Can SC's judgement stop fake encounters, asks RPF-1
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, April 12 2013 : Questioning the guarantee of the judgment given by Supreme Court over fake encounters killings in Manipur, the proscribed UG group, Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) asked whether it could ensure no more fake encounters in the state.

In a statement signed by its Secretary Publicity Roben Khuman, RPF noted that the Supreme Court ordered an enquiry into randomly selected six cases out of numerous listed in the PIL filed jointly by Human Rights Alert and Extra Judicial Execution Victims Families Association.

After the inquiry committee submitted its report stating that all the six cases were indeed fake encounters, the Supreme Court has further ordered submission of inquiry reports of 36 more cases which have not been made public at all.

But the question is will the judgment of the Supreme Court be able to prevent further fake encounters in Manipur? What people want is not only justice to the victims but to stop such extra judicial killings in Manipur forever, RPF observed.

It went on to point out that human rights violation by Yugoslavian army in Bosnia and Herzegovina was exposed to the world after BBC reporters unearthed 400 bags of dead bodies which were dumped by Yugoslavian army in an abandoned railway tunnel.

All the dead bodies were of people who have been picked up by Yugoslavian army from their homes on mere suspicion, which is similar to the situation in Manipur.

If the victims of fake encounter in Manipur are filled in bags, the Indian army would need nearly 1528 bags.

In such a situation, one needs to find out the root cause of the extra judicial killings in the state.

It is well known that the political situation in Manipur is going backward instead of going forward in tune with time.

Even if revolutionary movement in the state began as early as 1970, the real and effective revolutionary movement participated by energetic youths began only after 1970.From 1978 onwards, the revolutionary organisations began armed warfare against the Indian army openly and began to challenge them.

This armed revolutionary movement became a headache for the Delhi Bandits and its puppet politicians in the state.

Because of this, the Delhi Bandits in discussion with the puppet government of Manipur began to push in large number of Indian army personnel in the state in an attempt to subdue the rising revolutionary movement.

The then India Government and its leader also copied the Armed Forces Ordinance 1942 of the British Empire, which was imposed in India to ensure its colonial rule, and renamed it as Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958.Then, the India government imposed the same Act to give the armed forces personnel the License to Kill in Manipur in 1980 when RK Dorendra was the Chief Ministe of Manipur.

Before the Act was imposed, the whole of Manipur was already declared as a Disturbed Area.

Even the British Empire, who framed the Act had cancelled it terming it to be a Draconian Law, but the Delhi Bandits fondly embraced the Act and preserved it only to impose in States like Manipur, which were forcefully annexed and were different from rest of India.

One need to find out why the Act has not been imposed in Maoists affected states of the mainland India like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh etc.

The only reason which prevents the India government from imposing the Act in these states is that the people of these states are their own.

Even a proposal of using para-military forces to subdue the revolutionary movement in these states would create chaos in the Parliament let alone the matter of imposing the Act, RPF observed.

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