RPF advocates united vision and collective struggle-I
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 24 2016:
Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) president Irengbam Chaoren has categorically stated that each and every community in Manipur must today forbid sectional assertions for the larger cause of liberation which is possible only with a united struggle.
A united vision and a collective struggle shall only bring a lasting peace and progress.
"We must recall the pre-colonial collective existential relations of peoples in the past that gradually formed a Manipuri identity; of people and its territoriality, known to the neighbouring countries and the world.
The attempt to break up the historicity of Manipur has suddenly become a challenge to our quest for freedom with evident instigation from the Government of India", said a statement issued by the rebel leader on the occasion of the 38th raising day of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of RPF.
While conveying deepest respects to all the people of Manipur, Irengbam Chaoren also offered revolutionary salute to all the 'heroes' who have laid down their precious lives in the course of the revolutionary movement.
"Our people must recall the pre-colonial collective existential relations of peoples in the past that gradually formed a Manipuri identity; of people and its territoriality, known to the neighbouring countries and the world" .
The attempt to break up the historicity of Manipur has suddenly become a challenge to the quest for freedom with evident instigation from the Government of India.
The people of Manipur or for that matter any such society who are in the journey of its liberation must not fall prey to the inventions of the alleged colonial India, said the outfit.
The people of Manipur have been reeling under lingering crises without apparent hopes of ever redeeming themselves.
The time has come for the people to question the pertinence of the miseries and understand those forces which are behind in designing these miseries, added the statement.
Everyday atrocious experiences of the people of Manipur are not merely a product of Government of Manipur but a result of the deeper conspiracy and making of the Government at New Delhi.
The actual force of oppression is the New Delhi Government which puppeteers the politics and governance in Manipur.
Unless the actual force of oppression is understood, the oppressed people of the land shall continue to fail in enhancing its struggle for liberation, further alleged Chaoren.
The onus of identifying the actual oppressor lies with the people and it should enable the people and their movement to arrive at purposeful stage of collective self-determination.
It is a known fact that in the name of democracy and its veil, there is a parallel militarism through which India's hegemony over Manipur is sustained overtime.
The veil of democracy and hegemony has been a constant challenge to the aspirations for freedom, added the rebel leader.
The strategies of hegemony have been attempting to cause maximum damage to the revolutionary struggles.
The resolute revolutionary unity is the only weapon to confront the menace of India's hegemony.
The growing solidarity and realisation on the part of several sections of Indians about the wrongful, illegal and unethical annexation of Manipur by India is an added advantage for the liberation of Manipur from India.
"Against the backdrop of the opportune historical consciousness about Manipur's rightful place in the league of independent Nation-States, we must strive to harness our collective revolutionary unity to regain the lost freedom of Manipur", Chaoren asserted.
Liberation of a nationality materialises not in a vacuum, but in a historical lineage.
Materials such as that of historicity, culture, political and economy constitute the body of a Nationality.
The case of Manipur is not an exception in this regard.
A liberation struggle which comes as an anti-colonial movement locates its political objective in the uncompromising love for freedom and collective equality as the highest form of political justice.
Therefore, achieving self-d6-termination is the core of just resolution of revolutionary liberation movement, added the outfit's leader.
With a long drawn history of being colonised by India, it is often pertinent to witness packages of implanted culture, economy and indoctrination of colonial values to derail the genuine aspirations for freedom.
The displacement of people from their indigenous value systems and knowledge forms have happened which in turn produced antagonising inter-community relation and weakening of symbiotic existential worlds in Manipur.
The growing weakening of inter-community relations and dependency on New Delhi, favour seeking-behaviour, institutionalisation of corruption, urge for quotas and reservation are the consequences of India's alleged annexation and prolonged occupation of Manipur, read the statement.
India has more than 34 lacs drug abusers with more than 25 lac deaths in the last 10 years.
According to National Crime Records Bureau, India recorded at least 39,088 cases of crime against women.
In the recent past, India's criminality seem to have struck the people of Manipur with an apparent growth in the crimes against women which otherwise is altogether a new phenomenon.
The story of drug abuse in Manipur has been a handiwork of India with evident involvement of security officials as drug cartels in the North East India, alleged Chaoren.
"The time is ripe to be cautious of India's hidden strategy to dismantle the valuable pillars of our nationality - the youth and students -from its colonial nib in the bud design," Chaoren asserted.
The design comes as a part of India's warfare against the people of Manipur through its malicious manipulations of several types such as ideological indoctrination of youth, alienation from knowing the realities, commodification of education, deprivation of educational rights, encouragement of anti-social forces, qualitative decline in the role of youth due to parasitic consciousness and finally misrule of the society.
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