Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 08:
Greeting the people on the eve of its 29th raising day, Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, N Nongdren today said that time has come for all to understand and realise that it no longer pays to indulge in game blame.
In a statement the VC of the outfit said that in its history Manipur has been under the rule of outsiders for three times with the current one being under India.
To achieve the goal of sovereignty and to defeat the outsiders, what is needed is a National Revolutionary War, said the PREPAK leader and added that the only way to achieve is to forge unity amongst the revolutionary outfits.
Unity of the different people and community coupled with strict discipline and a high revolutionary ideal is the need of the hour, said the outfit and added that self centred ideas should be discarded and the struggle should be launched under a common policy.
It is only through unity that the ultimate goal can be achieved.
To promote unity and the oneness of the people, the Constitution of PREPAK recognises 33 Nationalities, said the statement and added that the indigenous people of the land are all brethrens of PREPAK.
The outfit will try to uphold this principle and has been doing so.
Urging the people to be wary of the policies of the Indian Government to dilute their identity, the PREPAK leader said that since 1949, numerous policies have been enforced to wipe out the people of Manipur.
One such policy is the huge influx of outsiders into Manipur who have come in waves, said PREPAK.
On the other hand to dwarf the indigenous population, the Indian Government has been propagating Family Planning, said the outfit.
It is time for the people to realise that under the birth control policy of the Indian Government, the population of the indigenous people have been stunted by 60 percent, observed Nongdren.
On the other hand, outsiders have been clandestinely coming into Manipur from the four corners at the rate of 1.5 to 2 pc of the population of Manipur annually, said the outfit.
Citing an example, Nongdren said that the 2001 Census put the population of India at 23 lakhs while unofficially it was 24 lakhs.
Out of this the strength of the outsiders is 7 lakhs, which is about 30 pc of the total population, he said.
Referring to the policies adopted by the Indonesian Government to quell the freedom movement in East Timor, which has since become an independent entity, Nongdren said that Indonesia forcefully sterilised the young people of East Timor so that they could not bear any issue.
Under a programme charted out every five years, Indonesia, with the knowledge or without the knowledge of the women of East Timor performed birth control operations, said the PREPAK VC.
Depo Provera, a birth control drug which has been banned in many countries were forcefully administered to the women of East Timor including students, he added.
On top of this a large number of Indonesians were made to settle at East Timor to dilute the population of the indigenous Timorese.
For the birth control programme Indonesia president Suharto was given an award in 1989.In the process outsiders accounted for 20 pc of the population of East Timor.(More tomorrow).