GoI is the aggressor: RPF-II
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 08 2015:
India is a pseudo-democracy where the military is quite domineering and this was testified by the GoI's representation to its Supreme Court, the outfit alleged.
Rather than pulling up the rogue military personnel, GoI has been rewarding military personnel who executed the maximum number of civilians.
Although India is notorious for human rights violation, it has been running from pillar to another lobbying for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
UN General Assembly resolution no 1514(xv) "Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples" adopted on December 14, 1960 was a very significant resolution towards abolition of colonialism from the planet.
According to the resolution, all the people should have the right to self determination.
Any form of exploitation is not permitted.
Moreover, no foreign power has the authority to forfeit the freedom and distort the territorial boundary of any nation.
By signing the Common Article 3 of all the four Geneva Conventions on August 1, 1997, RPF pledged to abide by all the international rules of war.
However, GoI, in spite of claiming to be the biggest democracy in the world is still unable to abide by the international rules of war although it has ratified all the four Geneva Conventions.
It would not be correct for GoI to use terms like aggressors or terrorists against Manipuris.
Asking if there was any case of RPF going to any part of India and attacking its military forces or civilians, the outfit maintained that it has been only defending Manipuri people and their sovereignty in accordance to international rules from aggressor India.
The ongoing movement is a national liberation movement which has its roots to the annexation of Manipur by India.
The movement is a political campaign for restoring the right to self determination of Manipuri people.
UN Security Council resolution nos 183(1963) and 218(1965) legitimised the right to self determination.
Moreover, the International Court of Justice in its highly significant judgements passed in 1971 and 1975 endorsed the right to self determination.
UN General Assembly resolution no 2189(xx) adopted on December 13, 1966 and resolution no 2326 adopted on December 11, 1967 clearly laid down that no State force should be employed any group demanding their right to self determination.
At the same time, the UN General Assembly Declaration of 1970 authorised all nations/people demanding their right to self determination to use all available means to achieve the same right.
Denying right to self determination to any people/nation is a serious international crime which is nothing short of genocide.
Although India supports liberation movements being waged in different parts of the world, it has been projecting all liberation movements of WESEA as terrorism.
But the reality tells a very different story.
UN General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice and all other organs of the UN always rebuff terrorism.
At the same time, UN and all its organs always vindicate all legitimate national liberation movements.
Both the UN Covenants of 1966 resolved that all the oppressed people have the right to wage national liberation movements in order to achieve the ultimate objective of right to self determination.
GoI itself has admitted that the national liberation movement of Manipur is not a law and order problem.
The conflict between India and WESEA is an international conflict.
As such, all the revolutionary leaders and cadres currently imprisoned by India should be treated as prisoners of war (POW) in accordance to relevant international laws and conventions.
It is a bounden duty of the present generation to present an independent Manipur to the future generations, it concluded.
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