Time to knock UN's door: PREPAK-I
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 25 2023:
PREPAK Interim Council, Red Army Chairman Aheiba Angom has asserted that it's time the people of Kangleipak knock the door of the United Nations and highlight their right to self-determination.
A statement issued by Aheiba Angom on the 43rd Red Army Uprising Day (March 26) conveyed solidarity to all the oppressed people who have been living under the tyranny of the alien rule.
It also extended best wishes to the revolutionary movements in the WESEA region and throughout the world.
Aheiba Angom conveyed gratitude and saluted all the revolutionary fraternal organizations which have been waging war of independence of Kangleipak and WESEA region and other parts of the world.
PREPAK and like-minded revolutionary groups of the WESEA region have been continuing the revolutionary movement for restoration of the independence of the erstwhile Kangleipak � an Asian sovereign State which remained a sovereign Nation for more than 2000 years before forcibly annexed to the Indian Dominion, the Chairman said.
The freedom struggle or the National liberation movement for the restoration of the lost independence of Kangleipak which has been going on since the time of Lamyanba Hijam Irabot, uninterruptedly, is being portrayed as a movement of some few people to the world.
The Government of India has been trying to mislead the world by portraying the legitimate National liberation movement of Kang- leipak as extremism or terrorism.
This act of India is an attempt to cover the fire with blanket, reads the statement.
The liberation movement being undertaken by the PREPAK is to restore the lost sovereignty of the erstwhile Kangleipak Nation that has been crippled under the boots of the Indian military.
The so called 'merger agreement' was made in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the international law.
The then king of Kangleipak was just a nominal head with no legitimate power to entertain any treaty.
Besides, there was neither any referendum nor plebiscite to get the assent of the people of Kangleipak, it said.
Noting that the present NDA Government of India, like the previous Governments, has been inviting the armed opposition groups in Kangleipak to lay down arms for peace talk in the name of bringing peace and security in the region, the outfit termed the same move as driven by a hidden agenda to portray the peace loving people of Kangleipak in the wrong light.
India should know the root cause of the Indo-Kangleipak conflict which rose from the alleged Indian annexation of Kangleipak on October 15, 1949 in clear violation of the international law.
Since then, the people of Kangleipak have been undertaking various forms of resistance movements of which the National liberation movement is the highest form to drive out the Indian military forces from the soil of Kangleipak and restore the lost sovereignty of Kangleipak, it said.
The Indian campaign in the international fora that there is no independent movement in the WESEA region has been outrightly rejected by the declaration of several armed opposition groups as outlawed organizations under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, it continued.
The proceedings of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) recommending India for a political resolution of the Indo-Kangleipak conflict has given recognition of the freedom movement in Kangleipak as a legitimate National liberation movement under the purview of the international law, Aheiba Angom claimed.