IT News
Imphal, August 08:
CorCom, the proscribed umbrella organization, has announced that it will impose a total shutdown on August 15 from 1 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., as it has done every year. The general strike will not apply to medical and essential services, electricity, water supply, fire services, the media, or religious matters.
In the press statement, M. Sak-hen, Media Coordinator of CorCom, stated that after forcibly integrating WESEA and Manipur, all the democratic institutions were abolished and the indigenous people were made dependent on India. All the indigenous customary laws for self-governance were torn into shreds and the Indian central will was enforced on the sons of the soil, the outfit claimed.
For the past 72 years, Manipur has been existing as a colony of India after it was forcefully annexed as a part of India’s expansionism on October 15, 1949, the release stated. Therefore, it added that there are no grounds for the people of Manipur to celebrate the Independence Day of India.
Attempts are still underway to transform the indigenous cultures of WESEA through the imposition of Hindu ways of life, the popularisation of the Hindi language, and the population invasion of Hindi-speaking Indians.
“India is waging a major war of racial discrimination over the indigenous populations of WESEA. The RSS-BJP’s ideology of “one nation, one religion, and one language” should be fought tooth and nail by the rising indigenous peoples, “opined the outfit.
It stated that the implementation of CAA, the scrapping of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir without the consent of the people of the states show India’s arrogance and blatant disregard of democratic principles.
Further, CorCom appeals to all not to hoist India’s Tri-Color Flag as India’s independence has nothing to do with Manipur.
