UNLF vows to fight for integrity, freedom
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 26 2012:
Contd from previous issue .
Noting the profound changes brought about by the revolution in information and communication technology, the militant outfit stated that a digital generation had also emerged in Manipur.
The role of this generation for the sake of Manipur is huge.
One should use these technologies to attract global attention to the oppression faced by the people of Manipur.
The new generation should learn to love their own motherland, and the UNLF trusts that people should emerge who can contribute to Manipur's independence struggle.
Commenting on India's much hyped 'Look East Policy', the outfit remarked that it is still a wish list.
Its unstated, silent agenda is to suppress the freedom struggle, and to wean away the people to a false dream, to disconnect the people from the revolutionary movement.
LEP has its negative and positive aspects.
Tourism encourages the people to be object of gaze and it does not help our people to be pro-active towards developmental endeavour.
The current tourism policy of India is only to use the natives for display of exotic life of indigenous people, but it does not help the indigenous people to design the growth and develop their own communities, and to share the fruits of global citizenship.
No local produce is encouraged in the current border trade.
India only wants to produce a chain of brothels around the highways, and increase the crime in the highways which we are experiencing on the National Highway 39, it alleged.
People of present North East India should orient their life world to emulate the positive aspects of Southeast Asians, become closer with them in matters of trade and commerce, health and education facilities.
"Their lives should become mirrors of our enslaved lives, and we should make ourselves free like them.
The mystic sages had given us the truth of closing the western door and opening of the eastern door.
To effect this truth, we need an overhauling of our enslaved system of dependency to India and fight for re-fashioning of our lives as true Southeast Asians", it asserted.
Three things are essential for the victory to the struggle for independence.
First, to enhance own peoples' strength second, India's own internal contradictions and third, to let the International community support the struggle.
"In order to build up the collective strength of our revolutionary groups the CORCOM has been consolidated, thanks to the collective efforts of each of the constituent groups in the coordination committee" .
"The step is to clearly understand the principles of our unity and to share the responsibilities of each and demarcate role and function of the constituent units.
One step shall lead to another into a progressive enhancement of the revolutionary movement, thereby incorporating in the national struggle all other indigenous groups, thereby signifying the collective strength of the multi-ethnic nationhood in the new struggle" .
The people of the valley shall initiate the historical transformation of their collective multi-ethnic revolution.
The Government of India is encouraging ethnic exclusivism to strike a wedge amongst the collective brotherhood of the indigenous communities.
People must fight this Indian policy of divide and rule and should follow the policy of mutual equality, parity of development benefits and respect for each other's culture and traditions and principles of self-governance.
"A re-structuring of our polity, economy and cultural undertakings are essential for us to share respective freedom for a common and prosperous future of our indigenous peoples.
Autonomy at all levels of indigenous life worlds should be our motto of co-existence," it asserted.
The internal contradictions within the Indian polity, the rise of provincialism and coalition governments and the desire to suppress revolutionary movements through the false charge of terrorism under the syndrome of repressive acts like the establishment of 'National Counter Terrorism Centre' had exposed the internal weakness of the so-called democratic polity of India.
Indian political system as applied to Manipur is rather to kill political leadership with vision and sense of dedication to the genuine development of the people.
The international communities' collective steps to bring India to book for their violation of human rights should be encouraged.
India had not been able to answer to the UN Human Rights Council since 2001 onwards.
Many treaty bodies of the UN system had taken to task India for their rampant violations of rights and their indifference to the protocols under the UN system.
The UNLF had put faith in authentic and deeper democracy and had put into discourse the subject of 'Manipur-India Conflict' and proposed the solution to the same by proposing in January 2005 the issue of a Plebiscite under UN principles and jurisdiction whether Manipur should belong to India or not.
The international community had recognized this proposal and it is a heartening gesture, it claimed.
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