'RPF striving to strengthen relationship with masses'
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 27 2015 :
As a revolutionary group, the banned RPF said that it shares an umbilical relationship with the masses and it is this relationship which has been strengthening and sustaining the liberation movement, and this filial relationship makes the liberation movement a movement of the masses.
In his message to the people on the 36th raising day of Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) on February 25, the outfit's president Irengbam Chaoren also said the front has been striving relentlessly to strengthen relationship with the masses, adding the party is well aware that it is fully dependent on the masses just like fishes cannot survive in the absence of water.
He said the inseparable bond shared between the revolutionaries and the masses will ultimately propel the liberation movement to its greatest heights and in such a scenario, there would be no distinction between revolutionaries and the suffering masses or non-combatants.
In another word, Chaoren said, civilians will become freedom fighters directly or indirectly, adding civilians or neutral population will disappear when the liberation movement reached its zenith.
He said that it is this socio-political condition where the revolutionaries and civilians cannot be distinguished which is feared the most by the Indian State.
That is why, the Government of India and its puppet local Government have been consistently scheming to draw a line of segregation between revolutionaries and the masses, he alleged.
Chaoren said the armed movement for right to self-determination of Manipur is today known far and wide across the planet and alleged that on account of the prolonged colonial rule, all administrative departments have become highly corrupted beyond any hope of redemption and lives of many innocent people were cut short abruptly and without any honour.
A number of people who were picked up by security forces disappeared without any trace only to resurface as skeletal remains at camps which were/are occupied by Indian military forces and their stooges, the RPF leader alleged.
He alleged that social activists and scholars who have the audacity to protest or critique against people's sufferings and repressive measures are being singled out and victimized by the Indian State.
"Given these harsh realities and the undeniable political history of Manipur, right to self-determination is a legitimate and indispensable right of our people" .
Since the past many years, he further alleged, several powerful agencies and colonial instruments are being employed by the Indian State to subjugate our masses and ultimately filter out the idea and yearning for independence from the political moorings of the society.
To achieve their objective, Indian agents have been drawing artificial lines of division between different communities of Manipur, and the State's economy and natural resources have been taken under their complete control, Chaoren claimed and added that driven by the greed of capitalism, Indian capitalist class and their local cohorts have been exploiting resources of the land.
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