"United we survive, divided we perish"-II
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 24 2016: "We have entered an age where we cannot but see things collectively, in our future historical development.

This sole aspect of our collective vision UNLF had always placed before the indigenous communities of the region.

So the collective of indigenous people who are suffering the alien subjugation should, instead of fighting for independence of separate communities, should struggle together for our collective freedom in order to defeat the colonial power", continued the Central Committee.

This very struggle is necessitated by the objective conditions of the true realities of the region.

In order to achieve victory, there is a need to build up the 'Regional Unity Thesis' collectively.All the people of WESEA should altogether have a collective struggle on the path of self-determination which should be true to the soil of the region, with sheer respect to the culture and traditions of the communities.

Unfortunately, when some of the groups which found their individual struggle against the stronger force of Indian regime tough, opted for "peace-talks" and "SoO" .

With their ethno-exclusive outlooks, they compromised their earlier stance of sovereignty and independence to gain some petty political and administrative privileges which causes more squabbles amongst the ethnic brethren.

Not only this hampers the progress of "Our United Struggle", but this also makes a "heyday" of the enemy's divide and rule.

With the overwhelming enemy propaganda, the common people are thrown into confusion and disappointment, with their confidence in the independence struggle waning.

In this situation, some sections amongst the Meiteis who have been taking major historical responsibility in paving a composite history of the thousands of year old Manipuri nation are beginning to waver; lacking courage and self-confidence to face the challenge of time.

The worries and anxieties of these sections that the survival of the Meiteis is slim without the prop of some Articles of the Indian Constitution, thus seeking some Constitutional privileges is quite an irony as the ulterior motive of India is nothing but to assimilate Manipur.

Since Manipur became an alleged colony of India, there had been a non-stopping influx of outsiders which had become a demographic and economic threat to the existence of the indigenous peoples.

This syndrome is affecting not only Manipur but the whole Western South East Asia (WESEA).

This has become a matter of life and death for all the indigenous peoples of the region, as the distinct identities, culture and racial origin can not survive, let alone develop if the region remains subjugated under Indian rule.

Keeping the region under socio-political and economic suppression, India is pursuing a hidden agenda of racial assimilation process in the region by giving permanent citizenship to all the influx populations from within India as well as from the neighbouring countries so that the region can be a part and parcel of India forever.

To realize this, with their "Hindutva dream", the Hindu chauvinist BJP Govt.in Delhi is preparing to floor "Citizenship Amendment Bill � 2016" in Indian Parliament to naturalize all the influx in the region from within India and abroad having the same racial and religious affinity with mainland Indians.

This clearly proves that within Indian system, the indigenous peoples of the region with their small populations cannot safeguard their ethnic identities and survive.

This is the same life and death situation faced by all the indigenous peoples of Western South East Asia, continued the Central Committee.

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