UNLF greets people on its 48th b'day-3
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 25 2012:
Contd from Yesterday .
...global attention to the oppression faced by the people of Manipur.
The new generation should learn to love their own motherland, and the UNLF trusts that people should emerge who can contribute to Manipur's independence struggle.
These generations should also be aware of the social and economic transformations that are taking place, and help shape these transformations towards the peoples struggle for freedom" .
"India's much hyped 'Look East Policy' is still a wish list and the general perception is that India should use the land bridge of the Northeast to effect connectivity and trade with the East Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
Its unstated, silent agenda is to suppress our freedom struggle, and to wean away the people to a false dream, to disconnect our people from the revolutionary movement.
LEP has its negative and positive aspects.
Tourism encourages the people to be object of gaze and it does not help our people to be pro-active towards developmental endeavour, and to enable ourselves to design our lives what we will show to the global fraternity? It does not empower the natives to design our lives like the Southeast Asian peoples" .
"The current tourism policy of India is only to use the natives for display of exotic life of indigenous people, but it does not help the indigenous people to design the growth and develop their own communities, and to share the fruits of global citizenship.
What is good from the current policy is to bring the Northeasterners/West South West Asians to refresh their age old ties.
The current schemes of the Indian rulers is to make the indigenous peoples to watch and wonder at the phenomenon of corporate money making, without being able to share the profits.
No local produce is encouraged in the current border trade.
India only wants to produce a chain of brothels around the highways, and increase the crime in the highways which we are experiencing on the National Highway 39" .
The statement further extended revolutionary greetings to cadres of UNLF and MPA; people of the Manipur; cadres and leaders of UNLF in the enemy's prison; member parties of CorCom; revolutionary organisations of WESIA, NSCN(K), NDFB, TPDF, ULFA; people of Kashmir; Maoist parties; Human Rights organisations, CSOs, International organisations; Irom Chanu Sharmila, who is on indefinite fast since the last 12 years in demand of the removal of AFSPA and many others on the occasion of UNLF's 48th Raising Day.