Colonial regimes sustained through IFIs: RPF
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 26 2015:
The proscribed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) president Irengbam Chaoren while celebrating the outfit's 36th raising day on Wednesday said the situation in the nations which are already reeling under colonial rule is quite similar to 18th century Europe where all the factories, mills and means of production were controlled by a wealthy few, in addition to physical occupation through military forces, colonial regimes are being sustained through International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and corporate bodies.
It is now a reality that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have started invading Western South East Asia (WESEA) including Manipur, it said while claiming that of the total money invested by Asian Development Bank (ADB) in India during 1986-2011, 34.64 per cent was in energy sector.
Transport and Telecommunications made up 30.89 per cent.
Maximum share of ADB's investment in WESEA (North East) goes to energy and transport, the message said, calling this is a matter of serious concern.
Maximum investment in energy and transport sectors in a region where there is little or no industrial productivity is an undeniable manifestation of the Government of India's ploy to exploit the resources of WESEA for a protracted period in collusion with developed countries, it continued, saying as concomitant impacts of this ploy, more and more hill areas of Manipur are being militarized and numerous colonies of Indian immigrants are being planted at the project sites and elsewhere.
The message further continued that countries which have had experience of colonialism often took the form and character of their colonial masters after achieving independence, for instance India.
Manipur, Tripura, Kashmir and many other nations which regained sovereignty after the departure of British colonial rulers were forcibly annexed by India.
"After the forced annexation in 1949, Manipur was fast transformed into a dependent economy and our people are being suppressed under the boots of Indian military forces," it claimed.
It maintained that the incompatibility and conflict between WESEA and India have been demonstrated time and again beyond any doubt by the acts of discrimination and racism meted out to people from WESEA in different parts of India.
In the message Chaoren also said rather than accepting that racism is ingrained in their worldview, majority of the Indian people have been trying to project people from WESEA as inferior to them racially and culturally.
"Different forms and dimensions of people's struggles are all reflections of the armed revolutionary movement, he said, adding all these people's struggles collectively crystallize the future of the armed revolution.
Many youths who passed out from different colleges and universities of India understand the legitimacy of the armed movement and they have been continually taking up arms against the colonial regime, the message said, insisting, "Our people, our students and our mothers and sisters have been struggling to free themselves from this wretched,
bonded life" .
In all nations which are struggling for independence, the masses and the freedom fighters share a close-knit intrinsic relationship, Chaoren said and added that in Manipur where a violent storm of liberation movement has been brewing for quite some time, people are ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of freedom and right to self-determination.
"This is no exaggeration" .
His message further added, "Our glorious history is a living testimony and the same legacy is very much alive today.
There is no dearth of armed freedom fighters in Manipur as there is a well-defined course of revolutionary movement and a very clear objective" .
Chaoren said that here it will be worthwhile to recall Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's statement: "Together with 82 people, I brought a successful revolution in Cuba.
The number of people does not count, what matters is faith in the revolutionary movement" .
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