Total shutdown called on August 15
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 12 2020:
NSCN/GPRN and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-Independent) have imposed total shutdown of all commercial activities, administrative services and educational institutions (except for most essential and emergency services) between 12 midnight and 6 pm of August 15 .
"The colonial Indian Independence day is not a day of freedom of our people but of bondage.
Hence, we call upon our people not to take part in celebrating it voluntarily or under duress.
Any form of duress or force should be recorded if possible on an audio-video format and released through BitChute/New Tube sites," said a joint statement of the groups.
While the Cuban Missile Crisis was building up and of it, in December 1961, India's then Prime Minister Nehru ordered a forward push resulting in the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and an eventual crushing defeat of India in the war.
This time while COVID-19 calamity was unfolding, India had made the same "mistake" and sent her soldiers in May 2020 to move into "Chinese territory" with another apparent forward "push policy" resulting in a hand to hand combat between the soldiers of the two countries.
"It is incredible to see colonial India's expansionism, but, we need to remind ourselves of the saying in India, Wherever Hinduism has gone that is India," the statement said asserting that the "historical Nations of our regions have tasted colonial Indian expansionism since they inherited the divided parts of British administered India" .
"We should recall here the ideals of freedom envisioned by US President Roosevelt.
Actually he was instrumental to persuade Britain to give India her Independence.
He appreciated the power grip and greed of the British empire as reflected in his interactions with Winston Churchill.
He saw the menace of III Reich Nazi Germany aiming for world domination and was against empires in general.
On 14 August 1941, The Atlantic Treaty was signed.
The clause 2 and 3 of that treaty is very important for our region, as the wishes of our peoples were not asked for and decisions were made at the behest of handful of hapless so called leaders.
We the people of the region, hence forth should be addressed as Western South East Asia [WeSEA], unitedly resolute in fulfilling our birth rights and restore our ancestral Nationhood outside the political entity," the statement added.