Highlight repressive steps of GoI : PREPAK
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 16 2013:
The proscribed PREPAK has called upon the people of Manipur (Kangleipak) to highlight the repressive measures unleashed by the Government of India and crimes committed by the Indian military in Manipur to the international community.
A statement issued by the outfit's publicity and propaganda secretary Leibakngakpa Luwang on the occasion of International Justice Day (July17) alleged that alien rule has been unceasingly committing genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression upon the people of Manipur in spite of the International Criminal Court's prohibition.
As stated by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the ruling political class of New Delhi, their 'puppet rulers' of the State and their security forces would someday certainly stand on the dock of a tribunal set up by the UN Security Council for rapes, engineering involuntary disappearance of people and killing civilians in fake encounters.
Greeting all the people including the people of Manipur enduring repressive measures of internal or external powers, the outfit asserted that the International Justice Day assumes greater significance in view of the trial and punishment of some former military and political leaders by international criminal tribunals for committing genocide.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced former Rwanda Prime Minister Jean Kambanda for killing around eight lakh people in 1994.Again the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia imprisoned former Yugoslavia President Slobadan Milosevic on February 12, 2006 for the crimes he committed against ethnic Albanians of Kosovo.
Most recently, Jamaat-e-Islami supremo Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in prison for the war crimes committed against the people of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh war of independence (1971) by the International Criminal Tribunal-I on July 15, 2013 .
An International War Crimes Court has sentenced former Liberia President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for abetting rebels/terrorists kill thousands of people in the Sierra Leone civil war.
Congo national liberation leader Thomas Lubango Dyilo was awarded 14 years jail term by the International Criminal Court on July 10, 2012 for committing war crimes and recruiting boys below 15 years of age to his combat force.
In this way, since the ICC was set up and became a permanent organ of the UN, as stated by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, it has sent a strong message to rogue political and military leaders who were/are heading colonial regimes across the world.
The world has come to such a stage that the international body can check genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression irrespective of the degree of power wielded by the perpetrators, the outfit remarked.