UNLF denounces Indian Ambassador's remark
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 29 2013:
United National Liberation Front (UNLF) has decried the remarks of Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Gautam Mukhopadhyaya who said that 'The Shija Hospital's visit to Myanmar would go a long way in changing the Myanmarese people's notion of Manipuris being very hostile" as cruel and sarcastic.
In a statement issued by its Senior Publicity Secretary Ksh Yoiheiba, the proscribed outfit asserted that the intention of Gautam to create a bad blood in the minds of the people of both Mynamar and Manipur is very transparent.
"Time and again, the Indian Government and its agents are trying in every possible way to put the Manipuris in bad light as well to put its relation with its immediate neighbouring nation strained; so that the freedom struggle of Manipuris against the Indian occupation gets no sympathy and support from the neighouring nations.
All the while, India is sacrificing the land and the interest of Manipuri people, to keep Indian interest intake", Yoiheiba said, adding that 'What the India Ambassador intentionally did forget is that historically Manipur has closer affinity to its South East Asian neighbours racially, culturally and socially; and enjoyed good relations with them although there were skirmishes at times" .
"Gautam Mukhopadhyaya's sarcastic pun is in bad taste as all the neighbouring nations know the colonial and hegemonic designs of India very well.
Though India gained its freedom after a long and hard fought struggle against the British; it immediately assumed the role of colonial power in the region and annexed smaller Western South Asian kingdoms (called North East by India), some treacherously and some forcibly.
The Indian colonialism showed its true colour when militarily it invaded and annexed Goa in 1961; even the UN condemned the Indian military action.
In the same pattern, the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim was annexed treacherously in 1975.And now, the sovereignty and independence of the small neighbouring nations like Nepal and Bhutan are at stake as they are landlocked and the hegemonic India threatens to block its nearest and only passage to the sea at the slightest reason, and thereby keeping them under its dictates.
Therefore, India bullying around the region with a very transparent regional expansionist policy is the real aggressor to the existence of all the smaller neighbouring nations.
Hence, the cynical remarks of the Indian Ambassador cannot dampen the spirit of friendliness and co-operation between the two neighbours as both the people of Manipur and Myanmar are well aware of India's dubious intention", the UNLF statement added.