India, WeSEA can never co-exist: PREPAK
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 25 2020:
The proscribed PREPAK has categorically stated that India and the people of WeSEA can never co-exist together.
From the very early period India and Kangleipak were quite different in terms of culture and physical appearance.
Even as the whole world has been reeling under severe hardships on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been numerous cases of racial discrimination of people from Kangleipak and WeSEA in several parts of India, the outfit noted.
Through a statement issued by its publicity and propaganda secretary-in-charge Leibaak Ngakpa Luwang on the occasion of the 7th 'Indian Colonialism Resist Day 2020', the outfit condoled all the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic and conveyed solidarity to all the COVID-19 patients who are currently undergoing treatment.
While Indian military forces have been committing genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression in Kangleipak which have been prohibited by the ICC, the Government of India has been misleading the international community by projecting the liberation movement of Kangleipak as an internal law and order problem of India, the outfit alleged.
All the people of Kangleipak need to work collectively to take the leaders of Government of India, the State Government and the security forces directly involved in committing in all kinds of atrocities to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or criminal tribunal set up by the UNSC, it said.
Mainland Indians have been subjecting people of WeSEA to all forms of racial discrimination and harassment.
Many young students have been murdered and many more young girls have been sexually assaulted in different parts of mainland India, it remarked.
The outfit went on to allege that mainland Indians do not share any empathy with the people of WeSEA, what they crave for are the territory and resources of the region.
India became a State party to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 1968 but it has not yet enacted any law which can effectively deal with racism in the country, it said.
Nonetheless, CERD has been monitoring what the signatory countries have/have been doing to curb racism in their respective countries.
The Government of India submitted its report to CERD only in 1996 and 2007.Since then, New Delhi is unable to submit any report, PREPAK said.
Subsequent upon the report submitted in 2007, CERD pointed out that AFSPA is a racist law and asked India to repeal it.
It then called upon all the people to raise the slogan 'Go back Indian military forces' collectively and grasp the opportunity to restore the lost sovereignty of Kangleipak.