Imphal, April 26: Contd from previous issue .

These elements take the name of a faction of an underground outfit but stay together with the Indian Army, asserted Achou and added that they also try to enforce their quota at the time of any recruitment drive taken up by the Government.

Their ultimate aim is nothing but to earn money for their personal gains.

The people have started to view the revolutionaries in the same line with these elements, because of the erosion in the values of the revolutionaries, Achou observed and added that today there is no difference between the fakes and the genuine revolutionaries in the eyes of the public.

This is because the revolutionary outfits failed to see the importance of moulding the character of the cadres as well as their helpers.

It is the fruit of the loopholes of the past.

The KYKL leader further said that the emergence of ethnic armed groups is a direct fall out of the trend of earning in the name of the revolutionary movement.

At one time when there was ethnic strife, the need to set up armed groups along ethnic line was felt to protect their own people.

However today this is no longer so and such armed groups are formed just to earn some easy money, the KYKL chairman.

Extorting money from other ethnic group or community is more convenient for such ethnic based groups, for the burden does not fall on their people.

The divide and rule policy of the Indian Government has helped this trend to flourish.

The propaganda that the smaller communities are suffering because the lion's share of the benefits have been taken by the Meiteis has also helped such groups in their agenda, said Achou and added that such policy of sowing the seeds of distrust and animosity amongst the different communities is a craft practised by the Hindu Aryan since the time of Chanakya.

Not realising is our weakness, said Achou.

The excesses as well as mass killings perpetrated by the Indian security force is not surprising as they are the alien rulers out to subdue the armed movement, said the rebel leader.

On the other hand the excesses committed by the local police is nothing but to please their master, said Achou and added that this is not surprising.

The rebel leader also candidly stated that not many would have shed tears whenever the police kill any suspects, because of the conduct of some errant revolutionaries.

To save the land from the precarious conditions it finds itself in today, it is important for each one of us to do one's duty sincerely and honestly, said Achou.

The first step is the people and the civil society to try and save the people and the land.

The notion that the revolutionary organisations should correct all the wrongs in the society is a wrong concept, said Achou and added that the public should bear the bigger responsibility.

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