"We Kanglei (Manipuris) were never and will never be Indians-III"
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 10 2017:
On the other hand, except for keeping Kangleipak as its border post to safeguard the border since 1949, India has not taken a single significant step for the people of this region to stand on their own feet.
Yet the Indian leaders are trying to fool the people of the North East by raving that without development of the North East, India cannot be called a developed country, continued PREPAK acting Chairman Kh Sathy .
Even as preparations are being made not only for the Act East Policy but also for the Trans Asian Highway, nothing has been done to develop the border town, Moreh .
"Unless we know how to tap the benefits and steer the policies to our own advantages, those outsiders, who come into our land in the garb of visitors under then said policies, may get to settle down here for good.
The indigenous people may face the risk of disappearing in the oblivion of history while many jobless Kanglei women might become dead alive without human values, who sell their bodies for survival, and the land might become the capital of different diseases", the outfit cautioned .
The present day conflict of rights, benefits, shares and quotas is a natural outcome of Kangleipak being an alleged colonial state of India .
"While fighting among ourselves for the little crumbs of benefits handed out by the colonial master, the bond of brotherhood is loosening day by day.
When we can get out of the colonial grip of India and stand on our own as a separate sovereign nation, set up our own free government and chalk out our development plans, we would be able to live together with love and peace", reads the statement .
It then appealed to all the people of the hills and valley of Kangleipak (Manipur) to escape from the trap of influence and charms of the enemy and carry on a united struggle for liberation .
If all the peoples of the hills and the valley are united, Kangleipak (Manipur) can certainly regain its lost independence, Sathy asserted .
The acting Chairman then paid respects to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the long struggle for liberation that would decide the fate of the land .
He further conveyed warm greetings to all who have been disabled due to severe torture by the security forces for taking part in the liberation struggle, and those comrades languishing in the enemy's jails.