KIM's (Kuki Inpis) memo to PM on ILP
(A Lenthang) Kumpi - Kuki Inpis *
Rally for Inner Line Permit (ILP) by women activists of IMA Market at BT Road, Imphal on 4th July 2012 :: Pix - Banti Phurailatpam
Sir,
Both the Government of British India and the present Indian Government are aware of the Bengal Eastrn frontier Regulation Act was introduced by British India on 27th August, 1873 for safeguarding all the Indigenous peoples in the then India and Burma, the two countries India and Burma colonized by the Colonial Government then, but the region in question excluded resulting to this BEFR Act 1873.
Since then "Inner line Permit" prohibits entry of -
1. India citizens (non-residents of the area in question)
2. Foreigners (PAP)
3. Foreigners (RAP)
And the practice has been continued in the whole of north east India. Though the Act has mentioned specific areas; but in practice the entry of the above three categories are prohibited in the whole region beginning from Arakan Hills through Chittagong on to the whole region including Tripura and Manipur in between the two colonized India and Burma then.
The Act has safeguarded the Indigenous peoples' ancestral land and the minority communities as well. They could live in peace and social harmony. The naked truth is that the moment the "Inner line Permit" removed or amended without the consent of the Indigenous peoples, inevitably, indigenous peoples will be in unspeakable hardship and their ancestral lands be grabbed by outsiders as it is now started in the state of Tripura, and the end of the chaos will be the extinction of all Indigenous peoples in the so called "Independent Hill Country" in between the Governments in India and Burma. The British had tried to colonize this land, but we know why they failed. The world knows that the present chaos in the region is also the creation of the ruling Governments of India and Burma.
Therefore, it is prayed that the mighty Government of India in no case should have ever attempted to show "might is right" to remove the "Inner line Permit" for the sake of peace and tranquility in our land. Any move to remove or lift the "Innerline Permit" without the consent of the Indigenous peoples, will be taken as a colonization of the said region in the name of Democracy and will be collectively opposed by all the indigenous peoples till the last breath.
Yours, (A Lenthang) Kumpi
Kuki Inpis
* This info was publisehd at Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition) This article was posted on July 11 2012
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