RPF President Irengbam Chaoren greets People on occasion 38th Raising Day of PLA
Source: IT news
Imphal, September 24 2016:
President of
proscribed Revolutionary Peoples'Front (RPF), Irengbam Chaoren greets
the region on occasion of the 38th Raising Day of its armed wing
Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) which is celebrating tomorrow .
The
outfit's president who hardly came to the media limelight in his message
deliberated the complex issues haunting the region , particularly the
state of Manipur.
Chaoren also convey his deepest respect to the people
of the region and also paid revolutionary salute to all fighters who
laid down their lives in the course of the revolutionary movement.
The
RPF President in his message stated that the people of Manipur have
been reeling under lingering crises without apparent hopes to come
out. "The time has come for us to question the pertinence of
the miseries and understand those forces who are behind in the designing
of our miseries", the statement said.
The RPF president said
the kind of atrocious experiences of the people of Manipur everyday are
not merely a product of Government of Manipur but a result of the deeper
conspiracy and making of the New Delhi government.
Stating that the
actual force of oppression is the New Delhi government which puppeteers
the politics and governance in Manipur, the RPF president called on the
people to understand the oppressors. The statement said that in
the name of democracy and its veil, there is a parallel militarism
through which India's hegemony over Manipur is sustained overtime.
The
veil of democracy and hegemony is term as a constant challenge to the
aspirations of freedom.
The statement further said that the
strategies of hegemony have been attempting to cause maximum damage to
our revolutionary struggles.
Resolute revolutionary unity is the only
weapon to confront the menace of India's hegemony.
The growing
solidarity and realisation on the part of several sections of Indians
about the wrongful, illegal and unethical annexation of Manipur by India
is an added advantage for the liberation of Manipur from India.
Against
the backdrop of the opportune historical consciousness about
Manipur's rightful place in the league of independent nation-states, we
must strive to harness with our collective revolutionary unity to re-
regain the lost freedom of Manipur.
Liberation of a nationality
materialises not in a vacuum, but in a historical lineage.
Materials
such as that of historicity, culture, political and economy constitute
the body of a nationality.
The case of Manipur is not an exception in
this regard.
Therefore, the struggling nationalities of the world for
their self-determination are a natural phenomenon and a rightful claim.
A
liberation struggle which come as an anti-colonial movement locates its
political objective in the uncompromising love for freedom and
collective equality as the highest form of political justice.
Therefore,
achieving self-determination is the core of just resolution of
revolutionary liberation movement.
With a long drawn history of being
colonised by India, it is often pertinent to witness packages of
implanted culture, economy and indoctrination of colonial values to
defunct the genuine aspirations for freedom.
The displacement of people
from their indigenous value systems and knowledge forms have happened
which in turn produced antagonising intercommunity relation and
weakening of symbiotic existential worlds in Manipur.
The growing
weakening of inter-community relations, of being dependent on New Delhi,
favour seeking behaviour, institutionalisation of corruption, urge for
quotas and reservation are the consequences of India's annexation and
prolonged occupation of Manipur.
India has more than 34 lacs of drug abusers with more than 25 lacs
death in the last 10 years.
According to National Crime Records Bureau,
India recorded at least 39,088 cases of crime against women.
In the
recent past, India's criminality seem to have struck upon the people of
Manipur with an apparent growth in the crime against women which
otherwise is an altogether a new phenomenon.
The story of drug abuse in
Manipur has been a handiwork of India with evident involvement of
security officials as drug cartels in the northeast India.
The
design comes as a part of India's warfare against the people of Manipur
through its malicious manipulations of several types such as ideological
indoctrination of youths, alienation from knowing the realities,
commodification of education, deprivation of educational rights,
encouragement of anti-social forces, qualitative decline in the role of
youths due to parasitic consciousness and finally misrule of the
society.
The colonial education systems imposed upon the people of
Manipur have only produced parasitic and dependent psychology.
This has
in turn led to engineering of local puppets who simply follow the
dictates of New Delhi.
Such colonial education systems have come to play
the role of a brainwashing machine.
The machine engineers serfdom of a
unique kind who ultimately plays the role of delegated ruling class that
acts only according to the whims of the coloniser India.
Manipur has
today descended into such a level of being colonised with subsequent
downfall of its socio-economic and political fabric.
The
commodification of education and knowledge patterns have utterly
alienated the masses from acquiring a democratic rightful education.
The
darker side of commodification is the wholesome ruining of public
educational institutions and collective failure which have led to
systematic exodus of students, displacement of youths from their
homelands, unemployments and severe colonial brain-drain.
In other
words, capitalist commodification of education and knowledge has
systematically deprived the poor section of the society from acquiring
basic education and rightful processes of learning.
Today, education is
privileged system which the rich and 'haves' consider as their sole
prerogative.
In this way, we have come to a historical stage of
inequality and class based deprivation.
Education of a commoditized kind
has only produced degree-based learning and knowledge forms that
degrade social and politics ethics.
The colonial education, therefore,
needs to be overhauled so that the youths and new generation could have
an experience of learning their realities which in turn would instil a
love for their lived-worlds, a love for their nationality. The
idea and practice of self-determination shall be possible when such a
state of knowledge possibility is ensured.
On the other hand, the
onus lies with the oppressed people of Manipur to actually understand
that India has been conspiring to dismantle the self-sufficient economic
traditions of Manipur by implanting its propagandist post-colonial
developmentalism.
India's developmentalism has only sustained a false
economic consciousness amongst the struggling peoples since it has tried
to legitimise a sense of being unable to survive without external
support and funding mechanism which India calls 'grant-in-aid' economic
system.
The false economic premise has ruined the fertile arable
lands and resources of Manipur while increasingly making Manipur a
dependent economy for subsistence and food-stocks.
The economic
depression of Manipur has been used as an opportune moment for
consolidation of India's colonialism over Manipur.
Grant-in-aid economy
has dismantled the economic calibre of the Manipuris by making them a
sterile collective in terms of labour and self-sustenance.
One of the
ways to come out of such a situation of sterility is to inculcate a work
culture.
A collective work culture shall be at an enhanced stage only
when there are working class including peasant organisations at
grassroots.
The working class movement shall also be a democratic answer
to the sectarian and ethnic politics while at the same time there will
be movement towards increased production and economic self-reliance.
This is an answer and means to stop neoliberal colonialisation of
Manipur.
Neo-liberalism is a capitalist proposition that aims at
nonegalitarian social systems in the name of competitive market and
development.
Neoliberalism encourages domination by a rich few where
progress and development of the poor is impossible.
The sustenance of
inequality and domination come a logical method for neo-liberal
subjugation and deprivation of people.
The neo-liberal economic
policies, implanting of secret agencies, encouragement of the influx of
foreign population, supplanting of local products by goods from outside
and exploitation of natural resources with disastrous economic
deprivation and environmental problems are all symptoms of being a
colonialized society.
Such conspiring policy of India has produced
puppet ruling class who are nothing more than a temporal element.
However, the oppressed people of Manipur must understand to come out of
such a reality bestowed upon them colonially.
Each and every community
in Manipur must today forbid sectional assertions for a larger cause of
liberation which is possible only with a united struggle.
A united
vision and a collective struggle shall only bring a lasting peace and
progress.
We must recall the pre-colonial collective existential
relations of peoples in the past that gradually formed a Manipuri
identity; of people and its territoriality, known to the neighbouring
countries and the world.
The attempt to break up the historicity of
Manipur has suddenly become a challenge to our quest for freedom with
evident instigation from the government of India.
The people of Manipur
or for that matter any such society who are in the journey of its
liberation must not fall prey to the inventions of colonial India.
In
the absence of a free and self-regulative Manipuri society, the
influence of the coloniser India has grown ever more only to
essentialise colonial diplomacy and geo-political scramble.
The danger
of colonial geopolitics is such that the much hyped Look East Policy has
been used as an occasion to induce India's geo-political game plan to
encounter the rise and presence of China in the Asia.
Militarisation,
AFSPA and counter-insurgency diplomacy are the hallmarks of India's
colonial diplomacy in the region.
The northeast, which is actually a
part of the South East Asian World, has become a site of colonial
India's military installation platform and a security bastion.
Reflective of its geo-political strategy, India has ventured into
weakening China by an overt appeasing of Tibetian movement and
militaristic policy such as the formation of Special Frontier Force.
However, the same respect for the liberation of WESEA region or Kashmir
has not come forth.
The colonial double standard of India has been even
clear with its self-conflicting sloganeering for human rights issues in
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Baluchistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Sri Lanka on the
one hand.
India is equally involved in unleashing human rights
violations in WESEA region and Kashmir.
Last but not the least, with the
growing solidarity and support of international community, the
struggling oppressed people of Manipur must make a historical move to
liberate itself from the colonial yoke of India.
A united and collective
struggle of the oppressed people in the state of Manipur in particular
and WESEA in general can bring about a complete revolution.