Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh

Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh
Part of Insurgency in Northeast India
Arunachal Pradesh
Date 1954 – Present (70 years) Location Arunachal Pradesh Status Ongoing (low level insurgency) Most of the insurgent groups dissolved or defunct.
Government-Insurgents
India Assam Rifles Arunachal Pradesh Police CRPF Indian Armed Forces Minister of Home Affairs Ministry of External Affairs Supported by:  Myanmar  Bhutan	Separatist groups: NSCN ULFA NLCT (Inactive) USCA (Inactive) TDS (Inactive) NLFA (Inactive) TKLF (Inactive) TSSF (Inactive) ADF (Inactive) APDPF (Inactive) ANLF (Inactive)
Commanders and leaders
Droupadi Murmu (President) Narendra Modi (Prime Minister) Amit Shah (Minister of Home Affairs) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Ministry of External Affairs) Dr.Sujoy Lal Thaosen (Director General) Anil Chauhan (Chief of Defence Staff) Manoj Pande (Chief of the Army Staff) R. Hari Kumar (Chief of the Naval Staff) Vivek Ram Chaudhari (Chief of the Air Staff) Rajnath Singh (Minister of Defence) Giridhar Aramane (Defence Secretary) Former Rajendra Prasad Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Zakir Husain † Mohammad Hidayatullah Varahagiri Venkata Giri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed † Basappa Danappa Jatti Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Zail Singh Ramaswamy Venkataraman Shankar Dayal Sharma Kocheril Raman Narayanan Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam Pratibha Patil Pranab Mukherjee † Ram Nath Kovind Jawaharlal Nehru † Gulzarilal Nanda Lal Bahadur Shastri Morarji Desai Charan Singh Indira Gandhi † Rajiv Gandhi † Vishwanath Pratap Singh Chandra Shekhar Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao Atal Bihari Vajpayee Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda Inder Kumar Gujral Manmohan Singh Kailash Nath Katju Govind Ballabh Pant Yashwantrao Chavan Uma Shankar Dikshit Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Hirubhai M. Patel Prakash Chandra Sethi Shankarrao Chavan Buta Singh Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Murli Manohar Joshi Indrajit Gupta L. K. Advani Shivraj Patil P. Chidambaram Sushilkumar Shinde M. C. Chagla Dinesh Singh Swaran Singh Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra Bali Ram Bhagat P. Shiv Shankar N. D. Tiwari Vidya Charan Shukla Madhav Singh Solanki Sikander Bakht Jaswant Singh Yashwant Sinha Natwar Singh S. M. Krishna Salman Khurshid Sushma Swaraj V G Kanetkar Imdad Ali B B Mishra N S Saxena S M Ghosh R C Gopal P R Rajgopal Birbal Nath R N Sheopory S D Chowdhury Shival Swarup J F Ribeiro T G L Iyer S D Pandey P G Harlarnkar Kanwar Pal Singh Gill S Subramanian D P N Singh S V M Tripathi M B Kaushal M N Sabharwal Trinath Mishra S C Chaube Jyoti Kumar Sinha S I S Ahmed V K Joshi A S Gill Vikram Srivastava K. Vijay Kumar Pranay Sahay Dilip Trivedi Prakash Mishra K. Durga Prasad R. R. Bhatnagar Anand Prakash Maheshwari Kuldiep Singh Bipin Rawat † Rajendrasinhji Jadeja S. M. Shrinagesh Kodandera Subayya Thimayya Pran Nath Thapar Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Sam Manekshaw Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Tapishwar Narain Raina Om Prakash Malhotra K. V. Krishna Rao Arun Shridhar Vaidya Krishnaswamy Sundarji Vishwa Nath Sharma Sunith Francis Rodrigues Bipin Chandra Joshi Shankar Roychowdhury Ved Prakash Malik Sundararajan Padmanabhan Nirmal Chander Vij J. J. Singh Deepak Kapoor V. K. Singh Bikram Singh Dalbir Singh Suhag Bipin Rawat † Manoj Mukund Naravane Mark Pizey Stephen Hope Carlill Ram Dass Katari Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Sourendra Nath Kohli Jal Cursetji Ronald Lynsdale Pereira Oscar Stanley Dawson Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Laxminarayan Ramdas Vijai Singh Shekhawat Vishnu Bhagwat Sushil Kumar Madhvendra Singh Arun Prakash Sureesh Mehta Nirmal Kumar Verma Devendra Kumar Joshi Robin K. Dhowan Sunil Lanba Karambir Singh Subroto Mukerjee Aspy Engineer Arjan Singh Pratap Chandra Lal Om Prakash Mehra Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Idris Hasan Latif Dilbagh Singh Lakshman Madhav Katre † Denis La Fontaine Surinder Mehra Nirmal Chandra Suri S. K. Kaul Satish Sareen Anil Yashwant Tipnis Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Shashindra Pal Tyagi Fali Homi Major Pradeep Vasant Naik Norman Anil Kumar Browne Arup Raha Birender Singh Dhanoa R. K. S. Bhadauria Kailash Nath Katju V. K. Krishna Menon Yashwantrao Chavan Swaran Singh Jagjivan Ram Bansi Lal Chidambaram Subramaniam Shankarrao Chavan K. C. Pant Sharad Pawar Pramod Mahajan Mulayam Singh Yadav George Fernandes Jaswant Singh A. K. Antony Arun Jaitley Manohar Parrikar Nirmala Sitharaman M. K. Vellodi O. Pulla Reddy P. V. R. Rao A. D. Pandit V. Shankar Harish Chandra Sarin K. B. Lall Govind Narain D. R. Kohli Gian Prakash S. Banerjee J. A. Dave K. P. A. Menon P. K. Kaul S. M. Ghosh S. K. Bhatnagar T. N. Seshan Naresh Chandra Narinder Nath Vohra K. A. Nambiar T. K. Banerjee Ajit Kumar T. R. Prasad Yogendra Narain Subir Dutta Ajay Prasad Ajai Vikram Singh Shekhar Dutt Vijay Singh Pradeep Kumar Shashi Kant Sharma R. K. Mathur G. Mohan Kumar Sanjay Mitra Ajay Kumar	Gangte Tugung (USCA) (POW) Qhehezu Tuccu (NSCN)
Casualties and losses
2000–2024: 38 killed[1]	2000–2024: 175 killed 212 Surrendered 741 Arrested[2]
2000–2024: 31 civilians killed[3]

The Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh is a part of the larger Northeast India insurgency involving multiple groups trying to separate from or destabilize the province. Because Arunachal Pradesh is a border state, militants sometimes conduct cross border operations to facilitate their activities. In addition to the non-state groups operating in the region, since its recapture in the 1962 War, there has been incursions from the Chinese Army in the region further escalating the conflict.^[4] The conflict has cooled since police arrest of major insurgent leaders.^[5] The insurgency has seen many minor actors in conflict with each other due to ethnic and religious differences.

The National Liberation Council of Taniland (NLCT), an ethnic separatist group, was active along the Assam – Arunachal Pradesh border. The NLCT seeks to establish a separate nation in northeast India known as Taniland for the Tani peoples. Their most recent activity was a shooting attack in the neighboring Assam province.^[6]

National Socialist Council of Nagaland is a much larger ethno-nationalist separatist group. It also seeks a separate nation for the Naga peoples known as Greater Nagaland.^[7] The government of India and the NSCN had been in negotiations since 2001 with various cease-fires declared, and were close to a peace agreement in 2015, but ultimately fell apart. They continue operations in camps in the Tirap and Changlang districts.^[4]

United Socialist Council of Arunachal was a minor communist terror organization operating in the province. It was led by Gangte Tugung until his capture by state police along with much of the USCA leadership on August 10, 2005. Tungung had previously been arrested twice but escaped both times.^[5]

• 11 January: Six hardcore cadres of NSCN-IM miltant group wete arrested by Police in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[8]
• 12 January: Two cadres of the ULFA-I militant group including a lieutenant was arrested by Assam rifles while trying to cross to India from Myanmar.^[9]
• 13 January: A cadre of ULFA-I was arrested by Assam rifles in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[10]
• 5 April: A cadre of the NCSN-K militant group was arrested along with weapons by Security forces in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[11]
• 4 May: Three cadres of the ULFA-I militant group was arrested by Assam rifles in Tirap District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[12]
• 13 May: A self-styled seargent of the NSCN-IM militant group was arrested by security forces in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[13]
• 17 June: Two cadres of NSCN-U militant group was arrested by Indian army in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[14]
• 29 July: A cadre of the NSCN-K militant group was arrested by Arunachal pradesh police in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh.^[15]
• 19 August: A commander of the NSCN-U militant group identified as Mineshwar Dihingia, was arrested by the security forces.^[16]