NE UG groups unite in boycotting I-Day
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, August 11, 2012: As in the previous years, Co-ordination Committee (CorCom), Manipur, a combined body of UNLF, KYKL, KCP, PREPAK, PREPAK (Pro), RPF and UPPK, has joined hands with Hynnewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT), Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF) and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) call to boycott India's Independence Day in north east region on August 15, 2012. As a mark of solidarity against 'Indian colonial occupation and military repression' these seven rebel groups have also called a general strike with effect from 1 am to 5.30 pm in the entire region on August 15, the Western Part of South East Asia.

Essential services, emergency measures, media and religious activities, however, would be exempted from the purview of the general strike.

Announcing this in a statement, Media Coordinator of CorCom, H Poirei asserted that 'India's 'Independence Day Celebrations' comes off on the 15th August 2012 are imposed, with a dirty politics behind it, to our innocent people in our region through the Puppet-governments of the 'states' who are political stooges, tamed and domesticated by Indian colonialism and hegemony.

India was never a country before 1947, when the British left.

This part of the world was merely a geographical expression.

Through a continual process of British colonial expansion, the entire region of South Asia fell into their hands.

British expansionism was not restricted and confined to South Asia alone.

It consumed Burma and our 'region', the western part of South East Asia.' Poirei went on to say that 'when the British left, not only the South Asian mainland, but our region also became independent on the 14th and the 15th August, 1947.This loosely administered sub-continent was polarized into two nation-states, India and Pakistan.

Since the very day the British left, Indian leaders have launched out an aggressive, regional expansionist policy with an imperialist agenda.

Using all possible political machinations, India annexed the whole of our region, a non-Indian territory inhabited by non-Indians.

Thus the Indian brown 'Sahibs' became our new colonial masters.

We have become their post-colonial colonies'.

To materialize her expansionist policy in our region, India uses two types of weapons: first, hard politico-military tools exemplified by administration, armed forces, AFSPA and NIA, etc.; and second, soft socio-cultural tools like education, media, symbols, rituals etc, the statement alleged, adding that "observation of India's Independence Day celebration in our region is such a ritual that can have potent and long-lasting impact on hearts and minds of our people in injecting Indian nationalism into the core of their souls though seems outwardly guile-less'.

"To non-Indian people like us, acceptance of Indian nationalism is tantamount to acquiescence in our imminent national death.

There objective is to obliterate our ethnic national identities by disconnecting us from our past, consequently from our present, and ultimately from our future, to graft us onto India's past, present and future, having a sense of community with other real Indians and to manufacture 'viable and usable' human beings out of us, to transform the racially different people from them and 'who have no established loyalty to mother India' into a harmless and homogenized people.

In brief, India is trying to impose their national identity upon us by assimilating our racially different people and to transform us into a harmless, meek and homogenized people usable to them.

This is their ultimate as well as civilized solution to dichotomy of contesting parallel nationalisms prevailing in the present India.

So, celebrating India's Independence Day is not less than subverting our own nationalism and committing collective national suicide for a stable and strong India", the statement contended.

"It is our duty to give a fitting reply to the Indian political entrepreneurs by abstaining from such Indian Observations, to unite ourselves in grief and defiance.

We can celebrate our first independence day only upon getting rid of the Indian rule and restoring our Sovereignty.

Therefore, keeping faith in the collective strength of our Region, we appeal to all our peoples to once again display our solidarity against India, the common enemy, by making the Boycott and General Strike a complete success', the statement added.

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