Photos

Set ablaze

The remains of a house set ablaze by miscreants at Longmang, 18 kms from Haflong in North Cachar Hills district of Assam on June 4, 2009, morning around 4-30 AM. Altogether 34 persons have been killed while over 530 houses torched in the ongoing bloodbath in NC Hills.
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
 

Arms surrendered

Army personnel display the arms and ammunitions surrendered by three hardcore Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants who laid down their arms in front of the 5th Rajputana Rifles at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on June 3, 2009.
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
 

Goodbye to arms

Three hardcore Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) militant surrendered to the 5th Rajputana Rifles at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on June 3, 2009.
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
 

Banned and nabbed

File photo of Jewel Garlosa (R), chief of militant group Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) (Black Widow), who being arrested by Assam Police with the help of Karnataka Police in Bangalore on June 4, 2009. More than 300 people have been killed by Black Widow militants in North Cachar Hills district of Assam in the last five years. This year alone, militants have attacked trains 13 times in the hilly district killing 17 people in the process. Train services in the North Cachar Hills district have been suspended by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR).
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
 

South by Northeast

File photo of Jewel Garlosa (L), chief of militant group Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) (Black Widow), who being arrested by Assam Police with the help of Karnataka Police in Bangalore on June 4, 2009. More than 300 people have been killed by Black Widow militants in North Cachar Hills district of Assam in the last five years. This year alone, militants have attacked trains 13 times in the hilly district killing 17 people in the process. Train services in the North Cachar Hills district have been suspended by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR).
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
 
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.

Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.

Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.

Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.

Subir Ghosh