PREPAK belittles peace talk gesture
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 09 2021:
The proscribed People's Revolutionary Party of Kanglei-pak (PREPAK) will be observing Athoubasing Gi Ningsing Numit/Martyrs' Day' on November 12 in honour or the martyred revolutionaries.
On the occasion, the outfit and its armed wing Red Army paid highest regard to all martyred revolutionaries and prayed for their souls to remain in peace.
The outfit has been observing 'Athoubasing Gi Ningsing Numit' every year to remember the incident of sudden attack ca ried out by a combined team of CRPF and Manipur police at a transit camp of the outfit located at Leimarok near Kameng on November 12,1978 wherein outfit's Dhiren and Kabikanta along with a PLA cadre Gambhir were killed.
The day also coincides with the November 12, 1985 firing incident at Kabowakching sugar factory in which outfit's then supreme commander RK Tulachandra alias Loyataba laid down his life for the cause of the people of Kangleipak (Manipur).
While appealing to people to offer prayers for the martyred souls on the day by lighting candles at every gate in the evening, the proscribed outfit also called upon people to stop all forms of entertainment on the day.
Rejecting the appeal made by Manipur government to all the revolutionary groups to bring an end to conflict by holding peace talks, a PREPAK statement issued on the occasion by Charge d' Affairs, publicity and propaganda Leibaak Ngaakpa Luwang said that the appeal made through a statement of state home department on October 29 was not only meaningless but also an attempt to suppress the truth so to wrongly portray revolutionary groups to the people as anti-peace and hindering development.
It indeed was a matter of shame and dishonour for India which claims to be the largest democracy in the world and chairperson of three committees of the United Nations and relentlessly seeking support from global countries to become permanent member of the UN Security Council.
While reiterating that the Manipur merger agreement forcibly signed on September 21,1949 and came into effect from October 15 of the same year Was annexation, the PREPAK statement said that the agreement cannot be valid as per Indian Independence Act, 1947, Manipur Constitution Act, 1947 and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969 provision.
The national assembly constituted by the people of Manipur during the time, people and present generation have been opposing and condemning the agreement.
Despite fully acknowledging this, India is not only unable to provide answers to national political question of the people of Manipur as well as matters on national and international laws but also laying trap once again upon revolutionaries to come to Indian mainstream by laying down arms after failing to suppress armed revolution by its powerful armed forces.
The ongoing armed movement is not against underdevelopment or to distort unity of India or separation from India but to give back sovereign status of Kangleipak (Manipur) that had been snatched away by India from the people of the land so that they could live independently like earlier.
While highlighting the difference in India's handling of armed movement in Manipur and the northeast region to that of Maoist movement in some states of mainland India, the PREPAK statement said that India considers Maoist hit states of the country as its own land while Kangleipak as a foreign land.
On the allegation of disturbing the peaceful atmosphere, the PREPAK statement said that this is due to India's attack on Kangleipak by its armed forces and revolutionary groups are only trying to restore peaceful atmosphere by evicting Indian Occupational Force (IOF) from Kangleipak.
At one point of time, revolutionaries were branded as 'misguided youth' not only by the central government but the namesake Manipur government too accorded them unfamiliar title.
Kangleipak and India never had any relation at any phase of history nor during the new generation and hence revolutionaries are asking India to leave Kangleipak and return to their own land.
According to the PREPAK statement, the attempt to convert Kanglei people as Hindustani or Indian indeed is misleading people of the land by India.
Since time immemorial to the period of monarchy and to democratic administration, both hills and valley people of Kangleipak remained under a single administration and lived together with harmony but hills and valley had been put under different administration people in the hills and valley separated ever since India occupied Kangleipak.
Origin of hills and valley people of Kangleipak had extinct after India occupied the land while the spirit of indigenous economy and social identity too waned gradually, the PREPAK statement added.
Though it does not want existence of genuine revolutionary movement based on national question, India always supports ethnic or community based armed groups by sponsoring arms and money and does not want to bring an end to these activities as it is a big source of income for administrative leaders and top officials.
Government invested huge amount of money to military and para military forces to contain insurgency and the Union government allows military and para military forces to utilise the money freely though the home department is entitled to deal with insurgency related activities.
On the other hand, government or their military and para military forces are utilising armed ethnic groups they groomed and sponsored to weaken genuine revolutionary movement or to create hindrance to latter's activities.
This indeed is a tactics successfully used by India against the Kanglei people without using their military power or weapons.
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