Outfits share thought on raising day; Beware of assimilation policy : PREPAK (Pro)
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 08 2015: The proscribed PREPAK (Pro) has warned all the indigenous communities of Kangleipak (Manipur) against the Government of India's alleged assimilation policy and migration war.

Conveying deepest regards to all the countrymen, revolutionary leaders/cadres and all those people who have been killed in the course of the revolutionary movement on the occasion of the Red Army's 39th raising day, the outfit's chairman L Paliba M asserted that Kangleipak (Manipur) is the 'promised land' for all the indigenous ethnic groups of the land.

To protect the 'promised land' is the responsibility of all the indigenous people.

All ethnic based movements should be tackled collectively with the collective history of the land.

It's time for all the scholars and intellectuals to come forward and show the right path to all those people pursuing narrow, parochial agenda.

A statement issued by the Chairman questioned whether the ethnicity based movements can withstand the Government of India's assimilation policy and migration war.

He also questioned whether ethno- exclusive aspirations are feasible given the geographical position of the land.

Only the correct interpretation of history and a common vision can bring about lasting peace, the Chairman asserted.

Kangleipak which was a sovereign nation for thousands of years is now under foreign occupation.

It was proselytization into foreign religions which sowed the seeds of distrust and animosity among the indigenous communities of the land.

Even today, majority of the people are unable to free themselves from the grip of religious shackles and their malicious doctrines.

It were proselytization into foreign religions and misplaced policies of some elites which landed both the hill people and plain people in deep troubles.

The blunders committed by past generations following indoctrination by foreign religions should not be used as a political tool for it would only exacerbate inter-community conflicts, Paliba said.

Reduction of Manipur to the status of a Part C State after it was forcibly merged into the Indian Union followed by years of subjugation by keeping Manipur as a Union Territory which was granted Statehood after 22 years of long struggle testified that the Indian leaders have a diabolic intention to suppress and exterminate the people of Kangleipak from the very beginning, it alleged.

Even today the Government of India has been conspiring to create multiple layers of socio-political divisions by encouraging separate administrative units for Nagas and Kukis.

At the same time, New Delhi has been scheming to overhaul the demographic profile of Manipur by encouraging mass exodus of Indian people to the tiny Manipur valley.

Now, Indian traders have totally monopolised the State's main markets.

The situation demands multi-faceted struggles to ensure survival, safeguard territorial integrity and protect the indigenous people, asserted the rebel leader.

In line with its Act East Policy, Government of India would devising many strategies to exploit natural resources of the land without any restraint in the name of development/modernization.

Under such circumstances, indigenous people would lose all their rights over the natural resources of the land.

With agricultural land shrinking day by day, Kangleipak is no longer self-reliant in terms of food grains.

When there is no food security, the society's future is rather grim.

During the past 65 years, indigenous people of the land have undergone drastic changes in terms of their way of living, culture, social discipline, religious practices and identity.

If these changes are not checked in time, there is no guarantee that all the indigenous people of the land would be gobbled up completely by the Government of India's assimilation campaign.

Already, many small communities have disappeared as a result of the same assimilation policy.

As long as Kangleipak remains under the Government of India, no people irrespective of whether they to belong to General or ST or SC, there is no chance of ever progressing and leading a dignified life because 'we are not Indians' .

"There is no historical legitimacy to claim that we are Indians", asserted the rebel leader.

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