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Imphal, Mar 24:
The proscribed armed group, the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), is observing the 44th Red Army Uprising Day of its army wing on March 26. In connection with this observance, the Chairman of the Interim Council, PREPAK, has extended revolutionary greetings to all the people of the WeSEA region affected by colonial regimes.
In the Chairman’s message, it is stated that in the annals of history, Kangleipak (Manipur) has witnessed two historical catastrophes, the British colonization in the 19th Century and the illegal occupation of Kangleipak by the Indian Dominion on October 15, 1949 till today, completely tarnishing the sovereignty and the democratic values, civil and political rights of the people of Kangleipak. In the first instance, Kangleipak resisted the British imperialism to defend her millennia old sovereignty in which the Manipur martyrs fell to the gallows. In the latter, India annexed Manipur by completely suppressing the political and democratic aspirations Kangleicha by sidelining the democratic election of 1948 in the due course of coercing the Manipur King under house arrest, psychological and mental torture in signing the obnoxious Manipur Merger Agreement on September 21, 1949 in complete violation of the Indian Independence Act, 1947; the Manipur Constitution Act, 1947; the UN Charter and the existing customary international laws vis-à-vis the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969. The said Manipur Merger Agreement was neither ratified by the then Manipur Assembly (read Parliament) nor appended to in several public meetings held thereafter.
The statement said, “before India’s annexation of Manipur, all the communities mutually coexisted harmoniously in the vast expanse of the territory of Kangleipak with a strong economy as evident from the address of the King Bodhachandra in the Maiden Assembly Session on October 18, 1948 which stated the territory of Manipur expanded upto the southern portion of China in the north, the gold mines in the Sibasagar valley, the river of Chindwin in the east and south, and Chandrapore (Cachar) in the west wherein he declared that the present area (of Manipur) was 8,650 square miles plus 7,000 square miles of Kabaw valley, including 7,900 square miles of the Manipur Hills. Kabaw valley belonged to us and the annual compensation of Rs. 6,270 would stop only when the Kabaw valley had been retransferred to Manipur. The pain for the lease of Kabaw Valley to Burma was one reason for the demise of the King. No doubt, Kangleipak had a vast expanse of territory with a self-sufficient economy. The unity of Manipur resisted the British imperialism till 1891 when all the princely states of India were already fallen prey to British colonialism. Now is the time for a united Manipur to work for the political advancement of Manipur.
“After 1949, Indian colonial divisive policy had separated hills and plains that put Kangleipak into a never ending political turmoil, planted demographic grafting by removing Inner Line Permit System in 1950 allowing free entry, unchecked influx of outsiders from other states and squeezing Manipur’s territorial boundary. Ever since, the Indian colonial regime has ceaselessly been trying to violate the internationally recognized territorial integrity of Manipur by engineering ethnic cleansing and the creation of unknown land from the territory of Manipur. The Colonial political process has been so deep rooted that all the communities had been set against one another and made prone to corruption with no feasible peace and security. It helped the foreign aggressors in their campaign to wipe out Manipur from the globe by using the IB, RAW, SIB besides the different strata of Indian military agencies.
“In 1947, the Political Department of India succeeded in dividing Manipur into two entities, hills and plains. To continuously threaten to disintegrate Manipur, India made the Akbar Hydari (Nine Point) Agreement of 1947; the 16-Point Agreement of 1960 and the Shillong Accord of 1975. Understanding the fact that these bilateral agreements could not violate the territorial integrity of Manipur, the Bangkok Declaration of 2001 has been the another imperialist design to break up Manipur.
“To perpetuate the Indian colonialism, India has established a parasitic captive market economy for the last 75 years to keep all the Kangleipak people under economic bondage instead of shaping an independent strong Manipur Economy to earn a place in the global economy. India has been consistently trying to show the world that Manipur had been an integral part of India by inventing a thesis of unemployment as the root cause of all the liberation movements in the world including that of the Vietnamese’s against America and the Indian revolution against the British colonialism. Colonial agents have been exploiting the colonial economy of Manipur to sabotage the democratic rights of the Kangleipak people. Freedom of the media has been gagged and students have been charged with seditions. Above this, the notorious AFSPA, 1958 has been clamped all over Manipur giving blanket impunity to the armed forces and sham elections held under bayonets and guns in the name of democracy.
“The money power and the horse-trading in the Indian elections have only strengthened the Indian occupation of Kangleipak and turned the beauty of democracy into mirage of the desert without any human values. Though, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi termed the Indian election as the largest democratic exercise in the world, these elections could not be equated to the referendum of a free Kangleipak or the plebiscite on the national question of Kangleipak.
“The ruthless uncaring attitude of the government has turned the innocent victims of the Chin-Kuki narco-terrorists staying in the relief camps into street beggars without any form of human dignity. The conflict has rendered 70,000 internally displaced, killed 213 innocent lives, 38 missing including students, more than 3000 houses gutted and agricultural produce from around 10,000 hectares worth crores has been destroyed. Besides, around 25,000 students have been affected and young children and aged peoples have suffered from psychological trauma and mental illness. More destructive mechanism the colonialists ever built during the course of this ongoing conflict is the engineered trust deficit among the people.
“When almost all the revolutionary groups of the WESEA Region have been hypnotized into the Indian colonial trap of ceasefire agreement or peace talk, the only group that opposed these Indian sinister designs has been the revolutionary forces of Kangleipak. This compels India to use every available means to wipe out the revolutionary forces of Kangleipak. In order to achieve this goal, India manipulated the SoO (Suspension of Operation) with the 25 Chin-Kuki- Zo groups who never fired a single bullet against the Indian armed forces in 2005 with the Assam Rifles and in 2008 as a tripartite agreement. Ever since, India has been using these SoO groups as mercenaries to launch a full scale proxy war in Manipur to completely eradicate all the revolutionary forces of Manipur. India has been providing these SoO groups monthly stipends, arms and ammunitions including logistic support and also used them in espionages.
“India could have stopped the ongoing Chin-Kuki-Zo aggression on Kangleipak, starting May 3, 2023 that has pioneered ethnic cleansing of the Meiteis within minutes if India really wanted to. This proxy war has been systematically and geopolitically designed to root out the freedom movement of Manipur on one hand and to combat the Chinese expansion in the WESEA region, for the successful establishment of the Kaladan project and harnessing the natural resources of the WESEA region on the other hand. An eye on India’s internal security, the curtailment of the freedom movement of Manipur, the booming economy of South East Asia and the mounting tension with China has made Manipur the geopolitical war zone. The recent spurt for border fencing and removal of FMR (Free Movement Regime) has been rolled out to categorize the freedom movement of Manipur as trans-border insurgency and to prevent marching of Chinese army into Manipur in case of a possible future China-India confrontation.
“With Arakan Army controlling the major areas of India’s multi-billion dollar Kaladan Project in Myanmar, India has built up a rapport between the Kukis of Manipur and the Chin-Kukis of Myanmar that enabled the Assam Rifles going down to Kaladan. The recent aggression on Kangleipak is very crucial for our people as the Indian and Myanmarese Kuki groups with sophisticated weapons, facing the onslaught of the Myanmarese Army, have sneaked into Manipur targeting the Meiteis and uprooting the revolutionary forces of Manipur. For India, it is always win-win situation and be like killing two birds with one stone. With no central security forces protecting them, India must have wondered how the innocent civilians have been facing the Kuki terrorists’ bombs and bullets where India stands a silent spectator. India must not forget how the Meiteis and the co-indigenous people of Kangleipak have risen from the Seven Years Devastation towards gaining freedom from India.
“Now is the time that a united Manipur (Kangleipak) with a common strength of all the indigenous people in all their respective capabilities should confront this war. What would have been if we kept waiting for the government to tackle the worsening situation? For winning the war, we should seek the help and the blessings of our people in a more humane way without any kind of force or intimidation.
“The most important thing at present is to stop this war which has brought collateral damages on both sides. This needs the big role of religious leaders, CSOs, senior citizens, youths, students and women leaders though it may take time to rebuild the trust deficit of this unwise war. As Kangleipak has been a multi-ethnic nation since time immemorial, any arrangement should suit the aspirations of all”.
In the end, the part of the Red Army, PREPAK in the ongoing people’s liberation movement of Kangleipak for the restoration of the lost sovereignty of Manipur is laudable. The Party has been honoured by the supreme sacrifices made by the Red Army in challenging the IOF (Indian Occupation Forces) in every battle. Our people should always firmly believe in their bosom that so long as the Red Army keeps on engaging the IOF in all battle fronts, the dawn of freedom is drawing near. This only will be able to regain our lost sovereignty.
