Surrender dramas intended to defame people's movement: KYKL
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 24 2022:
The proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) has alleged that the state government has been organising fake home coming ceremonies as a part of its agenda to promote defamation of the people's movement.
In a statement, KYKL Publicity and Research secretary A Yaiphaba said: "The phrase 'Lanna Chatlurabasing mahousagi ichelda hallakhre', which is often used by the Indian colonial masters and their allies to repress the liberation movement currently underway in the state, may be observed through the lens of ideological state apparatus".
Besides misleading the people, this also leaves the impression among the masses that launching a liberation movement to reclaim our lost sovereignty is unnecessary and that Kanglei revolutionaries are misguided people, the secretary added.
There is no doubt that homecoming ceremonies, in which deserters from the movement or a randomly picked gangsters unrelated to the movement are dressed in combat clothes, have misled the people, informing them that starting a freedom movement has no meaning since India is our own country and Manipur is not a colonial state, Yaiphaba said, adding that, to defeat the enemies, it is crucial that we identify their tactics and reject such misleading state practices.
Pointing out that in recent weeks, there has been widespread media coverage of a story showing 12 members of KCP (PWG) and one member of KYKL laying down their weapons before the chief minister of Manipur, Yaiphaba said it testifies how the state government and the central government collaborated to bring 12 KCP (PWG) cadres and one KYKL cadre back into mainstream society.
A false concept of India as our nation is the message the report will have conveyed to the people, as well as the notion that those who fight against colonialism are misguided people, he said.
While rejecting the news report of an active cadre from KYKL identified as Leishangthem Arun alias Chingjao (36), of Khurai Saroj Leikai taking part in the surrender drama, Yaiphaba clarified that Chingjao is one such person who abandoned the cause years ago because he did not want to give his life in order to further the cause.
The secretary then clarified that his (Chingjao) name had already been crossed off the army list for the MYL, KYKL.
This has made it more than clear that what the state government is doing is pure drama, but extremely venomous drama, Yaiphaba maintained.
To ensure continuation of existence as a people, there is no other choice than to fight against Indian colonialism and free the nation from the colonial rulers, Yaiphaba affirmed and appealed to the people of Kangleipak not to buy into the ideologies promoted by the state and central governments but to keep an open mind.