ASUK calls total shutdown on I-Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 12 2025:
The Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak (ASUK) too has called a total shutdown on August 15 (Independence Day) from 6 am to 6 pm.
But the total shutdown will not cover emergency services, fire services, electricity, water supply, medical services, religious functions and education related activities, according to a statement issued by ASUK Publicity Committee convenor S Mangal.
Some people have been saying that Manipur became a colony of India after the forced annexation of Manipur on October 15, 1949.People have been waging an armed liberation movement since 1953, it said.
Several revolutionary organisations, CSOs and many sections of people have been saying with proof and evidence that Manipur has been a colony of India for the past 72 years.
This assertion has been proven beyond doubt by the recent Kuki war.
After subjecting the people to sustained oppression with impunity guaranteed by AFSPA to the Indian armed forces, the Government of India incited communal conflict and violence.
The Government of India has been patronising a particular community which can field a proxy army obedient to the Indian army.
The Indian armed forces have been encouraging the particular community to raise their population by bringing their own people from across the border so that they can challenge other communities who have no established loyalty to India and have been waging sustained war of liberation, it alleged.
Even if Manipur survives, the indigenous people will be wiped out.
Extinction of the indigenous people means they (Indigenous) will lose their identity and culture and they will be assimilated among the Indians, it said.
If the indigenous peoples face extinction, Meiteis may be the first casualty.
Once Meiteis are wiped out or totally assimilated, Meitei Pangals, Nagas and Kukis will not be able to survive as distinct communities even for 20-30 years, it said.
When the British colonists left the Indian sub-continent, the sub-continent was divided into two countries viz; India and Pakistan.
At that time, there were more than 600 kingdoms and they were given the freedom to choose either India or Pakistan or live as independent Nations.
Even though some of these independent kingdoms joined India willingly, the vast majority were annexed by India through coercion, deception or by using sheer military force, it said.
India is a country where its heartland Hindi-speaking people are colonizing Kashmir, Punjab, South India, East India and North East India, it alleged.
India adopted an expansionist policy and it has been an imperialist country since its birth.
Alleging that RSS/BJP is driven by a fascist ideology and it has been dreaming of an Akhand Bharat encompassing Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Afghanistan and Tibet, ASUK remarked that this ideology is reactionary in the contemporary period.
Even as RSS/BJP is unable to form an Akhand Bharat, it has accelerated the pace of decimating the indigenous peoples, it alleged.
Colonization of a Nation is divided into two phases--colonization of the body and colonization of the mind.
Once the colonization of the mind is completed, the colonized people develop inferiority complex, become lazy and inactive.
Thus they are dehumanised.
There are two therapies to once again humanize a dehumanised Nation.
One is through anti-colonial violence as advocated by Franz Fanon (1925-1961) and second one is through non-violence method as espoused by MK Gandhi (1869-1948) .
Once the dehumanized people are humanized again, their oppressed consciousness will reach the level of liberated consciousness.
"Therefore our foremost task is to bring liberated consciousness among our people.
For this, we must either engage in anti-colonial violence or passive resistance or both.
This will open our eyes to our reality, the reality of colonial rule and the reality of the world", ASUK said.
"Joining the Indian Independence Day celebration is walking away from reality and deceiving ourselves.
Staying away from the Indian Independence Day celebration is a form of passive resistance, recalling our history and an effort to bring liberated consciousness", it said.
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