Bid to befool mass, says UNLF
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 23 2014 :
Reacting to Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs Sambhu Singh's call to the insurgent groups of the North East to lay down arms and join the Indian mainstream, the proscribed UNLF has asserted that the statement smacked of an intention to project WESEA's revolutionary movements for right to self determination in a wrong light while concealing all the repressive measures unleashed by the Government of India in the region.
A statement issued by the outfit's Senior Publicity Officer Ksh Yoiheiba said that GoI has been knowingly or unknowingly overlooking the fact that forced annexation of Manipur into the Indian Union is the root cause of the present India-Manipur conflict.
For the past many decades, India has been plotting to exterminate all the people of WESEA who are different from mainland Indians in all respects.
The region is literally kept under military rule by imposing such draconian laws as AFSPA.
Even as some short sighted armed groups who cannot envision a collective future have been entrapped by SoO pacts and 'peace talks', the determination to fight the alien rule collectively is becoming clearer and clearer among revolutionary groups of WESEA, claimed the outfit.
Meanwhile, racial discrimination, assault, rape and murder of people from WESEA in different parts of mainland India have been going on for quite a long time.
These incidents have opened people's eyes and sense of unity among people of WESEA has been strengthened.
With the exposure of the racial imperialism allegedly propounded by India, the region's revolutionary movement is gaining momentum.
These revolutionary movements can never be suppressed how strong India may be militarily.
The same fact has been already accepted by former Home Minister P Chidambaram and GK Pillai.
At the same time, India has no answer to the UNLF's proposal for plebiscite which is the most peaceful and democratic means of resolving the political conflict despite claiming itself to be a democratic country.
Joint Secretary Sambhu Singh's statement only exposed GoI's arrogance and its intention to suppress the region with its military might.
It was an attempt to befool the mass and it should be responded by a collective liberation movement, it asserted.