We are not Indians, alleges PREPAK-3
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 01 2018: The population of Kangleipak is a mere 0.2% of the total population of India.

Bringing to an end such a minuscule population is very easy to India.

Just like the British made it easier for them to rule over the people of the North East by dividing them on the basis of community, language, religion, culture and tradition, the Indian political system is also dividing the people by creating a situation where the law of the land is not the same, particularly by enacting laws like Manipur (Kangleipak) Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, Manipur (Kangleipak) State Panchayati Raj Act, etc, the hills and valley people who have been riding together the same boat of time for ages have been split and are heading towards different directions without proper destinations.

Besides attempts are being made incessantly to disturb the boundary of the land having its own history of more than 2000 years as an independent, sovereign country.

Article 3 and other related provisions of the Indian Constitution directly support (are being used as weapon) the alleged colonial policies of India.

Ever since India forcibly occupied Kangleipak and usurped all powers of legislature and judiciary, the territorial integrity of this land has always remained threatened, Sathy alleged.

"Since our land had been taken under the fold of Indian rule, India, for some benefits, has time and again disturbed the boundary drawn by the blood that was shed from the bodies of our departed forefathers.

Thus we have lost invaluable tracts of our land in the border.

The provisions of the Constitution of India and their leaders' characters amply show that so long as we remain under their dominion, we cannot take for granted that the territorial integrity of Kangleipak would not be compromised.

Thus the responsibility of protecting the integrity of Kangleipak lies in the united strength and determination of both hills and valley people", asserted the acting Chairman.

"The acts of oppression arid tyranny perpetrated by the mainland India are all characteristics of colonial rule and we shall have to face this pain and anguish until our freedom is restored", he continued.

There had been a number of incidents in which the Indian military forces had perpetrated most barbaric crimes in Kangleipak including rape of middle-aged and married women right in front of their own young children and husbands, outraging the modesty of young girls including students, who couldn't bear the ignominy anymore and took their own lives, and not only that, after violating the women's modesty, shooting the victims to death at point blank range.

On the other hand, many innocent men and young boys had not only been brutally tortured in the name of searching for insurgents but also sodomised by Indian military forces.

So many men had been arrested, executed secretly and buried at unknown places.

Such incidents have come to be known as forced disappearance which have caught international attention as one of the most shocking and heinous crimes in the world ever perpetrated by the state actors.

Many women, who do not have a clear idea or information whether their husbands are still alive or dead, live an uncertain life as half widows.

This phenomenon of half widows prevails widely not only in the North East but also in Kashmir, it alleged.

India has been consistently trying to project the ongoing revolutionary movement to restore the lost freedom of the people of Kangleipak as acts of terrorism and extremism in front of the world.

"The armed revolutionary movement has been necessarily launched only to drive the Indian military forces out of our motherland and to defend ourselves.

We have never crossed the territory of India to invade or never beleaguered them", Sathy said.

It is the resolve of the United Nations that in order to protect itself or escape from the colonial torture and oppression, an occupied country can use either peaceful or violent means.

The main objective of the struggle for freedom launched by PREPAK is that the independence of Kangleipak forcibly taken away by India should be returned, asserted the acting Chairman.

However India, having resolved not to give back Kangleipak's freedom taken away by them, has been sending innumerable soldiers in terms of thousands and thousands to suppress the revolution and are carrying out mass executions of civilians and revolutionaries, it alleged.

Nevertheless except for some obstacles created on the path of revolutionary movement by betrayers and fifth columnists now and then, no significant hindrance has hampered the struggle for liberation.

On the other hand, even though they commit acts of torture and repression at their best level, the people's struggle for restoring independence can never be weakened at all, PREPAK claimed.

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