Imphal, March 05, 2010: The proscribed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) has resolved to take on the NSCN (IM)'s agenda of jeopardising and straining relationship among different revolutionary groups of the region.

The changed position of the RPF was adopted during a meeting of the outfit's executive committee held last month, conveyed a statement issued by the outfit's Secretary Publicity T Leisemba.

The RPF supports the revolutionary movement of the NSCN (IM) for an independent Nagaland.

But RPF would fight back any design or activity of the NSCN (IM) aimed at upsetting the integrity of Manipur.

Since the past, RPF views all ethnic groups/communities settling in the hills and valley as compatriots.

Without any feeling of difference based on ethnicity or religion, the outfit has been waging a liberation movement against the alien rule for a united Manipur.

Under a firm belief that all revolutionary groups including both with similar and dissimilar goals and principles need to foster close relationship and fight together against the common enemy, the RPF always viewed all revolutionary groups of the region as friendly and fraternal organisations.

�The RPF believes in such cordial relationship among different revolutionary groups of the region, and is of the firm opinion that there ought to be such cordiality�, it asserted.

On the other hand, it is the wish and plan of the alien rule to strain such cordiality and sow seeds of distrust and animosity among different revolutionary groups.

In short, it has become the duty of the common enemy to drive wedges among the revolutionary whereas it is the responsibility of the revolutionary groups to forge unity amongst themselves.

Under the same principle, the RPF has been treading on a path so as to maintain a cordial relationship with the NSCN (IM), even though the two organisations have divergent goals, with a firm belief that the two share a fraternal bond and are fighting against one common enemy.

Despite such friendly disposition of the party, many RPF activists have either been killed or tortured or their weapons confiscated by NSCN (IM) in the past.

Still then, the RPF was confident that such issues can be solved and avoided through peaceful talk with an understanding that the two parties have been fighting identical wars of liberation.

However, in total contradiction to the party's noble and friendly principle, NSCN (IM) shot dead two more RPF cadres at Vahoram Tangkhul village on October 19 last year, fully knowing that the two were RPF cadres.

Another injured RPF cadre was shot dead after intercepting a group of villagers who were carrying him for treatment even as communication had been already made with NSCN (IM) authorities for safe passage of the injured cadre.

Such continuous acts of treachery which were quite unbecoming of a revolutionary group constrained the RPF to review its policy with regard to NSCN (IM), it conveyed.

Stating that it would tackle all nefarious designs of NSCN (IM), the RPF, nevertheless, asserted that there is no change in its perception of all communities of Manipur as compatriots bonded by kinship.

The RPF would welcome any initiative to address the changed situation through noble and amicable means, added the outfit.

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