International Day of Peace : No peace nor security, says PREPAK
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 20 2014 : The proscribed PREPAK has greeted all the oppressed people of the world including the people of Kangleipak (Manipur) where there is neither peace nor security on the occasion of the International Day of Peace (September 21) .

Under the alien rule and repressive measures it has unleashed since the past many decades, peaceful environment remains a far-fetched dream for the people of the land.

What the people of the land yearn for is not piecemeal measures devoid of freedom.

What the people have been demanding is genuine, long lasting peace, the outfit asserted in a statement issued by its assistant secretary, publicity and propaganda Leibakngakpa Luwang.

To PREPAK and the people of the land, it is very clear that there can be no genuine peace when there is no freedom.

As such, there is the growing need for the common people take pro-active roles in the international movement for permanent and meaningful peace.

One of the biggest challenges and concerns of the United Nations are the countries/Nations which have been waging armed liberation movements and people of these countries who have been facing conflict situation and the resultant insecurity.

At present, more than 200 crore people have been waging armed liberation movements across the world.

The United Nations embarked on a journey of ensuring peace in the world after the devastating World War II .

However, more than 500 crore people including revolutionary cadres have been denied all fundamental rights guaranteed by the United Nations, leaving aside peace on account of conflict situations, the outfit said.

The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 advocated that freedom and other fundamental rights should be ensured uniformly to all Nations and people of the world.

Then the UN General Assembly passed the landmark resolution on December 14, 1960, "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and People" .

This declaration recognised the inalienable right of all colonised countries to wage armed liberation movements against imperial powers.

If any Nation has a well documented political history, they have the right to self determination and through the right to self determination, they enjoy the right to decide their socio-economic and political future, the outfit asserted.

The UN gives the right to all colonial people to wage liberation movements using any available resources and means.

The UN, on October 12, 1972, further resolved that member countries should support liberation movements launched against imperial powers.

The UN Declaration on Right to Self Determination was further endorsed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

However, the Government of India has been deliberately overlooking both the covenants.

This arrogance of the Government of India is the primary factor for the absence of peace in Jammu & Kashmir and the Western South East Asia (WESEA), it alleged.

Whereas the Government of India has been misleading the international community, people of these regions have been suffering extreme misery for the past many decades.

Nonetheless, any liberation movements which have their historical roots and waged at the level of the mass in accordance to international rules and norms can never be suppressed.

The world history is a testimony of the fact that legitimate liberation movements would triumph at the end, it asserted.

The outfit further called upon the people of the land to stand united and fight collectively against the alien rule for lasting and meaningful peace.

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