
of Special Branch of Aizawl district, K. Rozina,
next day says the truck was on its way to
Cachar district in Assam
from Champai district in Mizoram. Sources
said the arms were purchased at Chiang Mai,
an arms market along the Thailand-Myanmar
border. Sources add that the BW outfit is
now using a large quantity of cash, collected
in the last few months through extortion,
to buy modern weapons from different places.
The militant group is currently reported to
be in Kathmandu to explore the possibility
of buying arms from Nepal
to south Assam.
"We have held back our operation against
the DHD (J) as it had given us indications
about further extending the truce. The government
is looking into the nitty-gritty of responding
to its ceasefire offer. But the haul has forced
us to take a fresh look at the situation,"
a source in the home department says.
- July 5: Excise officials at a checkgate at Vairangte intercept
a Silchar-bound vehicle and recover seven
AK-47 rifles and a rocket launcher with one
shell. Officials believe that the arms consignment
was meant for the Black Widow outfit in Assam.
However, no one was arrested as the driver
of the vehicle managed to escape.
- September 2: Suspected militants ambush a vehicle killing
four police personnel, including an officer
of Mizoram’s first battalion of India
Reserve Police, at Saipum village in the Kolasib
district along the border with Assam. Three other police
personnel are injured. Police suspect the
involvement of the HPC-D.
- September 19: One gelatin bomb explodes inside the office
of State Bank of India
in capital Aizawl. No casualty.
- September 24: One former Mizo National Front (MNF) leader
says in Aizawl that five groups in Mizoram,
all offsprings of the erstwhile militant outfit,
have regrouped to counter any activities of
militant groups from across the border.
- October 6: Kishore Rongya Chakma, a school headmaster abducted
by six suspected militants from his residence
in Mizoram on October 4 evening, is rescued
near the Bangladesh border. An
intelligence source says that the Bangladesh-based
United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF)
rescued the hostage and captured two of the
abductors inside Bangladesh and later
handed them over to the Mizoram police.
(Major incidents of Mizoram from 1995-2007: Courtesy-
satp.org)
2007
- January 2: Mizoram Government initiates negotiations with
the Hmar People's Convention- Democracy (HPC-D).
The Government is to send representatives
to the outfit, which operates in Mizoram,
Manipur and Assam's
Cachar and North Cachar Hills districts, to
evaluate its demands.
- January 5: Mizoram Chief Minister, Zoramthanga, delegates
Charlton Lien Amo, a legislator from Manipur,
as the representative to negotiate with the
HPC-D. Amo, belonging to the Hmar community,
was elected from Tipaimukh Assembly constituency
in Manipur twice.
- January 11: The HPC-D asks for involvement of the Union
Government in peace talks between the outfit
and the Mizoram Government. "If there
is any negotiation to discuss the fulfillment
of the provisions of the 1994 accord signed
between the Mizoram government and the HPC,
the Centre must intervene," a note by
the outfit said.
- March 5: The dead bodies of six Hmar National Army (HNA)
militants are recovered from an unspecified
place along Mizoram-Manipur border. They are
suspected to have been shot dead by the HPC-D
militants. Nine rounds of AK- 47 ammunition
are also recovered from the incident site.
- September 7: The ‘information secretary’ of
the HPC-D, Lalrawngbawla Pulamte, surrenders
before the Mizoram government. He was reportedly
brought by police personnel from Silchar in
the Cachar district of Assam to capital Aizawl
in Mizoram.
- October 1: Three bombs exploded at different places in the
capital Aizawl. The first blast occurred near
a building at Bawngkawn locality while the
second blast occurred near a cement and iron
rod shop in the Tuikual locality. The third
explosion occurred near a grocery shop at
Dawrpui locality. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported.
2006
- January 6: The general secretary of the Former Undergrounds
Welfare Association, V Laichhinga, says, "We
had submitted a memorandum to the President
of India in September last
year to constitute a three-member border commission.
We had also urged the Mizoram Chief Minister
to initiate a CM-level talk with Assam
on the border dispute, but no action has been
taken till today." He adds that three
recent incidents of victimization of the Mizos
were caused by the State Government's negligence
in looking into the border issue.
- January 11: The Mizoram Armed Police outpost is attacked
by the Bru Liberation Front of Mizoram (BLFM)
cadres at New Kawnpui in the Mamit district.
- January 17: BLFM serves an extortion demand of Rupees 50,000
on Bungthuam
High School
headmaster Lalfelkima. The Mizo Zirlai Pawl
(Mizo Students Union) of Bungthuam village,
reacting to the incident, has issued a statement
threatening the Bru tribals in general and
the militants in particular.
- January 29: Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil, announces
at Aizawl a relief package of Rupees 28.65
crore for Bru refugees of Mizoram currently
living in Tripura. The State Government has
reportedly envisioned an amount of Rupees
77 crore for repatriation of both Bru refugees
and Bru militants who have taken up arms against
the State Government.
- February 6: One BLFM cadre is injured in an encounter with
the Mizoram Police near Sihthiang hamlet in
the Mizoram-Tripura border district of Mamit.
- February 12: The dead body of a civilian, suspected to have
been killed by unidentified militants, is
recovered from the western outskirts of Aizawl,
capital of Mizoram.
- February 14: Suspected BNLF cadres abduct a sub-contractor
in the Kolasib district.
- March 2: An unidentified Bru militant, while trying to extort
money from the civilians, is shot at and wounded
by police personnel near Thaiudawr village
in the Mamit district. A country-made rifle
is recovered from his possession.
- March 7: A high level team of Ministry of Home Affairs visited
the relief camps in Mizoram to take stock
of the ground reality of the large-scale exodus
of Hmar villagers from the Churachandpur district
in Manipur. Refugees belonging to the Hmar
community were reportedly displaced by the
UNLF.
- March 9: Mizoram Legislative Assembly unanimously adopts
an official resolution urging the Union Government
to constitute a boundary commission to resolve
the boundary dispute of Mizoram with neighbouring
States.
- March 10: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga asks for a
solution to the boundary dispute between Mizoram
and Assam
at the Constitutional rather than at the State
(provincial) level.
- March 14: Mizoram Home Minister Tawnluia expresses concern
over the infiltration of at least 25,000 Myanmarese
into the State.
- March 15: A powerful bomb is exploded by unidentified militants
near the office of the Director of Land Revenue
and Settlement at Aizawl damaging window-panes
and other structures. However, no casualty
is reported.
- March 16: Mizoram Government sends a police team to bring
the 38 BLFM militants who have surrendered
to the Assam Rifles authorities in Tripura
on March 15.
- March 17: Police personnel kill a hardcore militant of the
BNLF, Jaingba Reang, during an encounter at
Dhalaicherra in the Mizoram-Tripura border
area.
- March 21: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga while expressing
concern over the increasing criminal activities
along the State’s porous border with
Myanmar
and Bangladesh,
urges the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil
at a meeting in New Delhi to
take effective steps to curb the cross-border
crimes. He also mentions the presence of Myanmarese
insurgents and the frequent influx of illegal
migrants from that country.
- March 27: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, while meeting
the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in New Delhi, says that the process
of repatriation of the Brus, who have come
from Mizoram to Tripura in 1997, will begin
only after the Bru militants lay down arms
and eschew violence.
- March 29: Mizoram Home Minister, Tawnluia, speaking in the
Legislative Assembly, reportedly claimed that
the Assam Rifles battalion posted in North
Tripura is helping the BLFM militants.
- April 5: The Mizoram Government informs the Union Government
that it will initiate repatriation of Bru
tribal refugees as promised only after the
BLFM lays down arms and eschews violence.
The State Government said that the BLFM has
unleashed an extortion spree in Mizoram and
recently, it has demanded an amount of Rupees
5 lakh from Tantia Construction, a Kolkata-based
firm.
- April 18: Mizoram Tourism Minister Z.H. Ropuia urges the
Union Government to relax the Restricted Area
Permit in the State.
- April 22: A joint team of the Mizoram Police and Assam Rifles
arrested four top leaders of the BLFM, including
its ‘president’ Vanlalliana, ‘vice-president’
Vanrama, ‘army chief’ Romawia
Meska and ‘lieutenant’ Lallawma,
from different places of the State recently.
The outfit, according to the Mizoram Police
sources, has approximately 200 cadres.
- May 22: Telegraph reports that the BLFM is preparing to
surrender en masse on the condition that its
arrested leaders are treated as ‘surrendered
insurgents’. A circular circulated by
the outfit states that two former BLFM cadres,
A. Toisarai and Lalrinkima Molsoi, are recruiting
“members” solely for the purpose
of making them surrender before the Mizoram
Government to get the benefits of rehabilitation
package. “Already, 100 people have been
recruited and they have been asked to pay
rupees 3,000 each for their recruitment, apart
from an entry fee of rupees 200. These two
people have been promising their recruits
rupees 90,000 as the rehabilitation package
that would be provided by the Mizoram government,”
the circular said.
- June 30: Shillong Times quoting the Aizawl Peace Accord
MNF Returnees Association reports that six
former Mizo National Front (MNF) cadres have
gone underground again and are ensconced at
a former tactical headquarters of the MNF
in Bangladesh.
- August 9: Telegraph quoting Assam Police sources reports
that the BLFM, a breakaway faction of the
BNLF, has forged close ties with the Manipur
based Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA). The alliance
struck between the two militant outfits envisages
supply of arms by the ZRA to the BLFM. It
also involves mutual co-operation in carrying
out guerrilla raids in their respective strongholds.
- November 4: The Tripura Director General of Police, G. M.
Srivastava, accuses the Mizoram Government
and the Assam Rifles of stage managing the
October 23-surrender of at least 809 BLFM
militants at Kanchanpur area in the North
Tripura district. He further said
that the BLFM never had such large cadre strength
and never had more than 20 or 24 weapons.
He also said surrendered militants in disguise
were actually inhabitants of refugee camps.
- While expressing concern over the increasing militant violence
in northeast, Srivastava says that the headquarters
of militancy in the region has shifted from
Shillong in Meghalaya to Aizawl in Mizoram.
- November 16: Two civil society organizations, the Central
Young Mizo Association and Mizo Zirlai Pawl
(MZP), pass a resolution stating that unless
the identity of the BLFM cadres are verified,
they will not be accepted as bonafide inhabitants
of Mizoram. The MZP said that these could
be people trying to infiltrate into the State
in the guise of Bru insurgents. Reports added
that both the organisations had opposed the
rehabilitation of Brus who fled from Mizoram
to Tripura in 1997 and 1998.
- November 25: A cadre of the Myanmar-based outfit, Khumi
Patriotic Army, is arrested from the Lawngtlai
district along the India-Myanmar border along
with some arms, ammunition and incriminating
documents.
- December 4: A local court in Aizawl held that the Mizoram
Government had paid a ransom of INR 60 lakh
to Hmar militants for the release of North
Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO)
workers during its previous tenure. The Additional
District Magistrate of Aizawl, K. L. Liana,
while settling a case between the State Government
and R. Lalzirliana, a serving legislator of
the Congress party, passed the judgment. Lalzirliana
had alleged that the State Government had
paid huge amounts of ransom for the release
of NEEPCO workers, who had been abducted by
members of the Hmar People's Conference in
2002. Following the allegation, Mizo National
Front party leader and a minister, R. Tlanghmingthanga,
had filed a defamation case on behalf of the
Mizoram Government. According to Lalzirliana's
counsel, the State Government had paid a ransom
of INR 60 lakh to militants on three occasions
through a local man identified as one Saikapa.
2005
- January 7: Seven Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
(HNLC) terrorists surrender before the Border
Security Force (BSF) authorities in Mamit
district.
- March 7: The 12th round of peace talks between representatives
of the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF)
and the Government of Mizoram begins in the
capital Aizawl.
- March 11: Negotiations between the Mizoram Government and
BNLF conclude with the finalisation of a draft
agreement for the repatriation of the Bru
refugees to be signed in April.
- March 29: In an interview to Sentinel, the BNLF Chief, Surjyamani
Reang, says "We are ready to sign the
accord (with the Mizoram Government on April
6), but need definite assurances on crucial
points to pave the way for surrender of arms
and ammunition by the rank and file of our
outfit."
- March 29: The Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the apex student organisation
in Mizoram, demands an apology from the Bru
refugees before they are repatriated by the
Mizoram Government.
- April 3: The MZP announces a boycott of the negotiation
process between the BNLF and the Mizoram Government
in protest against the outfit’s kidnapping
a student.
- April 6: The 13th round of talks between the Mizoram Government
and BNLF is postponed to an unspecified date.
- April 26: The Mizoram Government and BNLF sign a Memorandum
of Understanding at Aizawl.
- May 17: Utpal Deb Barma, ‘intelligence coordinator’
of the NLFT, is arrested by the Mizoram Police
from Vairangte.
- May 21: A Bangladeshi national, identified as Lalmuankima,
is arrested from Phuldungsei along the international
border with Bangladesh
along with a Chinese manufactured SAR rifle,
339 rounds of ammunition, 100 rounds of US carbine ammunition
and three 40 mm high explosive shells.
- June 8: Mizoram police arrests 12 cadres of the Chin National
Confederation, including the outfit’s
vice-president Fungkung and treasurer Vanling,
from the State capital Aizawl.
- June 24: Mizoram Police conducts ‘Operation Hailstorm’
against the Mynamarese rebel outfit, the Chin
National Front, in the southern parts of the
State and recovers some arms and ammunition.
- July 18: The Bru Liberation Front of Mizoram (BLFM) demands
separate talks with the Mizoram Government
and threatens not to surrender arms.
- July 25: 195 BNLF militants, including the outfit's president
Surjya Moni Reang and general secretary Solomon
Prophul Ushoy, surrender before the Mizoram
Home Minister Tawnluia at the Sidan transit
camp in West Tuipuibari.
- July 31: Police personnel recover four firearms and several
rounds of ammunition, believed to have been
stockpiled by the Chin Integration Army (CIA)
from Vaphai village on the Mizoram-Myanmar
broder.
- August 8: Bru Liberation Front of Mizoram (BLFM) abducts
an engineer, Charanjeet Singh, and a labourer,
Zoramsanga, from the Teirei hydel project
in the Mamit district.
- August 21: Mizoram Government rejects the demand of a ransom
amount of Rupees Two crore by the BLFM militants
for the release of an abducted engineer and
a labourer.
- August 23: Solomon Prophul Ushoy, 'general secretary' of
the BNLF, claims that Bru tribals at refugee
camps in Tripura, who are awaiting repatriation
to Mizoram, are receiving extortion threats
from the BLFM.
- August 24: Chief Minister Zoramthanga indicates the possibility
of a crackdown on the Chin National Army and
other illegal settlers in the State. He said
in an interview with the UNI: "Our government
has already started identifying illegal foreign
settlers in Mizoram and would be deporting
them as soon as possible."
- October 20: The BLFM releases two abducted persons, Engineer
Charanjeet Singh and labourer Zoramsanga,
after keeping them captive for more than two
months.
- November 4: HPC-D serves extortion notes on several persons
in the Vairangte village demanding a portion
of their salaries.
- November 12: An unspecified number of grenades and ammunition
and Myanmar
currency worth 1,31,000 kyat is seized from
Tlangsam village in the Champhai district.
- December 15: Arms and explosives, including five China-made
SAR rifles, 300 M-16 rounds, one AK-47 magazine
and 50 GTC 40 mm bombs, are recovered from
the border village of Zokhawthar
in the Champhai district.
2004
- January 3: Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF)
in a release appeals to the State and Union
Governments to undertake immediate measures
for the resolution of the Bru issue.
- January 16: Suspected Manipur’s United National Liberation
Front (UNLF) terrorists numbering about 20
attack police outpost at Vaitin on the Mizoram-Manipur
border with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket
launchers.
- January 28: A six-member delegation of the Tripura-based
terrorist outfit BNLF led by its president
Surjomoni Reang arrives to hold the tenth
round of talks with the Mizoram Government.
- January 30: Suspected Bru Liberation Front of Mizoram (BLFM)
abducts a Bru youth, son of a village council
president, from the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura
border hamlet of Tuipuibari.
- February 26: 16 top Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
(HNLC) terrorists surrender before the Border
Security Force (BSF) in Mizoram after escaping
from their camp in Borsurai in Bangladesh
bordering Mizoram and Tripura in Bangladesh.
- March 5: Six BNLF cadres, including a ‘sergeant’
and a ‘corporal’, surrender before
the Mizoram Police at Tuipuibari in the Mamit
district along with a pistol, 16 rounds of
ammunition, a .303 rifle and a Chinese hand
grenade.
- March 8: The Young Mizo Association (YMA) serves a notice
to non-Mizos staying in Mizoram without proper
authorization with an ultimatum to leave the
State by April 7.
- April 27: The three major Opposition party combine led by
the Congress urge the Mizoram Government to
postpone its proposed talks with the BNLF.
- April 29: The 12th round of talks between the Mizoram Government
and BNLF is to be held in the State capital
Aizawl. A five-member BNLF delegation led
by the outfit’s chief Surjomoni Reang
will meet representatives of the State, including
the Home Secretary, where crucial issues of
repatriation of refugees from the six North
Tripura camps, special development projects
as well as modalities for surrender would
be taken up for discussion.
- April 29: The opposition political parties’ call for
a 12-hour general strike in protest against
the BNLF’s alleged forcible collection
of postal ballot papers issued to Bru voters
in the Tripura refugee camps.
- April 29: The Mizoram Government postpones the 12th round
of talks with the BNLF slated for April 29,
due to ‘unhealthy political atmosphere’
prevailing in the State.
- April 30: 11 Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
cadres surrender at a Border Security Force
(BSF) camp in Mizoram, bordering Bangladesh,
after fleeing the main training camp of the
outfit located at Chittagong Hill Tracts in
Bangladesh.
- May 17: Home Minister Twanluia informs the State Legislative
Assembly that an accord between the Mizoram
Government and BNLF is to be signed in June.
- May 20: Five HNLC cadres surrender at a BSF camp near the
India-Bangladesh border after reportedly fleeing
from the outfit’s camps in the Chittagong
Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
- May 26: State Chief Secretary H. V. Lalringa informs that
the Mizoram Government has endorsed the draft
proposals for laying down of arms by the BNLF
cadres and repatriation of Brus lodged in
the Tripura relief camps.
- July 1: The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA), armed wing of
the Zomi Revolutionary Organisation (ZRO),
in a statement issued by its ‘commandant
201 battalion’ T. Romeo denies involvement
of its cadres in extortion in Champhai town
near the Myanmar border.
- July 8: Speaking in the State Legislative Assembly, Mizoram
Home Minister Tawnluia says that 29 insurgents
belonging to the National Socialist Council
of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM), National
Democratic Front of Burma-North East (NDFB-NE),
HNLC and ZRA have been arrested in the State
between January 2002 and June 2004. Recovery
of nine weapons and 776 rounds of ammunition
have also been made during the period.
- July 25: A group of 15 ZRA cadres abduct eleven youths from
Leisenzo village in the Champhai district.
- July 27: Police arrests a ZRA cadre, Thangtinlian, from
Leisenzo village in Champhai district along
the Mizoram-Myanmar border.
- August 1: Police arrests three ZRA militants, suspected
to be part of the group that abducted 11 villagers
from Leisenzo village on July 27.
- September 8: Police arrests 11 militants belonging Zo-Lushai
Liberation Army, including its chief Chalthanzuala,
son of the first Chief Minister Ch. Chhunga,
from the capital town of Aizawl and other
places.
- October 24: Following the eleventh round of peace talks
last week, the Government of Mizoram finalizes
a formula for a peace deal with BNLF. According
to reports, a formal peace agreement would
be signed by both the parties once the Union
government sanctions the funds required to
implement the peace package.
- November 28: Chief Minister Zoramthanga claims that the
protracted peace talks between his government
and the BNLF had reached a "decisive
stage" with the group giving up its demand
for an autonomous council to administer the
Bru-inhabited areas of the state. He further
says that the State government would require
at least Rupees 30 crore to properly implement
the rehabilitation package promised to the
tribal community.
2002
- February 28: Fourth round of talks start in Aizwal between
the Mizoram government and Bru National Liberation
Front (BNLF) to resolve the Reang refugees'
issue.
- March 1: BNLF-Mizoram government talks end inconclusively.
- March 27: Three
Union
Territory Demand Army (UTDA)
terrorists surrender to the Saiha district
police chief.
- May 23: Fifth round of talks held in Aizwal between the
Mizoram government and BNLF remains inconclusive.
- August 23: Mizoram government and BNLF discuss various issues
related to the Reang community at the sixth
round of talks in Aizwal. BNLF conveys its
intention to settle for an Area Development
Council.
- October 10: Report says two police officers have been suspended
in Sakawrdai, Aizawl, for their alleged links
with Hmar People’s Convention-Democrats
(HPC-D) terrorists.
- October 17: Seventh round of BNLF-Mizoram government talks
in Aizawl remains inconclusive.
- November 14: Chief Minister Zoramthanga offers to help bring
terrorist outfits in the Northeast, including
the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),
to the negotiating table.
- November 30: Chief Minister Zoramthanga says the Union government
has asked him to initiate thepeace process
with the Northeast-based terrorist outfits.
2001
- February 16: State Home Minister Tawnluia asks Bru National
Liberation Front (BNLF) terrorists to surrender
before taking up any repatriation of Bru refugees
from the six camps in Tripura.
- April 6: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga discloses to
media persons that, on the request of Manik
Sarkar, his Tripura counterpart, he held talks
with National Liberation Front of Tripura
(NLFT) terrorist leaders in Aizawl. The talks
reportedly remained inconclusive.
- April 11: Manipur's Hmar People's Convention -Democrats
(HPC-D) terrorists abduct seven civilians
near the river Tuivai on the Mizoram-Manipur
border. Three are released subsequently.
- April 23: Terrorists of the HPC-D say the April 11 abductions
were meant to "pressurise the State Government
on their demand for a separate autonomous
district council inside Mizoram".
- June 5: Police arrest four Myanmarese nationals living in
Aizwal, including a woman and a former Chin
National Army (CNA) terrorist, at Sihphir
village, and also seize grenades, arms and
sophisticated ammunition, estimated to be
worth about Rs. 4 lakh.
- June 24: The remaining four persons of the original seven
taken captive on April 11 are released. Three
have already been set free.
- July 15: Mizoram government clarifies that any talks with
the BNLF would be bilateral. The talks’
proposal breaks down as the outfit insists
that a senior Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau
official should be present at the talks.
- August 9: Media reports indicate 161 cadres of the Bru National
Steering Commitee (BNSC) were imparted arms
training at the Naisingpara refugee camp in
North Tripura
district. The report also suggests that, after
training, they might join the BNLF.
- August 12: Rev. Liandawla, Mizoram government emissary,
expresses optimism that the BNLF can be brought
to the negotiating table.
- August 25: Assam Rifles raids a
CNA hideout in Zawngling area, southern Mizoram.
- August 30: The Joint action committee of ex-Mizo National
Army Association (MNA), an organisation of
former Mizo insurgents, sends a memorandum
to Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee demanding
review of the 1986 Mizo Accord.
- September 6: BNLF submits charter of demands to Mizoram
government. This includes creation of a separate
autonomous district council for the Brus comprising
the non-western belt of the State, reservation
of five seats for Bru community in the State
Legislative Assembly and immediate repatriation
of Bru refugees, among others.
- September 24: Four National Socialist Council of Nagaland––Isak-Muivah
(NSCN-IM) terrorists coming to Mizoram from
Bangladesh
are killed allegedly by their fellow cadres.
- Five other NSCN-IM terrorists surrender to Border Security
Force (BSF) personnel near Pharva village,
in southern Mizoram. An AK-56 assault rifle,
a Russian Dragunov sniper rifle, a .303 rifle,
64 Chinese grenades and approximately 600
rounds of ammunition are handed over by the
surrendering terrorists.
- October 16: An HPC-D terrorist surrenders on the Mizoram-Manipur
border, in Zohmun locality. He hands over
a US-made M-16 rifle, six magazines and 61
rounds of ammunition.
- October 19: Eight HPC-D terrorists surrender to the police.
Police sources say four terrorists surrendered
at Khawlian hamlet, three others at Sakawrdai
village and another in Aizwal.
- November 23: Second round of negotiations held in Aizwal
between the Mizoram government and the BNLF.
- December 17: Mizoram Armed Police (MAP) and United National
Liberation Front (UNLF) terrorists exchange
fire at Vaitin village near Aizwal. No injuries
or casualties are reported.
2000
- March 31: Suspected HPC-D terrorists abduct six North Eastern
Electric Power Cooperation (NEEPCO) employees
from the project-site of the 60-MW Tuirial
Hydel Power project on the Mizoram-Assam border.
- April 15: Suspected BNLF terrorists abduct two government
employees and torch a State transport corporation
bus near Saithah, close to Aizawl, Mizoram.
- June 7: 16 armed terrorists of Manipur's Hmar Revolutionary
Force (HRF) formally surrender to the State
Home Minister.
- June 14: NEEPCO employees, abducted on March 31 by HRF-D
terrorists, are set free unconditionally.
1998
- April: According to media reports, (on an unspecified date)
a new outfit called as either the Mizoram
Accord Implementation Demand Action (MAIDA)
or the Mizoram Accord Implementation Demand
Force (MAIDF) has been founded. Details of
the organisation are not known.
1994
- July 27: Peace accord between the Mizoram government and
the Manipur-based Hmar People’s Convention
(HPC) is signed. Sinlung Hill Development
Council (SHDC) also formed under the agreement
with Hmingchungnunga as its chairman.
- October 27: 308 HPC terrorists surrender to the State government
along with arms.
1993
- December 5: Congress-I wins 16 seats while its ally, the
erstwhile Mizo Janata Dal led by Brig Sailo,
bags eight in the Mizoram Legislative Assembly
elections. MNF finishes second with 14 seats.
1989
- January 21: Elections are held to the Mizoram Legislative
Assembly.
- January 24: Congress wins a majority in Mizoram securing
23 of the 40 seats. Lal Thanhawla sworn in
Chief Minister.
1988
- August 30: MNF splits and is reduced to a minority in the
State Legislative Assembly.
- September 7: President's Rule declared in Mizoram.
1987
- February 16: Elections to the first Mizoram State Legislative
Assembly are held.
- February 19: MNF wins 24 out of the 40 seats in the State
Legislative Assembly.
- February 20: Mizoram formally founded as a State. Hiteshwar
Saikia is appointed Governor of the new State.
1986
- June 26: Mizo National Front chief Laldenga formally renounces
terrorism.
- June 30: Mizo Accord signed between Union government and
MNF. The document is signed by Laldenga, on
behalf of the MNF, and Union Home Secretary
RD Pradhan, on behalf of the Government of
India. Mizoram Chief Secretary Lalkhama, too,
signs the agreement.
- July: Approximately 614 MNF cadres come over-ground at Parva
and Marpara. Weapons, including Light Machine
Guns, are handed over to the authorities.
- August 5: Constitution Amendment Bill to confer Statehood
on Mizoram is passed in the Lok Sabha, India’s Lower House
of Parliament.
- August 20: Ban on Mizo National Front is lifted.
- August 21: Laldenga sworn in Chief Minister of Mizoram.
- Lal Thanhawla steps down to make way for an MNF-Congress
coalition government.
- August 25: Chief Minister Laldenga announces general amnesty
for all MNF cadres who came over-ground.
1985
- February 15: Laldenga meets Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Talks remain inconclusive.
- March 5: Mizoram declared disturbed area for the next six
months under the Assam Disturbed Areas Act,
1955.
- September 5: Mizoram is declared a disturbed area for another
six months.
- Talks resume between Laldenga and Rajiv Gandhi.
1984
- Operations against MNF are suspended.
- January 23: Mizo National Front, Mizo National Army declared
unlawful, once again.
- March 23: Three MNF members die in an encounter with security
forces (SF) in southern Mizoram.
- April 25: Approximately 150 MNF cadres from various places
are arrested ahead of the State Legislative
Assembly elections.
- Two SF personnel are reported killed at an unnamed place
in the State.
- April 29: Indian National Congress wins 20 of the 30 seats
in the Legislative Assembly elections.
- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares her intention to negotiate
with the MNF.
- May 5: Lal Thanhawla, Indian National Congress leader, becomes
Chief Minister.
- September 6: The Union Territory of Mizoram is declared
a disturbed area for the next six months.
- October 29: Laldenga returns to New
Delhi from London
to hold talks with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
- October 30: Indira Gandhi is assassinated. Talks with Laldenga
do not resume.
- November 23: Formal talks are held between MNF and the new
caretaker Union government led by Rajiv Gandhi.
- December 20: Talks are held between MNF and Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi held.
- December 31: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi leads the Indian
National Congress to victory in the Parliamentary
elections.
1982
- January 20: MNF and MNA are banned under Unlawful Activities
Act. Laldenga is asked to leave the country.
- Restrictions on movement and dusk-to-dawn curfews are renewed
in the State.
- April 21: Laldenga leaves for London.
1980
- April 4: Laldenga holds talks with Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi. All charges against him are dropped.
Laldenga also orders an MNF ceasefire and
publicly disavows terrorism.
- June 30: Laldenga is released from prison. Charges against
him are also withdrawn.
- Government suspends counter-terrorism operations in Mizoram.
1979
- May 8: Brigadier Sailo becomes Chief Minister of Mizoram
for the second time after mid-term elections
to the Legislative Assembly are held.
- July 8: Laldenga is arrested. Subsequently, Biakchhunga
and his followers also return to India and surrender arms.
1978
- March: MNF's informal talks with the government are discontinued
as Laldenga refuses to give up the demand
for an interim government to be headed by
him and his 'party'. Laldenga continues to
stay on in Delhi.
On the other hand, he allegedly asks the MNA
to step-up subversive activities against India.
- MNA asks non-Mizos employed in Mizoram to leave area by
July 1979.
- May: People’s Conference Party led by Sailo wins elections
in Mizoram and forms government.
- June: Sailo allegedly helps cause a split in the MNF. Laldenga
ousted as MNF President and is replaced by
Biakchhunga.
1977
- May 9: Chhunga Ministry in the State resigns at the end
of its five-year term.
- May 18: Union government resumes talks to find ways to implement
the July 1976 'accord'. The talks fail and
Laldenga is asked to leave the country by
June 6, 1977.
- June 9: A group of 62 MNF and MNA cadres led by Sawmvela,
ex-MNA 'chief', surrender arms to Lieutenant
Governor S. K. Chibber. They also declare
that it is 'immoral' to continue terrorism
after the New
Delhi accord of July
1976.
- Union government asks Laldenga to leave the country by November
21. He, however, manages to stay on in Delhi and pursues further dialogue
with Home Minister Charan Singh through informal
channels.
- May-December: President's rule.
1976
- January: At a secret meeting with Indian authorities, an
MNF delegation led by Laldenga agrees, among
other things, to lay down arms and to seek
resolution of all existing problems within
the framework of the Indian Constitution.
- January 24: Laldenga arrives in New Delhi.
- February 11-18: MNF delegation led by Laldenga and comprising
of Tlangchhuaka, Chawngzuala and Biakchhunga
holds discussions with Union Home Secretary
S.L. Khurana, Lieutenant Governor S.K. Chibber,
and Joint Secretary (North East) M.L. Kampani.
The MNF delegation, among other things, acknowledges
that Mizoram is an integral part of India.
- July: Union government and MNF issue a Joint communiqué
based on the January 1976-secret talks.
- People's Conference leader Brig Sailo is under the Maintenance
of Internal Security Act (MISA).
1975
- January 13: MNA 'Captain' Lalhleia and three other MNA cadres
kill Inspector General of Police G. S. Ayra,
Deputy Inspector General of Police L. B. Sewa
and Superintendent of Police Panchapagesan
while they are in a meeting at the police
headquarters in Aizawl. The assailants escape
from the incident-site.
- April 23: 'Colonel' Biakvela leads another group of 20 MNA
cadres to the Kachin area of Burma
( Myanmar)
on their way to China.
- June 30: Approximately 27 MNA cadres of the China
team that had visited there under 'Major'
Demokhseik Gangte in December 1973 surrender
to the Indian army in Imphal after the Burmese
Army killed two of their men in an encounter.
- November: Differences surface between Laldenga on the one
hand and MNF 'vice president' Tlangchhuaka,
MNA 'chief' Biakchhunga and MNF 'president'
K. Chawngzuala, on the other, in Cologne,
Germany, over the matter of talks with the
Union government. The meet decides Laldenga
would seek the mandate of an MNF convention
in Arakan.
1972-74
- Led by Lalhleia, a band of MNF cadres indulge in large-scale
abductions, extortion, assassinations, murders,
looting, arson, sniping and laying ambushes.
1974
- January 10: MNF cadres lay an ambush on the convoy of Lieutenant
Governor S. P. Mukerjee, who survives bullet
injuries.
- Mizo Union Party merges with Indian National Congress.
- April 17: Brigadier Sailo founds a political party known
as People's Conference.
- April: The MNA group under 'Major' Demokhseik Gangte that
had visited Yunnan in December 1973 starts
its return journey after staying their for
approximately three and half months.
- August 20: Laldenga, on a passport issued by Pakistan in the name of Peter Lee,
flies to Geneva
to meet an (unnamed) Indian official. In a
letter addressed to Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, he confirms willingness to return
to India
for talks.
1973
- Dusk-to-dawn curfew continuing for the past 13 years is
lifted in the State; movement-by-permit system
is also abolished.
- November: Laldenga sends his aides, Zoramthanga and Zal
Sangliana, to contact the Indian mission at
Kabul.
- December 28: MNA cadres led by 'Major' Demokhseik Gangte
that started its journey in November 1972
enter Yunnan
(Tinsum county) in China
and stay there for three months and 10 days.
1972
- January 21: The Union Territory of Mizoram comes into being.
- February: Laldenga appoints Biakchhunga as MNF chief.
- April 18: Mizo Union Party forms the first government in
Mizoram after elections are held to the 30-member
Mizoram Union Territory (UT) Legislature.
The party wins 21 seats.
- May 13: Lawrence
C. Chhunga becomes the first Chief Minister
of Mizoram.
- November: 'Major' Demokhseik Gangte leads a group of MNF
cadres from Arakan Hills in Myanmar
to China.
While passing through Kachin area in Myanmar they are first
intercepted by the Kachin Independent Army
(KIA), but subsequently guided to the Chinese
border. KIA asks the group to give them half
the arms and ammunition they would receive
from China.
- 500 MNF cadres surrender.
1972-1973
- Laldenga stays in Karachi,
Pakistan.
1971
- February: Laldenga sends emissaries to explore the possibility
of a negotiated settlement with the Government
of India.
- August: Union government offers general amnesty and economic
help such as a rehabilitation package to surrendering
MNF cadres.
- December: MNF 'foreign secretary' Lalhmingthanga, 'finance
minister' Lalkhawliana and 'education secretary'
Thangkima and 14 other top-ranking MNF cadres
surrender to the Indian authorities.
1970
- Rifts surfaces within the MNF. Laldenga and S. Lianzuala
lead the hard-liners, while MNF 'vice president'
C. Lalnunmawia, C. Lalkhawliana, Thankima
and R. Zamawia, among others, lead the 'moderates'.
- March: Laldenga removes Lalnunmawia from the post of MNF
'vice president'.
- Lianzuala appointed new MNF ‘vice president’.
- 'Amy chief' Sawmvela is replaced by MNF 'defence minister'
Zamawia.
- November (to February 1971): Laldenga visits China
along with 'foreign minister' Lalhmingthanga.
The Chinese reportedly assure him of continued
help, training facilities and supply of arms.
1969-70
- Army carries out counter-terrorism operations against the
MNF.
1969
- Laldenga sends his emissary, Vanlalngaia, to assess the
climate for negotiations with the Union government.
- March: Church leaders write to B. C. Cariappa, the Commissioner
of Cachar and Mizo Hills Division and the
Union government’s Liaison Officer,
conveying MNF 'finance minister’ Lalkhawliana's
intention of a peaceful settlement of the
Mizo issue.
1967-69
- Regrouping of hill population in ‘protected and progressive
villages’ is adopted to supplement counter-terrorism
measures.
1967
- The Mizo National Front is outlawed.
- April: Security forces (SFs) arrest MNF 'Home Minister'Sainghaka.
1966
- MNF leads the terror campaign.
- February 28: Government installations in Aizawl, Lunglei,
Chawngte, Chhimluang and other places are
attacked simultaneously by the Mizo National
Army, the armed wing of the MNF.
- November: Mizo church leaders hold secret meetings with
Laldenga at Sabual village; they criticise
the MNF for issuing threats to innocent Mizo
population.
1961
- October 22: Mizo National Front (MNF) formed under Laldenga's
leadership. The MNF proclaims as its objective
the achieving of a sovereign, independent
'Greater Mizoram'.
1960
- March: Mizo Cultural Society changes its name to 'Mautam
Front'
- September: Mizo Cultural Society adopts the name Mizo National
Famine Front (MNFF).
1959
- Mizo Hills devastated by a great famine called by Mizos
as the 'Mautam Famine'.
- Mizo Famine Front is formed.
1955
- Mizo Cultural Society is formed with Pu Laldenga as its
Secretary.
1952
- Following suggestions made by the Gopinath Bordoloi sub-Committee
- Lushai Hills Autonomous District Council comes into existence.
Chieftanship is abolished in Mizoram.
1935
- Tribal districts of Assam, including Lushai
Hills, are declared as Excluded Area.
1919
- Lushai Hills declared Backward Tract under government of
India Act.
1898
- North and south Mizo hills are merged to form Lushai Hills
district with Aizawl as headquarters.
1895
- Mizo Hills are formally declared part of British India through a proclamation.
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