Imphal Free Press quoting unofficial sources has reported that as many as six security forces personnel were killed and several others wounded, following an attack on an Assam Rifles camp by United National Liberation Front (UNLF) militants in Manipur's Chandel district on March 15. For its part, the UNLF claimed responsibility for the attack1.

Suspected ULFA militants shot dead four Hindi-speaking persons in Assam’s Tengakhat in Dibrugarh district on March 92. And six ULFA militants laid down arms before the Kamrup district administration in Assam on March 15.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi during his budget speech on the floor of the Assam State Assembly on March 10 hinted about the government’s plan to set up a full-fledged counter-insurgency (C-I) academy in Assam and raise a dedicated task force for counter-insurgency operations. The C-I academy, as reports indicate, would be modelled along the lines of the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte in Mizoram. The budget also proposes to set up 45 new police stations, including 19 in the char areas, raising of 24 India Reserve Battalions of Assam Police and filling up of all existing vacancies in the state police force3.

• 1. “Six security men feared killed in UNLF attack; Police confirm one dead, several hurt,” Imphal Free Press, March 16, 2008, at http://kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=41493&typeid=...
• 2. “Four shot dead,” The Hindu, March 10, 2008, at http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/10/stories/2008031056880100.htm
• 3. “Assam budget trains gun on rebels,” Telegraph, March 11, 2008, at http://telegraphindia.com/1080311/jsp/northeast/story_9005119.jsp