NE rebel groups call total shut down on Aug 15
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 11 2020:
Apart from banning India's Independence Day celebrations in WESEA, six rebel groups namely KYKL, KCP, HNLC, KLO, NLFT and PDCK have called a total shut down in the entire region from 6 am to 5 pm of August 15.A joint statement issued by the six rebel groups asserted that the very foundation of present India is structurally fragile and armed forces are the only reliable bedrock.
This reality is manifested in the dominance of regional parties in more than 10 Indian States.
The Congress Party could not surmount the rise of regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s, and later, it learnt to live with them.
Even the so-called invincible juggernaut of BJP cannot make a dent in the popularity of many regional parties, it remarked.
WESEA is a unique case in the totality of India.
The peripheral rimlands are different from heartland India.
WESEA is more different.
"Wesean people's craze for ruling political party of India is not a result of our emotional integration with mainland India.
It is a product of the total economic dependence of WESEA on mainland India, which is the end-result of 70 years of planned machinations of military subjugation, political domination, economic emasculation, social dislocation, moral putrefaction, infantilization and dehumanization", it alleged.
"Our reality is irrational.
No human group can live and survive in the manner we live now.
The degree of dependence we are surviving with is not natural for human beings.
If it continues, our collective death is inevitable.
If we are to survive and prosper, we must do away with this unnatural variety of economy prevailing in our region.
This is the basic foundation to build up our National freedom movement on", it continued.
The proposition that WESEA's association with India pushed all the people of the region to hell, is proven to be politically correct beyond all doubt by the recent happenings during the COVID-19 pandemic in the major metropolitan cities of India.
People from WESEA were racially discriminated, spat upon, driven out of rented houses, refused to shop, to get medical treatment etc.
Such acts were done, not by uneducated urchins, but by educated middle-aged, middle-class people.
Racial discrimination against the Mongoloid-looking people of WESEA has been prevalent for a long time in mainland India, said the rebel groups.
"But we are compelled to continue to bear the unbearable racial discrimination, as we are starved of employment and other opportunities in our own homelands.
Our helplessness conditions us to be inured to such discrimination, as low caste Indians willingly accept inhuman oppression as the fruits of their own Karma", the rebel groups alleged.
"The heartland Indians cannot accept us, Mongoloids, as their own.
In their eyes, we are not more than another Nido Tania.
Our land is, they claim, an integral part of their cherished Mother India, but our peoples are not a part of their 'imagined community' .
So, there is no plausible ground for us, Weseans, to celebrate the Independence Day of their Motherland", they continued.
WESEA is under alien occupation and resistance is the only natural response to it, they added.
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