Kangleipak an occupied territory, alleges KYKL-3
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 25 2026:
Contd from previous issue
Prof Benjamin D Hopkins wrote, "....the degradation of the Native population could be considered as a historical necessity.
They (the colonized natives) had to be degraded and made to feel inferior and subservient, for otherwise they would have cast off the foreign yoke".
Just like Prof Benjamin D Hopkins said, India has been degrading the people of Manipur from 1949 onward.
Manipur which existed as a powerful, sovereign Nation in South East Asia for thousands of years and had established a democratically elected Government in 1948 was reduced to the status of a Part C State and brought under the control of a petty officer sent by the Dominion of India, read the KYKL Chairman's statement.
After years of protest and agitation, Manipur is today a full-fledged State.
Although Manipur is officially a full-fledged State, in reality, the status of Manipur has degraded even below a Part C State, Oken.
He said that elections are held and it is said that the leader of MLAs should serve as the Chief Minister but the Chief Minister is removed at the whim of New Delhi.
Unlike what is written in the Indian Constitution that the elected MLAs should appoint their leader and the Chief Minister, the Government of India has been choosing their agents as the Chief Ministers of Manipur.
In their efforts to promote and upgrade Kukis, the Government of India has been treating the post of Chief Minister like that of a peon.
While other communities are kept under the law, the Government of India has been keeping the Kukis above the law.
In the face of this reality, not a single MLA has spoken out because they have been inferiorized, Oken said.
He then questioned what all these realities imply if not colonial rule.
Suppression of economy
Subjugation of the State's economy is being employed as a part of colonial subjugation, read the KYKL Chairman's statement.
It said that all major posts like Director, Chairman, Secretary etc have been occupied by non-locals or their agents.
All major contract works have been taken by non-local companies.
Even labourers are brought from outside the State.
All big businesses have also been monopolised by non-locals.
On economic suppression of colonised people, Prof Benjamin D Hopkins said, "Dependence, in particular economic dependence, marked the foundational feature of frontier governmentality." It implies that economic dependence is the foundation of colonial rule, it said.
Earlier, almost everything that was used in daily life was produced by the individual households and very few items were purchased from the market.
But today, everything used in daily life is bought from the market.
People have changed from being producers to consumers, it said.
Now, Manipur is fully dependent economically on India, it added.
Lumpenization of people
Prof Benjamin D Hopkins wrote that it is only natural for the people of the frontier regions to go to the heartland in search of jobs or join armed forces after they are impoverished to the extreme.
This is exactly what is happening in contemporary Manipur.
The number of Manipuri people serving in the Indian armed forces and going to the heartland in search of jobs is quite large.
It is the youth from WESEA who have been guarding India in Ladakh, Bhutan-Sikkim-China border and Arunachal border.
This offers an opportunity for assimilation of the frontier people, it said.
It is now clear that the Indian empire has been using the people of Manipur as colonised and frontier people, read the statement.
It said that the objective of the Indian empire is killing the people of Manipur as many as possible and assimilating the survivors into the Indian mainstream.
It is a type of silent genocide.
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