CorCom pays rich tributes to Haipou Jadonang
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 27 2013: The CorCom has offered tributes to Haipou Jadonang on the occasion of his 82nd death anniversary (August 29).August 29 would always remain a red letter day in the history of Manipur for it was on August 29 that Haipou Jadonang was hung to death.

Jadonang was the third and youngest son of Thiudai Malangmei and Tabonliu.

He was bom in Kambiron village, Tamenglong district in 1905 .

After the defeat of Manipur in 1891, British rulers hung and executed many sons of the soil.

It was the British rulers who enacted laws, passed judgement and acted as executioners.

Repeated confrontation between the indigenous people and British rulers against their policy of imperialism still serves as a valuable lesson for the present day liberation movement, the committee said in a press release issued by its media coordinator H Poirei.

Jadonang is one of the brave heroes of Manipur and by the time he matured as a man, he could understand very well the repressive and suppressive measures unleashed by British colonial rulers against the people of both the hills and valley of Manipur.

He could also see very well the colonial policy aimed at obliterating and destroying culture, traditions and customs of Zeliangrong community by using the cloak of Christian missionaries.

Having understood all these malicious colonial policies, Jadonang started mobilising people and launched a liberation movement.

The British rulers prohibited Jadonang from developing a new religious faith of the Zeliangrong community.

He was also banned to communicate and take orders from Tingkao Ragwang.

Nor was he allowed to observe the revolutionary movements taking place in different parts of India and beyond.

Very soon, the British rulers realised that Jadonang was becoming a 'mystic visionaire' for Zeliangrong people and he was collecting weapons to wage war in addition to asking people not pay tax to the British rulers.

The news of Jadonang's anti-colonial movement soon spread to other communities and British rulers were afraid that a strong liberation movement would be launched against them under the leadership of Jadonang.

Driven by this fear, British rulers arrested Jadonang from Cachar on February 19, 1931 .

At that time, the British rulers were employing a policy of keeping the hills and valley separate so that they could suppress all the indigenous people.

Jadonang, then only 26 years old, was hung to death on the bank Nambul river near the old jail on August 29, 1931 on thew false and fabricated charges of killing Meiteis.

Even though the British or western colonial era has ended, Manipur has fallen into the hands of Indian imperialism.

Apart from enduring all the repressive measures unleashed by the Government of India, all the indigenous people are facing a grave a situation where all their identities may be lost in oblivion.

Calling upon all the people to fight against the alien rule collectively, the CorCom, on the occasion of Haipou Jadonang's death anniversary, asserted that all the indigenous communities can protect their identities and can live with dignity only When Manipur is independent.

It also conveyed solidarity to the suffering people of Manipur including the Zeliangrong people.

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