PREPAK blames GoI for appeasement policy
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, December 31 2013 : Greeting the 'suppressed' people of Kangleipak (Manipur) as well as revolutionary groups fighting for their rights across the world on the occasion of the New Year Day, the proscribed PREPAK has blamed India for following an appeasement policy with regard to its neighbouring countries in order to protect its own interests.

A statement issued by he outfit's publicity and propaganda assistant secretary LeibakNgakpa Luwang remarked that India showed serious concern when there is any encroachment from Pakistan and China into its western borders but it remained totally indifferent when there is encroachment from the neighbouring countries into Western South East Asia (WESEA), called the North East region by India.

India should give Manipur's exact territory that existed in 1949 as and when Manipur becomes independent.

India should accept the responsibility of protecting the territorial integrity of Manipur as well as identity of its indigenous people for Manipur was forcibly merged into the Indian Union in 1949, it alleged.

But it would be misplaced on the part of the people to put faith in India to protect the boundary of Manipur.

"As such, our people need to be alert and prepared to protect the territorial integrity of Manipur", it asserted.

People need to carry on a strong resistance movement against the alleged anti-people policies of India.

It further alleged that the GoI has been deliberately keeping NH 37 as an unpredictable and unreliable highway with an ulterior motive to harass the people of Manipur every now and then.

Indian military forces, by claiming themselves as 'friends of hill people' have been actively promoting GoI's divide and rule policy thereby sowing seeds of distrust between the hill people and plain people of Kangleipak.

Even a non-commissioned officer can shoot a 'suspect' in WESEA and Jammu and Kashmir but the same rule is not applicable in mainland India.

Even as Nura Temshingnabi Irom Sharmila has been crusading for the against AFSPA for the last 13 years, she is being charged for attempting to commit suicide.

Even as Amnesty International India has asked the Government of India to free Sharmila, New Delhi paid no heed.

Expressing serious concern over the increasing rate of crime against women and children, the outfit attributed it to cultural influence by mainland India.

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