CorCom advocates collective Nationalism-III
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 09 2022:
Contd from prev issue

Through this policy of poppy plantation, the Government of India has been scheming to project the external conflict between India and Kangleipak as an internal conflict, it alleged.

By openly creating a drug economy in the State, the Government of India has been allegedly following a policy of igniting and sustaining conflict between hill people and plain people, it said.

A report furnished by the International Crisis Group has already pointed out that some actors deliberately take advantage of drug trafficking in areas where there are armed conflicts.

WESEA is one region in India which is worst affected by HIV/AIDS and these impacts have intrinsic relationship with the drug economy.

Corruption, nepotism, drug addiction and ethnic conflicts are all symptoms suffered by a Nation/region which has lost its independence and these symptoms are engineered by external powers, it said.

Youth are the backbone of every revolutionary and reactionary forces always target this group of people in order to suppress revolutions.

This tactic is common in every place of the world.

India too has been persistently following this strategy.

A large number of youth fell prey to drugs starting from 1980's.The situation was somehow contained following sustained efforts by revolutionary groups who were fully supported by the masses, it claimed.

"The transformation of Manipur as a place for poppy plantation and manufacturing drugs is a gift of the purported claims of improved law and order situation and declining insurgency", the CorCom said.

With the decline of revolutionary activities, Indian military forces have been directly or indirectly supporting poppy plantation within their areas of operation, it alleged.

It is wrong to blame one/two communities for drug abuse and smuggling of drugs.

It is essential to identify those people who have been collaborating with forces inimical to the collective interests of Manipur and exterminate them, it reads.

Thailand was fairly successful in tackling drug menace after it launched a War on Drugs in 2003 .

The Philippines too followed suit.

However, the Government of India has not done anything to solve the issue of drugs in Manipur because Manipur is an occupied territory, the CorCom further alleged.

As such, the people of Manipur ought to save the State from the jaws of drugs by filing a representation to the United Nations.

The people may also take help from the Convention of Psychotropic Substances 1971, Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 and UN Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988, it continued.

Since Manipur was allegedly annexed by India, the degree of dependence on New Delhi has been aggravating day by day and this is a clear indication that there is no room for development of Manipur under India's socio-economic and political system, it read.

Even though Manipur has a history of being an independent country/nationality, it would soon become devoid of any vitality if the people are not wary of India's drug war which targets the youth, it added.

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